Color
How to Make Colors Pop Without Oversaturating
“Make the colors pop” is probably the most common editing request, and the most common way to fulfill it — cranking the saturation slider — is also the worst. Oversaturated images look amateurish, print terribly, and destroy skin tones. Here’s how to actually make colors more vivid and impactful. Why Saturation Alone Doesn’t Work The Saturation slider increases the intensity of every color equally. This means already-saturated colors become radioactive while subtle colors barely change.