Hi everyone, in this video we are going to look at vibrance versus saturation...

they both do a similar job, and they both lift colors up...

but they do it in different ways...

and let's see which of them is better, subtle Dan.

All right, it's a new day, maybe not for you, but for me it is...

you can tell, caffeined up, ready to go...

I'm going to show you a different way to import images...

well, we've discussed it, but I wanted to start using...

mixing it up a little bit so you can get a feel for which you enjoy the most.

I'm going to use the shortcut...

we're going to hit 'Command Shift I' on a Mac to import our image...

on a PC it's 'Ctrl Shift I', so tap that, it might be the one for you...

let's bring in 13, 14, and 15.

So we've got these three, bring them in, the one I want to start with...

is this DJ set here, so have that selected, hit 'D', hit 'G'...

no, not G, sorry, 'D' to bring it up, and then 'E' for editing settings...

and close down light if it's open...

we're just going to work on color, and vibrance versus saturation...

so to explain it, actually, just show us...

let's keep an eye on this orange wrapper thing here...

if I go saturation up, can you see, it just goes a bit mad and gets over saturated...

so reset, drag it up, it just gets all blown out and gross.

So let's look at that compared to vibrance...

so vibrance, all the way up, oh, can you see this...

that was already saturated, got mostly left alone...

and everything that was kind of a little bit saturated...

got raised up to join his bright orange friend...

so it looks after the ones that are already saturated...

and brings up those lower ones to meet it...

you very rarely would go full vibrance...

I guess it's just an example, but you get the idea, right?

I'm going to reset it, let's look at saturation all the way up...

so I'm going to use my '\' key, before, after, before, after...

you can see, it works, saturation is great, it's bringing up all this..

but it's also wrecking this, so I'm going to reset it...

and vibrance all the way up, on, off, on, off...

you'll notice that this stays fine but all of these come up as well...

so that's the secret recipe, just don't use saturation, use vibrance...

I never use saturation, there you go, I said it, sorry, saturation...

but vibrance does a better job in almost all cases.

What it's also really good at is protecting skin tones...

so again, saturation all the way up, see his skin went orange...

because it's kind of, just went orange, everybody...

everyone get brighter or more saturated, I don't care what you are...

and skin just gets dragged up...

and you end up with like pink skin and orange skin, and sunburnt skin.

So let's reset it again, and vibrance, watch what happens...

oh, like it fills out a little bit, the skin just gets a little bit fuller...

but there's some amazing goodness going on...

inside of that vibrance technology that protects skin tones...

and doesn't drag them up...

dragged up this kind of like stained glass stuff here at the back...

whatever that is, but protects the skin tone.

So you'll never drag it all the way up, you end up...

you know, my rule, just to pass on my rules to you...

is I drag this up, so I'm going to start at the beginning, I'll drag this up...

looking at it, and I'm going too far...

I find where I want this to be, and then I'll drag it back a little bit...

because I know through experience that wherever I get it...

I'm like, "Okay, perfect," I'll go away, come back...

and go, whoa, way too much vibrance.

So what I do is, you know, kind of, I don't know, cut to the chase...

and go, yeah, perfect, back a little bit...

so even now that's probably a bit too much, there we go.

So yeah, don't overcook the vibrance, or at least overcook it...

until you work out your own kind of calibration...

of how much vibrance is good for you.

I've got this example in here mainly to show you that sometimes...

it doesn't matter, like saturation all the way up...

is actually quite nice in this image...

and it's not much difference from vibrance, there is differences...

but there are times where actually...

vibrance and saturation do a very similar job...

it's when you've got clearer skin tones...

hers has quite got an orange cast on there as well...

but that's from lights behind her...

but sometimes it does do a very similar job, let's look at this one here.

So I'm on this one, these first two are just jpegs...

and the second one here is a raw image...

and I'm going to show you a couple of things that might happen to you...

so I'm going to hit 'Auto', did you notice, vibrance just went up...

first of all, auto, we've learned in an earlier class, does these things...

does the exposure, contrast, highlights...

so I'm going to undo, so that's what it does...

but it also does a tiny bit in color, and often it's vibrance...

why?, because raw images have a tendency, as they are shot...

to be a little washed out, not washed out in terms of color...

it tends to be muted because they're trying to...

like capture all sorts of color data that you can adjust later on...

they end up looking a little bit flat...

so Lightroom goes, hey, that's always the case...

as part of auto, let's bump up vibrance.

So you might notice that sometimes vibrance is already bumped up...

and you're like, "Why is that?," it's because you've used the auto setting...

and so my auto got me close, let me go through this...

I'll just zoom, and I just want to fix the image a little bit more.

Okay, fixed it, I'm doing air quotes, so I've got it how I want...

now with vibrance, watch this, if I...

well, a good example is saturation, watch her skin here...

so let's zoom in on it, who remembers the Zoom tool?

Hold down the 'Command' key on a Mac, 'Ctrl' key on PC...

and drag a box around where you want to go...

saturation is going to push your skin way too far...

and make a kind of red and magenta, but if I do vibrance...

can you see, it's still doing stuff, like it's still affecting the skin...

but it's protecting it a lot more, and you'd never jump it all the way up...

because that's just too far, let's have a look...

zoom all the way out, just click it once, and let's have a look at vibrance...

look, it's doing everything else, it's kind of awesome, too far...

but there are so many cool colors going on in this...

and if it does start affecting the skin all the way...

say you want it like this, is affecting the skin...

later in the course we'll do a mask to protect her specifically...

but for the moment let's just drag it up, so it's not affecting her skin...

but it's doing some nice stuff to the background, so before, after...

oh, look at all that good color information that was hidden there...

hidden, close to the sky.

All right, that's about all I've got to share...

saturation, you can drag it down, I allow you to drag it down...

I said, don't use it, you can drag it down, that's fine...

it gives you a black and white, but it's not really a good black and white...

there are some amazing ways to make black and white images...

which we'll do in the color grading part of this course...

so save yourself for that, don't use saturation for that...

but you can sometimes just knock down saturation...

if you want everything to come down a little bit, it's fine...

it's probably still better

All right, that is it, vibrance versus saturation...

use vibrance, use it sparingly...

and I'll see you in the next video.