Hello everyone this is Jen from Olde Tinkerers Studio. Today I'm just
going to do a quick Photoshop tutorial on hue and saturation Now first let's
define what hue and saturation. Hue refers to a color without tint, that is
added white or shade which is added black. Hue permits colors to be classified as red,
yellow, green, blue, or an intermediate between any contiguous pair of these
colors. Saturation is the degree of a chroma or purity of a color – that is – the
the degree of freedom from being mixed with white. Saturation defines a range in
color from pure color 100% to gray, or 0%, at a constant lightness level. Pure colors are
fully saturated. To find the Hue/Saturation window in Photoshop you can
do one of three things: 1. you can go to Image, Adjustments, Hue and Saturation or
2. you can use the hue and saturation icon on the side panel or 3. you can use the keyboard
shortcut Ctrl + U for Windows or CMD + U on a Mac. You can use the
sliders to change how the entire image looks. If you have this set to Master you
can change your Hues, you can change your Saturation, even change your
lightness levels. You can also change specific parts of the image by changing
from Master to any of these colors.
Let's go ahead and check red since the mailbox is actually red and it's only
going to change that part that is actually red. Now you can select any color that you
want that is listed under here and you can change any portion the image.
If there is actually not a color available, for example if there were purple in
the picture you could just choose something like a magenta and then click on the
image with your eye dropper to get that particular color. Changing something like the
leaves is a little more tricky because the leaves aren't completely green. There's like
yellows there's reds there's browns; there's a lot of different colors in there. So
if you want to actually change the leaves what you can do change this drop-down,
go to greens. You can start changing it. Let's say we want to changes to sort of a black-and-white
kind of thing and as you can see some of the leaves are changing but some of them
are not changing. So what do you do in this kind of situation? In this case you can make
use of the Eyedropper Tool. Make sure that you are set on green and you can use the
eyedropper as additive - the eyedropper with a little plus symbol - and then you
can go ahead and sample more of the colors. As I do this watch this rainbow
down at the bottom and you see it expands when I use the Eyedropper Tool.
If you are satisfied with what you have, this this looks like its pretty good,
looks like all the leaves are pretty much covered - you can use the sliders to
change the hue and saturation of the leaves to your heart's content and you can do the
same thing if you want to change the mailbox. I'll change this to red since this
mailbox is red and we can change the color. We can go for a bit more of a gold
color and brighten it up a little bit. And that in a nutshell is how you use the hue and
saturation to change the variables and the colors and saturation on any
individual or multiple photographs that you have. I hope this was useful have a good day!