User manual

20 • Saturation (color intensity)

ColorQuartet 5.0 Pro

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Manually changing an automatic or semi-automatic saturation adjustment

If the image shown in the feedback window after using automatic or semi-automatic saturation

adjustment is not the way you want it, you can readjust it manually:

1 • Undo the automatic or semi-automatic saturation adjustment:

2 • If the Saturation window is not already open, open it from the Color menu or tool bar.

3 • Adjust the saturation as desired, as explained under A

djusting saturation manually. You

can also try the effect of setting the Guide menu at different levels.

4 • Click on OK in the Saturation window or open another color tool.

How to keep gradation changes from affecting the saturation

When a gradation curve is used to lighten an image, strong colors will tend to become washed

out.

• ColorQuartet’s Gradation window has a Saturation Limit function that compensates for this by

ensuring that colors above a given chroma value (color intensity) are not affected by the gra-

dation curve. It should normally be activated.

• To set the Saturation Limit at the desired level, move its slider and observe the effect in the

feedback windo

w. The default setting is 70.

>>> Related topics:

radation

Cancelling color tool changes

Saving and retrieving color tool settings

• Automatic: Delete the change from the image’s Correction History by click-

ing on the relevant entry and then pressing Command-X (Macintosh) or the

Delete key (PC).

• Semi-automatic: Click on the Reset button in the Saturation window.