Photoshop, of course, includes a color saturation adjustment (Image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation) however sometimes it's range is too limited, and worse, with digital photos it tends to distort the colors if youuse more than a little boost. Sometimes I have photos where I want to punch up the color without getting this distortion. This becomes more of an issue if you intend to print enlargements of your photos.
I took this photo during a visit to Disney's California
Adventure theme park. It's a building in the shape of giant pink dinosaur who's
wearing sunglasses. I like this photo, though the colors are a little weak in
the original on the left. I want to boost the intensity of the colors without
introducing any artifacts or distortions. Fortunately, there's another way toboost color saturation in Photoshop other than with the Hue/Saturation
adjustment. This is done by converting the image from RGB to Lab color mode and
then making the adjustments to the color channels there. This technique is
quick and easy and produces great results.
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