Key concept: Saturation & Desaturation
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Saturation & Desaturation
Saturation makes colors more vivid (less black or white added). Desaturation makes colors more muted (more black or white added).
Original color image (left). The desaturated version (center) has no color. In the oversaturated version (right), tonal detail is lost.
Photoshop tools
Lightroom tools
Related concepts
- Adjustment layer
- Color cast
- Contrast
- Exposure
- Filter
- Grayscale
- Highlight & Shadow
- Lighten
- Sepia tone
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