Did you know that the Saturation adjustment is really the same as the Vibrance adjustment? Well, it is but it isn’t. In this week’s video I’ll show you how you really have a Vibrance tool where you would think it was Saturation.
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I agree, there need so be a separate slider. Although you can use color picker, sometimes I want to use a brush and work on a specific area not a specific color
Wow, what a helpful tip. Thanks for sharing this with us. Your videos ( and courses) are time and money well spent.
No matter how long you have been using LR/PS you will eventually learn something new about it. Appreciate the heads up.
Hi Matt,
I wanted to check this out for myself.
Living in Antwerp (that is in Belgium), things sometimes behave differently.
One should also be aware of plug-ins and keystrokes that might affect (cancel/multiply/change) an effect (e.g. Opal, The Fader), which is not the case here.
With the graduated filter set, dragging the Saturation to +100% indeed gives maximum Vibrance.
Dragging the Saturation to -100% gives a black and white image on my screen.
Always something interesting and useful
You always make me feel good realizing I know more about the functions of LR and PS then I think I do!
Thanks! Great video tutorials!
thank you for the video
Very interesting and helpful information, clearly explained as always. Thanks, Matt.
Fascinating tip – thank you.
Thanks Matt, for this strange information,. They really need to just add a vibrance slider. When I use a saturation slider I want it to be saturation.
Thanks, Matt. Good to know.
Thanks
Thanks Matt, much appreciate the video and learning new features in Lightroom very helpful.
ok, then in LR, with filter, the name saturation should change to vibrance above 0, and saturation below 0.
Thanks for the great info……
Thanks. This will really help me with macro photos
The mysteries of Adobe …
I don’t know who decided it should work that way, but glad to know that!
Thanks very much. I always wondered why there was only saturation in local adjustments. This helps.
I also learned from an Adobe engineer at a workshop, that in local adjustment, positive sharpness increases are based on the global sharpness already applied and negative reduces based on that global sharpening. However, at negative 50%, local sharpness becomes Gaussian blur, and can be used to defocus annoying distractions. Try it!
Cool! That’s crazy, but it works! Thanks, man, that’s useful but nuttyj!
Cant see me bothering with this.