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Adjusting Saturation in the Image
You can change the value for the Saturation parameter to either give your image an extra burst
of color or tone down the color palette by desaturating the image.
Before Saturation adjustment After Saturation adjustment
Important: Increasing the saturation of an image can make the colors appear more pure, and
many people like the eect of an image whose colors are more saturated than they would
appear naturally. However, you can easily oversaturate an image. In the process of making the
colors more pure, subtleties in shades of colors disappear, often resulting in reduced detail in
the image. To ensure that visual elements aren’t unnecessarily lost, pay attention to the details in
your image as you increase saturation.
To change the saturation of an image
1 Select a photo.
2 In the Enhance area of the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD,
adjust the Saturation parameter by doing one of the following:
•
Drag the Saturation slider.
•
Click the left or right arrow in the Saturation value slider to change the saturation of the image
by 5 percent increments, or drag in the value eld.
•
Double-click the number in the Saturation value slider, then enter a value from 0.0 to 4.0 and
press Return.
Use the Saturation slider
and value slider to adjust
the saturation of colors
in the photo.
A value below 1.0 decreases the color saturation in the image, and a value above 1.0 increases
the saturation. A value of 0.0 removes all color from the image, making it grayscale. A value of 4.0
increases the saturation by 400 percent.
The saturation of the image is updated as you change the parameter value.