Saturation or saturation ?
Probably a stupid question:
Is there a difference between the Saturation tool in "Exposure" tool, and "Saturation" in the "Color Editor > Basic > All colors tool" ?
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Interesting question. Testing one image I see the highest value (80) in Color Editor > Basic > All Colors gives my image a more saturated preview then 100 in the Exposure tool.
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I had the same impression, hence my question.
I remember something that the "saturation" slider (which one ?) was in fact more a "vibrance" slider.
But then why wouldn't one be named "vibrance" and the other "saturation", if they have different effects ?
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Don't know, it does not matter to me, I adjust my images visually. Cheers, BeO
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As Claude suggests, Saturation in Exposure is described as "smart" saturation, more akin to (but not, hence the naming convention) a Vibrance slider.
Reasonable to assume that the slider in the Colour Editor is not "smart", if results are anything to go by.
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Perhaps some genius guru at C1P could then come up with the fabb’ idea of giving them different names ?
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Why, just because if behaves a little bit different?
I have never seen the term "vibrance" in color theory, and as a non-native english speaker starting with C1, someone would have to explain me what this means, and the explanation would probably be: This increases the saturation.
The term "saturation" in the Color Editor HSL tool (hue, saturation, lightness) makes sense too.
And I never use the "All colors" in the basic editor anyway, if I want to increase or decrease overall saturation.
So, why bother. Let them focus on the real things.
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Perhaps some genius guru at C1P could then come up with the fabb’ idea of giving them different names ?
Why? the naming convention is utterly irrelevant to their use - your eyes see the same thing as a result of them, regardless of how they're labelled.
I have never seen the term "vibrance" in color theory, and as a non-native english speaker starting with C1, someone would have to explain me what this means, and the explanation would probably be: This increases the saturation.
BeO, most Raw converters and image editors provide a kind of saturation which approaches some colour ranges more subtly, in order to avoid unbalanced over-saturation.
This tool has become known as a "Vibrance" tool, as that is supposedly what it adds to the image.
Adobe's explanation is as good as any:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/adjust-vibrance.html
Capture One's main Saturation tool works in the same way, but they choose to stick with the more traditional name.
As you suggest - it doesn't matter what it's called.
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Thanks for pointing out the differences between saturation and er, saturation. While almost every other bit of software I use has this difference, it would be well to call the tools by the correct name.
Any while we/I might grade by eye, the starting point when looking at a session is a quick and dirty grade without a long glance at the pane and tab to make sure the correct saturation tool was being used.
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