*PERFECT* Color Saturation EVERY time - Vibrance in Photoshop CC

[@Retset]

Loads of KZbinrs have explained the concept of your brain lying to you when doing these adjustments. Only 1 (that's you!) has shown a solution. Bravo!

[@f64Academy]

Always on the hunt for ways to explore, explain, and expedite the use of color. I LOVE it. If you told my 20 year old self that one day I'd have such a profound love for color I'd probably laugh at you... look at me now, lol

[@asharasalah]

Really it is useful technique .thank for your effort

[@f64Academy]

It's my pleasure

[@suspendedhatch]

I’ve always been pretty good at this. But as you said, you can’t trust your eyes and your brain especially when you’ve been looking at something for a long time. Now that I’ve stumbled into your video, I have a methodology and a reality check to boost my ability and confidence. Can’t wait to see what else you can teach me about color. Thank you sir!

[@f64Academy]

Absolutely true! You can never learn too much about color, trust me I learn new things EVERY day :) Appreciate the kind words. Don't be a stranger!

[@robdf9024]

Buddy that was a very satisfactory explanation. Fantastic !!! from 0 to 10? 12. I am subscribing straight away.

[@f64Academy]

Yessssss! That's what I love to hear 😁 thanks so much for showing support!

[@robdf9024]

@@f64Academy That is the minimum I could do.

[@moritzathaher]

Yes, I find best method to check saturation now, thank's Blake!

[@f64Academy]

Happy to help!

[@RyanJohnson]

New favorite channel!

[@f64Academy]

Woohoo! Thank you so much!

[@patrickmclean9663]

Another great tutorial Blake.

[@f64Academy]

Thank you!

[@reillybt]

great video Blake thanks for sharing

[@ralphmastrangelo4818]

How do you come up with this stuff?!? Brilliant! I truly believe you were a mad scientist in a prior life!!

[@f64Academy]

Haha, actually, yesterday I received an email when I woke up asking me how I can tell if saturation, which is subjective, is too much. I thought about it while making breakfast, experimented in PS for about an hour with some Blend Modes and Adjustment Layers and it just kind of happened. I ran it on about 50 images to make sure it worked on every type of photo. Then I recorded the video. So from question to completion in less than 5 hours ;) As for how I come up with it? I just experiment A LOT! I don't report to you my failures, only my successes.

[@ralphmastrangelo4818]

It’s mind boggling to me how you do this! I especially appreciate how it’s based on color theory, which is a fascinating and evolving area of study.

[@f64Academy]

@@ralphmastrangelo4818 color knowledge mixed with PS knowledge of blend modes and a hint of adjustment layers. Innovation happens out of necessity. Having the background is the base, but you have to start with the solution in mind and work backwards. That's how I achieve 90% of my techniques. I also have a lifelong goal to solve all the world problems with Color Theory in photography 🤣🤣🤣 joking, but half serious 🤣

[@MartinV.]

Great Video!

[@f64Academy]

Thank you!

[@johnmehalick]

Thanks' I have been always going to the negative side of saturation on my landscapes!

[@GusMcCrae01]

You da man!!! This is really great to know. Thnx.

[@f64Academy]

Thanks 😉 glad you liked this one!

[@davidreichel3394]

During the first half of this video, I felt like I was sitting in my graduate school 'Theory of Statistics' class - completely lost. It started to sink in and by the end, I'm going "ok" - now gotta go practice a lot! I like bright colors and tend to over-saturate. I think this technique will be very helpful.

[@f64Academy]

Yep, its confusing at first, you definitely need to experiment with it.

[@SandeepSharma-ri3bx]

Thanks for the wonderful lesson

[@f64Academy]

Anytime!

[@incorrectobydefault2392]

Really Thanks you, it's the first time I have really understood how vivrance works in Photoshop and it's very interesting

[@f64Academy]

Awesome! So glad I could help get you there!

[@grosema]

As Alway's ..... Worth the watch ....Thanks

[@ralphmastrangelo4818]

You did a great job explaining how to detect and avoid oversaturation in color images. However, in the case of the image of the building on the right at the 6:59 point, it's fairly evident the colors are already oversaturated. With that in mind, is there a way to modify this technique to correct oversaturated images such as that one?

[@f64Academy]

Yes. So if it's already over saturated, the moment you move the slider, it will start to show color, if it shows that quickly it's too saturated.

