TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Beginner

6 min

Edit and enhance the prominent colors in a scene

Use Adjust Colors to identify key image colors and modify them with precise hue, saturation, and brightness controls.

What you’ll need

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What you learned

Adjust colors directly on the image canvas

You can use Adjust Colors in the contextual task bar to quickly identify and adjust the six most prominent colors in a scene.

Refine the adjustments in the Properties panel

Adjust Colors will create a Hue Saturation adjustment layer, and you can use the controls in the Properties panel for that layer to refine how the colors are being changed.


Instruction by

Colin Smith

Adobe Stock Contributors

Ivan Kurmyshov

Darkbird

May 13, 2025

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