Editing: Adjusting Colour

There are different options in terms of adjusting the colour of a photograph; you can play around with the 'temperature', this changes the image to make it look either warmer (colours have a red and orange tint to them- could be used when editing Autumn shots, to make the oranges and reds of the trees stand out, for example) or colder (the colours in the image have a blue edge to them- particularly effective when editing shots of rivers and the sea).

 

The second adjustment in terms of colour is 'tint', which takes the two main colours in the image and increases their intensity on the whole photo; for example in the images below, the first takes the green of the grass and increases it's strength, so in effect the whole image has a green 'tint' to it.  

And so in the second it takes the purple/grey of the rocks and does the same.

 





Original

And the third is 'Saturation'; this basically means to colourise an image, meaning a photo that has a low saturation will be in black and white.

 





The original