[@ralphmastrangelo4818]

Yes, that part I understand from your explanation in the video. What I’m wondering is how to modify this technique to fix an already oversaturated image. In other words, is there a way to use this technique to get the image on the right to look more like the image on the left? Perhaps after adding a vibrance layer with Difference blend mode, it might be possible to dial in negative Vibrance and/or Saturation.

[@f64Academy]

@@ralphmastrangelo4818 sure, that's possible. Use it on reverse.

[@helmutNO]

Great tip and good narration throughout the video!

[@f64Academy]

Thanks!

[@renebinder8888]

Thanks for the simple and cool technique 😀

[@sylvynhophotographer8360]

Hi Do you have any tutorial on frequency separation ?

[@f64Academy]

No, I don't really do much portrait work like that.

[@crisletourneau8049]

You, sir, are brilliant. And generous. Thank you so much.

[@f64Academy]

Aw thanks 😁 it's my sincere pleasure!

[@reenaraj2297]

You nailed it mannnn...............!

[@pauloricardoferreira2841]

Great tips, Mr. Rudis! I'll try this on my future treatments. Thanks for sharing. Best regards from Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.

[@rawalkiran1]

Love your work Bro.... You doing a great job for strugglers like me.... Helping to improve my work to attract some biz for me... God Bless 🙏🙏🙏

[@f64Academy]

Always my pleasure 😁

[@rawalkiran1]

@@f64Academy actually post Pandemic.... The biz in my area has dropped by almost 70% and competition has doubled ..

[@EdwinLewisPhotography]

Thanks Blake! Great info.

[@RoyBlackwell]

Wow! Thanks so much for your knowledge sharing. I learn a lot here.

[@f64Academy]

Glad it was helpful! It's my sincere pleasure!

[@VioNeagu]

Thank you for showing this techinque ❤

[@hectoralicea1023]

WOW! This is amazing! Great tip. I get perfect saturation every time. Your videos are amazingly useful. Thank you very much.

[@f64Academy]

Woohoo! Glad you liked it!

[@BokushingusKendoTV]

Blake! It works perfectly with curves too! I just tried it! Wow!

[@f64Academy]

Great to hear! I'll give that a try!

[@gordonkako]

Brilliant video! Really helps me sort out the issue I have been having with photos looking well saturated on the laptop and under saturated on my iPhone. The vibrance adjustment layer the solution.

[@brianbochicchio7729]

I really appreciate when you show us techniques using the tools already in PS or ACR. I struggled with this at first. But after trying it out on a few images I think I am getting it.

[@f64Academy]

It takes some practice but its useful once you get the hang of it.

[@nimmira]

As an expert 9V licker when I was a kid myself, I can confirm that it doesn't give you any super powers. However, now you've mentioned it, I wonder why people say to me I need a straight jacket now that I'm 42 *shrug* I really like your other technique which you've mentioned in one of your videos about setting the Invert layer to Color and reduce opacity to 50% to check for the saturation. This technique was useful for me in making 3d anaglyph because quite often (specially that i work in ProPhoto) the tones of red and cyan would be out of range for the anaglyph glasses.

[@f64Academy]

haha that's classic! It explains a lot about us, huh? I like that technique too, but I found it difficult to tell me how much saturation to add. That technique shows you where you may have too much saturation but this technique shows you how far you can safely take it if you aren't quite there yet.

[@iamarfanlee]

Awesome, thank you mr rudis! 😃

[@f64Academy]

No problem 👍

[@artistwithcameras]

I always learn something from Blake on every video. IMO throw in a few more ads in your videos it’s worth it.

[@m.anneblack2908]

Blake, as always, thank you for teaching in depth and detail facts and tips for dealing with color.

[@f64Academy]

My sincere pleasure!

[@rlfisher]

Masterclass. Liking the trimmed beard.

[@f64Academy]

Thanks ;)

[@mikejiang7916]

Thank you for another great session as always.

[@f64Academy]

My sincere pleasure!

[@pixelpodium]

He should be called Dr. Blake Rudis. Because this guy keeps on researching new things and somehow brings all the newest content to us. Things that no one would ever tell you even if they knew.

[@johnrhodes9341]

Great job, as usual!

[@realSonNguyen]

Thank you again for a simple but brilliant video Blake!

[@f64Academy]

My pleasure!

[@studiotjeerd4403]

In one word: superb! Love the sort of scientific approach you always bring with your videos. Thank you so much for all your time and efforts you every time puts into these videos!

[@f64Academy]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate it 😁

[@studiotjeerd4403]

@@f64Academy You're very welcome, Blake!

[@jimtipton8888]

Great technique! I followed along in Affinity and it works the same there. Thanks for the info!

