Boosting Color Saturation with Photoshop

Have you ever wondered how all professional photos that you see in magazines have such vivid colors? Granted, good equipment, the right conditions and the correct exposure are essential to great photo.

But even photos taken by amateurs can be boosted to look much better. The secret is a little bit of post production in Photoshop or Elements.

Step 1: Open the photo you would like to work on in Photoshop. Then create a duplicate layer by clicking on Layer > Duplicate Layer.

Step 2: Select the duplicate layer and apply a little bit of blur by selecting Filter > Blur > Glaussian Blur and set it to 3.

Step 3: Select the duplicate layer and set the blend mode to “Color”. This will ensure that the original background photo will show thourgh and any affect applied to the colors of the duplicate layer will be visible only. Then click on “Create new fill or Adjustment Layer” icon.

Step 4: For the new Adjustment Layer, select the “Hue abd Saturation” option.

Step 5: Set the “master” saturation to 55, green to 20 and blues to 20. Finally flaten the image and you are done!