Photoshop Vibrance, Saturation, Color Intensity

This is a test I did to compare various color tools in Photoshop.

Here are the test results.

First of all there is the whole frame optimised at ‘normal’.

Then there is a series of crops from the left side of the frame. I chose that part because it has some natural and man-made parts and covers the color spectrum.

Also, as well as covering the blue road sign, the greenery, and the reddish-orange brickwork, it includes a part of the white-fronted building.

I’ve included a crop with maximum Saturation to complete the set.

This is not the Saturation slider that you will find in Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation.

It is the Saturation tool that is in Image > Adjust > Vibrance, which brings up the Vibrance tool and a Saturation tool.

Conclusion

The thing that stands out for me is that the Color Intensity tool has brought out the color that is hidden in the cottage wall.

Sometimes that will be desirable, and at other times it will not.

Tagged as: color intensity, Photoshop, Saturation, Vibrance