[@f64Academy]

Great to hear!

[@alx7157]

Super interesting. I was way guilty of moving the saturation slider into circus (clown) vomit territory. Reformed my judgement. Thanks for showing better ways to deal. And....if photography doesn't work out for ya, I'm thinking stand up comedy.....Another awesome vid, fam.

[@f64Academy]

haha! I don't know, I love my day job :) My wife doesn't think I'm as funny as I think I am, but I'll tell her you said otherwise! I'm just glad you got something out of this one.

[@alx7157]

@@f64Academy Dig it, we're dealing with a wide humor gamut...and every band I got into, my mom would tell me "Don't quit your day job"!

[@f64Academy]

@@alx7157 that's what they're supposed to tell us 🤣

[@alx7157]

@@f64Academy Right out of the mom handbook....along with the "I will turn this car around and go back home" from the dad handbook.

[@djordjek3916]

Great technique. Thank you very much! Didn't know that. Do you maybe know if there is any technique that can produce subtractive saturation in Photoshop? I found one for Affinity Photo but none for Photoshop.

[@Jackleong29]

Brilliant. You have made something subjective objective!

[@f64Academy]

Glad you liked it!

[@brentlu373]

thanks for the new content

[@f64Academy]

Any time!

[@photorekastudio8528]

Thank you so much for your video. In the end, is it saturation or vibrance first? I did what you did (and then I flatten the image). And when I checked again to see if the color is over saturated, it was pitch black again. So how do I know how many times I have to do it to be enough?

[@ksemi]

Thank you, that's a useful way to check the saturation even if I personally prefer other methods like a selective color adjustment layer with 0% black on all the colors and 100% black on Neutrals, Blacks and Whites. I just feel it is quicker to turn it on and off without having to switch between blend modes like your method.

[@f64Academy]

Thanks for that. I just looked at it and it doesn't appear to be the same concept. It is helpful, but very different and I don't feel like it tells me as much or the same data. It actually looks like it alters the colors too which doesn't help much in determining what is saturated and not saturated. In my tests oranges confused this selective color setup, which makes it unpredictable., Also, it is a process to move all those sliders versus changing a blend mode. But, that's the beauty of Photoshop, whatever works for you :) Roll with it :)

[@ksemi]

@@f64Academy You definitely better than me with the knowledge of photoshop and the color theory so you probably right ! As you said, it worked well for me until now but I'm glad to know your technique as well and I'll try it.

[@berkletheclownsvideos2461]

Great Job on a great topic!! I definitely needed this, Thank you for doing this. I really enjoy your videos!

[@dougcaplan]

Thanks...works to perfection. But one issue I've come across. There's the issue of gamut warnings. While the image saturation & vibrance are spot on perceptually, the reality is that when you make prints it's going to look quite different from the on screen image. Some of the colors will be out of gamut. It's just a fact of life. I've calibrated my monitor to 120nits in Adobe RGB, and the final product is quite close to the on screen image. I'm not sure if you've posted any videos on monitor brightness / calibration and how it relates to a final fine art print but it might be an interesting topic.

[@pesthlm]

Thanks Blake! This blending mode; "Difference" is very underestimated and can instead be very helpful in many contexts; I myself use it to control masking and in where I place images on top of each other (photographed without a tripod) and can precision adjust their relationship via theirs contours (sometimes auto layer adjustments do not work well). I will immediately try this variant you now presented. Thanks!

[@wgiaimo]

Wow thanks

[@f64Academy]

Sure thing!

[@cesarruiz1424]

Otro excelente aporte y de gran ayuda. Muchas gracias Blake 👍

[@f64Academy]

De nada!

[@rigobertoalvaradophotography]

As always your videos are Full of great advices Thank you

[@f64Academy]

😁my pleasure!

[@Rojee4B]

Thank you, very interesting, important and useful tutorial... and very simple also once you understand what it does.

[@f64Academy]

Sweet! Glad you could put it into practice 😁

[@mordavian]

Haha!! Perfect example Blake . We all experienced this in our childhood. Great technic.

[@f64Academy]

haha! Really?!? Here I thought I was the only one ;)

[@mordavian]

@@f64Academy i assure you, you are not the only one. Duracell or Energizer 😜

[@f64Academy]

@@mordavian I prefer the zing of Energizer, but Duracell has a more refined after taste.

[@mordavian]

@@f64Academy you are a real gourmet 😜

[@bruceborrowman4342]

HI Blake: Doing up a memorial slide show and this helped me a whole lot in bringing an older scanned image back to where it needed to be. Thank you for showing this techinque.

