The Best Technique to Enhance Saturation

Step 12

Make sure that you have the layer mask for the layer group selected. Click on the layer mask with the black thumbnail in the Layers palette to select it. Then, select the brush tool from the toolbar and set the hardness to 0%. This will adjust the brush so that it has a very soft edge.

Remember in the previous step when we asked you to decide which areas look better with the Hue/Saturation technique? Paint those areas with the brush tool. You can quickly increase or decrease the brush size by pressing the “[" or "]” keys on your keyboard.

Final Results

Here are the final results comparing the original image and three different saturation increasing techniques. The Photoshop technique used in this Photoshop tutorial uses both the Hue/Saturation and LAB Color techniques. It also uses an adaptive saturation technique to restore details that can be hidden if the saturation is too high.

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