Sometimes we need to make the color of the photo bright and shock the viewer's eyeballs, and sometimes we need to understate and express our mood with faded bleakness. When retouching pictures, how to convert adjectives such as "beautiful" and "bleak" into adjustment methods is what you need to consider! Today I will tell you about the last two sliders in the basic panel: vibrancy , saturation .
1 Overview
Location: bottom of the basic panel
Function: Increase/decrease the vividness of photo colors
My software version: Camera Raw 9.2
2. Function details
2.1 Saturation
This slider is at the bottom of the Basic panel, but we'll cover it first because it's easier to understand. This slider controls the vividness of all colors in the photo. When I swipe it to the right, all the colors in the photo will be equally brightened, and the degree of vividness will be the same.
The picture on the left shows a saturation of 0, and the picture on the right shows +100. The color of the road is enhanced, but the vividness is still much worse than that of the orange pillars.
What needs to be emphasized here is that where the original color performance is relatively weak, after increasing the saturation, it still belongs to the weak color performance area in the picture. When I lower the saturation to -100, the picture becomes black and white and all colors disappear.
The picture on the left is Saturation -100. At this time, all the colors in the photo are removed, and the photo becomes black and white. The saturation value of the picture on the right is 0, for comparison.
2.2 Vibrance
When you understand saturation, on the basis of it, I will talk about vibrancy. Different from the "saturation" that "treats everyone equally", vibrancy will detect the vividness of the colors in the picture, and try to make the vividness of all the colors in the photo tend to be consistent. When adjusting positively, vibrancy will give priority to increasing the color of the light The brilliance of the area will be greatly increased.
The natural saturation of the left picture is 0, and the right picture is +100. It can be clearly seen in the right picture that the color of the ground was originally relatively light, but now the saturation has been greatly improved, while the saturation of the already bright pillars has not been improved. too much.
When you reduce the Vibrance to -100, you will find that the photo is not completely decolorized, but will retain a lot of color - the original light color will be decolorized, while the color of the strong color area will be preserved.
The picture on the left shows that the natural saturation has dropped to -100. You can see that the photo has not turned into black and white, and the original conspicuous color remains.
Compared with saturation, natural saturation is smarter, it will protect the yellow and green areas, that is, when you change the value greatly, the yellow brightness will not be increased too much, thus protecting the character's skin , the performance of areas such as green leaves in the scenery.
The saturation of the left image is +100, it will increase the vividness of all areas; the right image is the natural saturation +100, and the color of the character's skin will be preserved.
The saturation of the left picture is +100, and the improvement of green is obvious. The right picture shows the natural saturation of +100, and the improvement of green is not as "violent" as the saturation.
3. Effect PK
(Vibrance will preserve yellow/green areas and not oversaturate)
4. Precautions
4.1 Adjustment range
No matter which slider it is, do not over-adjust it, especially when increasing the value! Because if the saturation is too high, it may cause unrealistic colors, unnatural transitions, loss of detail, etc. Even smarter vibrance can't be boosted too much.
4.2 Use together
Vibrance will optimize the photo according to the saturation of the picture, so you can adjust the saturation first, then adjust the vibrancy, and use them together to get the effect you want most.