[@rubendariozarate355]

Tenga su dedito para arriba buen hombre 👍

[@jovelinoalmeida4704]

thanks for all your great teaching, Dave if I well understood, as a matter fact this technique doesn't work with images that are over saturated; thus, how to remove the right amount of saturation ?

[@f64Academy]

Thanks! It does. Basically if you start moving the slider and see color immediately, it may be too saturated. Look at the example where I show the same image at two different saturation levels.

[@jovelinoalmeida4704]

thank you 😊

[@djking9828]

When would you suggest to use this technique in the work flow, at the end??

[@f64Academy]

Good question. Wherever you tend to second guess yourself about saturation. So anywhere is good.

[@carlrichards9011]

Thanks, Blake. I tried this technique, thinking that I could test some of my old images for over saturation. What I found was that since the base colors of those images were the same as the blend colors at the start of the test, adjusting the vibrance sliders to the right only tested whether adding more saturation was departing too much from their original saturation status. But with those images that were oversaturated in the first place, it didn't tell me whether or how much their original colors were oversaturated. Is there a way to test whether older images are oversaturated, or am I doing something wrong?

[@f64Academy]

Yep, it's supposed to be that way. In the example, I showed in the video I had the same image shown, one oversaturated and the other under. I ran the technique and you see that both are black, however, what you see as I move the sat slider is that the over-saturated one shows color through immediately while the under saturated one still needs more. It will always be black from the beginning because you are essentially starting the base off the same way, but it's the amount that you move it that really shows how far you can take it. If color immediately shows with slight slider movements, it's too much saturation.

[@carlrichards9011]

@@f64Academy Got it. Thanks. Very clever and will be helpful.

[@dmitripopov8570]

Thank you!

[@EduardoAgustin88]

This was such a fantastic watch!! Thank you so much for explaining it in such a thorough and entertaining way! I'm understanding more and more how essential good color balance is to the overall aesthetic of my photography. I sincerely appreciate your videos!

[@colinweir5807]

Having three older brothers the 9v battery test was used often. Another great video, thank you. Enjoyed the P.S. Summit 4

[@f64Academy]

Oh gosh! One older brother was enough for me 🤣

[@Chrisdgallego]

I'm gonna give it a try. I need this kind of techniques because I'm color blind and cannot trust in my eyes. Thanks

[@f64Academy]

Oooh, that may actually be a great application for this, especially because all the colors are inverted so red/green deficiency shouldn't be an issue, if at least an issue you may be able to work around. I'd love to hear if it helps

[@trwhitford65]

I had a dream that you were my high school English teacher and you gave us an assignment to answer 12 questions. I got to number 8 before I woke up. It was fun. Thanks.........

[@f64Academy]

Haha! Fun fact: Before pursuing Fine Art as my degree, I was working on an English teaching degree 😉 kinda weird, maybe you stepped into a parallel universe!

[@trwhitford65]

@@f64Academy In my dream I got to kiss a girl from my youth that I had never kissed.

[@santhoshpaalvai8091]

Is there any similar technique for highlights and shadows ?

[@f64Academy]

Kind of, but they are treated differently. Check this one out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIWsnXWAabaeecU

[@DCW96161]

Thank you for this. It’s going to take some fiddling before it feels right. If it’s possible, I may have an even greater aversion to “circus vomit” than you so on a couple of examples I’ve worked on, it’s still a bit much for me.

[@f64Academy]

Haha, no worries! Different strokes for different folks 😁

[@DCW96161]

@@f64Academy But I'm confused about one thing: How to correct something that is ALREADY overcooked? In your example of the Beringer Winery, the version on the right is already too hot. Your trick works to keep it from getting hotter, but is there a good rule of thumb for detecting when it's already overdone and how to back it off appropriately? I may be missing something in the technique. Ah...But you may have answered my Q in a different post below. I guess when the colors pop fast right out of the chute, it's probably already overdone.

[@f64Academy]

@@DCW96161 yep that's correct. So if you see color immediately it's probably a little over cooked.

[@rolsonn]

Thanks for the tutorial! My question, where did you find a 9 volt battery because they're difficult to find?

[@f64Academy]

Haha, probably Amazon? Maybe CVS? My wife bought them for the smoke alarms the other day, so technically I found them in the pantry.

[@studiophotoshop7846]

Perfeito. Importante vídeo. Thank you.

[@vernonr7404]

Practising your technique. Particularly with a Portrait (skin), is it better to nudge the Saturation slider up first, or the Vibrance slider? Or does it matter?

