The latitude of a JPEG to increased saturation is lower than that of a RAW file and it is for this reason that many newcomers image look way over saturated. However, if you have pushed any of the red, green or blue channels past the edge of the histogram then you do have too much. In short, adding shades of grey desaturates a color, while removing grey makes a color saturated. How Much Is Too Much? Let’s see what the photo would look like if the vibrance and saturation were set to +50: Just dial up the color! Re: Too much saturation? Composition weak?

This, too, reduces the color’s saturation. This made certain colors, like the leaves and dog fur, look a bit too saturated. Again this is going to be purely subjective. Photoshoppers want their pictures to grab attention just because their color is loud. Like the example above.

In reply to Iainm86 • Oct 25, 2016 Look at the data panel on your post, the EV is set to --1EV, exposure so its likely to be underexposed, especially in dull / dark lighting. Raise the clarity and shadows. I understand that saturation, along with … You can also imagine a gradient from red to medium grey (128, 128, 128), where the saturation very obviously decreases from left to right. Creating images with too much contrast is a very frequent problem, especially with black and white images. Too little and your image will look flat; too much and it will look fake. Saturation,burning ,dodging are all art forms in themselves and should be applied with some caution,don`t jump in and saturate the whole image in … * Use the Graduated filter, starting in the border and dragging in the opposite direction of the image to affect the whole image. Do another Graduated filter if necessary.

Now raise general vibrance, since other colors need more saturation.

Your workflow can inadvertently affect color saturation of an image, too. But the result would look much better if the saturation were less intense. set that to 0 and things will probably improve. How much saturation is too much? Sometimes, instead of increasing the contrast, you really just want to turn the darkest grays into black by … Saturation enhanced every color regardless of how muted or colorful it was.

* Raise general saturation until one color becomes too much. Left: The image right out of the camera.Right: Waaay too much saturation!