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Saturation adjustment
Changing the intnsity of colour in your images.
The techniques
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Sometimes the colour in an image is too strong or weak for the picture we want to create. The sunset picture here does not have the deep colours that I saw. This is almost certainly due to the auto white balance feature of the camera, which has attempted to produce a more 'neutral' feel.
Open the image Saturation.jpg
Rotate and Zoom out to view the whole picture.
We need a new adjustment layer for the colour
Raising the saturation brings the colours more up to how you might remember them.
You might wish to add a levels layer to further enhance the image.
A simple adjustment to the colour saturation gives a much more faithful rendition. Since we have used a layer, we could also include a levels adjustment layer, and tweak both to get the image how we want.
The techniques
The sample images for these tutorials are available for download as a zipped folder.
Please note. The images in this tutorial section are for personal non commercial teaching use only. If you are a school or other public educational establishment, you may use them as long as you inform Northlight Images of the use. They may not be used in -any- other way without the express consent of Northlight Images - see our usage and copyright page for more information.
Feedback is always welcome! ---
Northlight Images also provides commercial photography training courses for businesses, including specialist Photography training for Estate Agents and for Product Photography.
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