[@f64Academy]

With a portrait I'd say vibrance first as it works a bit slower especially on skin tones

[@vernonr7404]

@@f64Academy Thank you. I will.

[@kenfournelle5517]

Very interesting and useful. But what about using the Vibrance in ACR or Lightroom. There is no way to use blend modes in those programs.

[@f64Academy]

That is correct. This is only for Photoshop.

[@tukor]

Thanks, i love your tutos... however i have the following question. How do i apply this to know if my photo is already over saturated? I mean... i can do this, just crank up those sliders till colors start to show and stop then. But then, i could do the process again and again and it would do the same (it also would start at black and colors would show at the same stages). What i mean is, if you already have an oversaturated image... well this method does not show me that. (i dont have the licking 9v superpower). Not trying to be rude, just trying to understand it!

[@f64Academy]

I get it. It does show you that. So as soon as you start moving the color sliders, you'll see color poke through if it's already over saturated. Look at the example I showed of the same image, one was over saturated the other under saturated. You could tell as soon as I started moving the saturation slider, those colors popped through the black. That tells you it's over saturated.

[@SinaFarhat]

Interesting! :) I can see myself using this method to edit a photo so that it makes the photo work when printing it out as paper and ink has a limited ability to produce certain level of saturation.

[@f64Academy]

Very true! This is a great method for the pre-print process

[@jfranciskay]

Nice technique Blake. You always come up with some clever stuff. I found it a little easier to first bump up the Saturation slider so that I could just see the change, then add vibrance until the under saturated colors matched the saturated colors. I found it easier to balance the image this way. Then I could just go back to Normal layer mode and adjust saturation to taste. Now if you could come up with a similar method for Contrast....

[@carlmarch603]

Hi Blake - very useful. Could this be used with the Calibration setting in ACR? Your videos got me going there first to check how the colors look, but I find myself struggling to know when I've tweaked things too far. Thanks, as always, for your videos and courses on YT and f64 Academy Elite...

[@f64Academy]

Thanks so much Carl! As for your question, not really. Calibration is completely separate from this and you wouldn't be able to use this technique to see if your calibration of colors is good or not. Two separate places for assessing color and unfortunately, you can't make a profile for this method to use in ACR or Lightroom.

[@marceloebaniph]

Sensacional! Parabéns!!

[@theprotagonist5938]

Genius 🙏🏿

[@SemPixels]

Oh my God. You’ve saved me 😅😅😅😅😅.

[@f64Academy]

Woohoo! 😁

[@marcelofarah8657]

Is there any advantage between this method and the one you explained with inverted layers? I think both methods are for the same purpose.

[@f64Academy]

This one is more accurate in pushing the saturation when you are unsure of how far to go. The other is more for out of gamut colors.

[@craigc7708]

Wasn’t the photo of the building on the right oversaturated to begin with?

[@f64Academy]

Yes it's supposed to be for demo purposes.

[@roni05448]

Perfeto

[@joelwexler]

You're so g damned smart it's almost annoying. And I studied quantum. Thanks for this most useful algorithm.

[@_trismegistus]

You're like the Marco Bucci of photography.

[@f64Academy]

That's cool! I'll have to Google him 😁

[@_trismegistus]

@@f64Academy He's got a popular KZbin channel and goes over a lot of painting application and theory of color, things like that. Has a very similar presentation style, and even voice, to you!

[@apeel2008]

LOL. I am 70 years old, and to this day I still use my tongue to ‘measure’ how much battery life is still available in my fire alarm batteries. No need to bring out a voltmeter!

[@f64Academy]

That is awesome! Right on!

[@m.l.703]

As always,good job! 1 question: why back to normal and not to the color blending mode? ✌️

[@f64Academy]

You could do either really. Color Blend Mode will only apply the color, normal will come with a slight brightness boost due to the increase in saturation, but the difference is negligible since we aren't adding a ton of brightness with the adjustment. Try either, some images may benefit from color vs normal.

[@trout3212001]

Thanks for the great video. I hope your brother didn't get to pee on a lawn mower sparkplug!

[@f64Academy]

haha, sounds like something I should dare him to do ;) We did put the dog's shock collar on once and run through the yard, THAT was fun!

[@iphoneography]

Circus vomit status; Prevented.

[@f64Academy]

Yessss!

[@butchgo5346]

The battery tasting test is much easier to do.

[@Kresho.]

[@djking9828]

😄🙏🍻

[@f64Academy]

💪😁👍