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Adobe Photoshop Tutorial – What is the Difference Between Vibrance and Saturation?
This Adobe Photoshop Tutorial is on the difference between editing images with Vibrance and Saturation. At the core, Saturation affects ALL colors, and Vibrance affects the WEAKEST colors.
Basically, Vibrance has only two options, vibrance and saturation. Which is just funny to me, that it needs to add the 20 year old tool, just to make itself useful. But, like I said, follow my advice, and you will see that saturation is really the only true option for Adobe Photoshop. Because the vibrance palette is weak with only one real option, your color control is almost non-existant. Since the Saturation palette has a ton more options, I strongly recommend staying with that.
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lol, no, vibrance is really usefull, you cannot do everything with selective saturation adjustments, for example you have some oversaturated blue parts in parts of image but also some undersaturated blue parts which you want to boost without affecting those oversaturated parts, you cant do that with just selective adjustments without using masks and other techniques (blending for adjustment layers for example)
Yes, I do agree. Since I made the video a year ago, I have encountered several images that benefited from Vibrance as opposed to Saturation. As I covered how both are used in the video, I think we can leave it up to the user to make the determination for themselves, which one to use. For what it’s worth, I find more benefit in using Vibrance during RAW Processing, than I do in Photoshop.