2 Replies Latest reply: Sep 18, 2013 1:19 PM by jyeager11 RSS

    Is it possible to establish a non-destructive saturation "ceiling" level?

    jyeager11 Community Member

      Is there any way to put a non-destructive cap on color saturation, the way you can shelf frequencies above or below a certain level in audio engineering?

       

      In other words, an adjustment layer that would limit all saturation values over X to.. well.. X.

       

      Example : Let's say we set it to 80% max. Pixels with saturation levels of 80 or below remain untouched. Pixels with saturation levels over 80 are re-adjusted to 80.

       

      (Simply lowering the saturation levels via an adjustment layer will lower everything, including portions that are already below the desired cap. We don't want that.)

        • 1. Re: Is it possible to establish a non-destructive saturation "ceiling" level?
          Mylenium CommunityMVP

          Sure. You create selections based on color range, use duplicate layers and build stacks of adjustments, e.g. Curves pre your saturation adjustment compressing/ limiting its influence based on a specific channel/ layer mask... Naturally it won't be just a simply "let's slap this Hue/ Sat on!" single step thing...

           

          Mylenium

          • 2. Re: Is it possible to establish a non-destructive saturation "ceiling" level?
            jyeager11 Community Member

            Mylenium wrote:

             

            Sure. You create selections based on color range, use duplicate layers and build stacks of adjustments, e.g. Curves pre your saturation adjustment compressing/ limiting its influence based on a specific channel/ layer mask... Naturally it won't be just a simply "let's slap this Hue/ Sat on!" single step thing...

             

            Mylenium

             

            It actually IS as simple as that last part in audio engineering. So I was hoping there was a similarly-simple way of restricting saturation levels to "everything over 80% is desaturated until it's 80%".

             

            Thanks for letting me know it's do-able, just not as a single step.