Thank you for taking the time to develop and publish this tutorial. Extremely helpful, great use of visual aids. Sound was great and clearly communicated. Thank you, again.

Great explanation. I often use these two but had no clue as to their difference. I just pushed the sliders around until I got something I liked, but now I will be pushing them with purpose.

This opens up some new opportunities for me to get creative. Didn't think about using them together. I often use the vibrance but rarely the saturation.

Thank you Colin. I have experimented by using both the sliders and have found the technique very useful.

Thank you Colin. You have put a whole new spin on how to use these sliders by showing the How and the Why of how these sliders work together. I prefer this type of presentation. I lose the plot with large workflows and can't remember half of what is happening. Can you do more shot presentations like this.

Perfect explanation! Learned something new. Always used vibrance but not in conjunction with saturation. Thank you!

Very useful. I have tended to use the vibrance slider but not the saturation one but using them together like this opens up a greater control

Thanks for an exceptionally well-produced and helpful video. I'm an instant new fan.

Very informative. I will keep this in mind the next time I am working on photos.

Very clear explanation, thanks!

Great straight forward tips

Thanks it is very clear now , excellent explanations as usual!

I really appreciate your tutorials. Always very helpful!!

Oui, j'ai beaucoup appris ! Merci Colin

Great explanation of great tool. Thanks.

I used them both, but slipped mink so long until the picture looked nice. I just wasn't sure what it was differentiating. Now that I know that saturation is actually a volume knob and vibrance the more refined tuning, I can play with it even more consciously.

For the past several years, I’ve used the same technique of using both sliders as partners. Great explanation of differences! Oh, and, as a sailor, I’ve never heard “boys”. But maybe I’ve never sailed those waters.

This is a great video. I do like vibrancy better than the saturation but I could not really put my finger on why. Now I will actually use the two sliders differently. Thank you

very useful, thank you!

Super useful, thanks!

I knew the difference between the two, but never realized the creative possibilities of using them together

This is all learning curves. So nice to see what one can do effortlessly. Thank you once more and Happy New Year to you. Can you please do a tutorial on creating mock ups for books using photoshop? I would love that. Thanks again for all you give, give and give again. You are just like your Father...

Yes I learned something, I always wondered what the difference was and how to use them. thank you

I generally use Vibrance more and then pull back just a little on Saturation to address any areas of oversaturation, but thanks for explaining so clearly how the two interact. Vibrance is so much better for people photographs.

Colin, this was very, very helpful. Until now I never knew the useful difference between vibrance and saturation. On another note, since many of the tools in PS have changed over the last few years, how about a refresher course on these revised tools "best practices" use?

Thank U Soooooo Much !!!

This Very Informative, as long as i'm trying to work this out its the first time ive seen it explained so simply thank you so much your tutorials are so good really appreciate them.

Hi Colin... I never thought of using the two in conjunction with each other. Learned something new! Thanks as always!

Opens up another avenue of creativity, thanks!

Great! Learned something new. Thanks, Colin!

And, don't forget to capitalize on theVibrance/Satur adjustment layer when you wish to apply increased saturation to specific areas using a layer mask. A great way to leave out potential areas of clipping.

Learnt something new with the sliders thanks.

This is how I first learnt about Vibrance and Saturation in PS6: Vibrance means "vibrance" so it adds more vibrance to an image. Saturation means "saturation" so it saturates the image. :P As a PS user, I will also never use general sliders when I want to edit specific areas. That's what "colour range" and "feather" and "layer" is for. This is a good video, I just don't agree with the buoys as an example, and the explanation was fine/good metaphors, but personally found it redundant. Vibrance means a richer variety of colours and that's why the function is named like that. Saturation means how much of something there is (or the intensity of it), in this case colour, hence the name for it. Vibrance and saturation can be used together as general sliders at once to create artistic images where realism is of less importance or you want to artistically emphasize something. Pictures taken with low illumination or wrong shutter times and/or ISO will not only lose details but also colour details. Vibrance in these cases might yield a worse result than saturation, since it will differentiate colours that really should be the same colours, in the same area, due to low light and artifacting. In these cases saturation is better, or using manual adjustments to hues and colours and a good denoiser. Can finish off with vibrance/saturation. In overexposed images, vibrance may be more important, and might have to be slid up together with vibrance, while lowering gamma and/or brightness. While if you try to repair a poorly filtered image (like the ones on smartphones or that people buy for 5-10 euros thinking it's great) you may only need the saturation slider then maybe vibrance slightly after that after denoising and manually adjusting levels.

As always, thanks for the insights.

thanks. well explained . bravo

Thanks. Very helpful! Merry Christmas! Before the video, I avoided to touch the saturation slider.

This was great! I've often been faced with my 5DMKiV tendency to saturate reds under some conditions.

Same of comment bellow....I had no clue. Thanks.

Excellent explanation, very clearly demonstrated :)

happy holydays see u in 2021 in good health !!!

Very informative video as ever. Thanks for that. However I am curious to know how this technique can be used in Fashion photography editing for better result. Can you please through some light on this. More importantly how we can enhance the colour of the clothing without disturbing skin tones.

Thank You, I also thought vibrance was a way to turn up color saturation on peoples skin, without blowing their skin tones out.

Generally I have been bumping up both vibrance and saturation, but I didn't know about bumping them down.

thanks, very nice video. I've always used them, but really it has been a guess and check. It's remarkable what you don't know until you know! When you say the buoys clip when the red gets too saturated, how do you know that? The histogram appeared ok in your video there (at 1:30).

How can you not learn anything ?? Thanks for sharing your wisdom

I never saw a video from you without learning something, even when the subject is something i known there´s always a tip, or a different (faster) way to do it. Sometimes, I wish you explain it Less (lol) but i understand that not everyone is on the same level, and you have to explain it "from zero". Nevertheless keep it up and thank you very much for all.

I shoot with Olympus and the images are more saturated than other cameras. So I've always have a preset to reduce saturation and increase vibrance. And I was told that increasing vibrance protects the hues for faces, thus reds, oranges and parts of yellow are protected more with vibrance. Nice explanation/tutorial and am I correct with my thinking?

New info

I have also heard it said that vibrance doesnt affect skin colors as strongly as saturation. That doesnt seem to be related to being near or at maximum saturation. Is this incorrect or a myth or maybe for older versions of photoshop?

Hey Colin what's the difference between saturation in hue\saturation adjustment and saturation in vibrance adjustment ?

Thank you, very intersting. Question : Do you know the difference between Texture and Clarity ? Do you know a website explaining in details how algorytms works ? I heard that Vibrance detect orange/pink color of skin, is it true ?

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I learned that some people call them "boo-ies". Only ever heard 'boys' in Britain. I'll admit I did know what they did, but I watched knowing this would be a good explanation of it.

Am I the only one who noticed a color temp of 24000K? Haha

U South African Colin?

Said absolutely nothing about the difference between the two. Fake title.

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