The Quick Fix - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 204

Whatever the case, the sliders in the Color section are for you (you can click preset thumb-
nails, too). Just click the appropriate tab near the top of the section:
▪ Saturation controls the intensity of the image's color. For example, you can turn a color
photo to black and white by moving this slider all the way to the left. Move it too far to
the right and everything glows with so much color that your photo looks radioactive.
▪ Hue changes the color in an image from, say, red to blue or green. If you aren't aiming
for realism, you can have fun using this slider to create funky color changes.
▪ Vibrance used to be available only in the Raw Converter (see Chapter 8 ) , but it's such a
useful tool that Adobe added it to Quick Fix, too. While Saturation adjusts all colors
equally, the Vibrance slider is much smarter: It increases the intensity of the duller colors
while holding back on colors that are already so vivid they may oversaturate. If you want
to make colors pop, try this slider.
You probably won't use all three sliders on a single photo, but you can if you like. To fine-
tune the color, you may want to move on to the next panel: Balance. In fact, in many cases
you'll need only the Balance fixes.
Balancing Color
Photos often have the right amount of saturation, but suppose there's something about the
color balance that just isn't right, and moving the Color section's Hue slider (described
above) makes everything look funky. Fortunately, the Adjustments panel's Balance section
contains two very useful tabs for adjusting the overall colors in an image:
▪ Temperature lets you adjust colors from cool (bluish) to warm (orangeish). Use this
slider for things like toning down the warm glow you see in photos taken in tungsten
lighting, or just for fine-tuning color balance.
▪ Tint adjusts the green/magenta balance of a photo, as shown in Figure 4-11 .