Operation Manual

Working with the Vibrancy Quick Brush Controls
You use the Vibrancy Quick Brush adjustment to add saturation to desaturated colors
only in the area of the image the adjustment is brushed on. Skin tones are not affected.
Before Vibrancy adjustment After Vibrancy adjustment
(added saturation to desaturated colors in the
green wave)
To brush the Vibrancy adjustment on an image
1 Select an image.
2 Do one of the following:
• In the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD, choose
Quick Brushes > Vibrancy from the Adjustments pop-up menu.
• In the tool strip, choose Vibrancy from the Quick Brush pop-up menu (with a brush
icon).
The Vibrancy Brush HUD appears, and the Vibrancy adjustment controls appear in the
Adjustments inspector and the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD, if both are shown.
3 Specify the brush stroke settings using the controls in the Vibrancy Brush HUD.
For more information about the controls in the Brush HUD, see Controls in the Brush
HUD. For more information about applying brush strokes to an image, see Working with
Brushes.
4 Brush the adjustment on the area of the image where you want to add saturation to
desaturated colors only.
The saturation of the desaturated colors is changed in the area of the image where the
Vibrancy Quick Brush adjustment is applied.
To modify the Vibrancy adjustment after it has been applied to an image
1 Select an image with the Vibrancy adjustment applied to it.
618 Chapter 18 Making Brushed Adjustments