Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:09 am Post subject: Saturating saturated areas/desaturating desaturated areas
Hi there. If you dont want to read everything, I'll make the important parts bold
When I edit photographs of mine, I basically manually saturate colorful parts of a picture, and desaturate already pretty desaturated parts, to make colours pop more.
But I've done this alot lately, and I've gotten pretty sick of manually doing this, so I've been searching around for a technique to do this "automatically", but with no results.
Is there any way you can get some sort of grayscale map of the saturation values of a picture, or select by saturation, to easily do this effect I want, or any other way?
I've tried several methods, and none of them have worked as I wanted them to, and they were certainly not quick and easy methods either. I usually don't make this effect very visible, but it's always there, so It's kinda exhausting making alot of effort for so little.
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:57 am Post subject:
Hi Quackles,
The way I use, is to go with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, then select the color channel you want to affect (click on the "Master" drop down box and select one of the 6 color channels that make up your image).
Thanks for the tips!
But I'm not sure if this was what I was looking for.
I'll look more into luminance masks when I get the time though. The shortcut didnt work at all for me though, when am I supposed to use that?
Just to make it clearer; what I basically want is pure global saturation data(preferably in a greyscale map), for all colours combined, and no matter how bright or dark the colours are.
If I want just want one colour to pop more than others, I know how to do it quite easily, but when I want the whole picture saturated, except for the parts that are quite desaturated, which I want desaturated further, that's when it gets a bit more difficult.. hard to explain I guess
But keep the tips coming, never hurts to try them out.
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