Adjust hue, saturation, and vibrance

The Hue & Saturation adjustment lets you shift all the colors in an image along the color spectrum and increase or decrease their saturation and vibrance. You can also improve the hue & saturation automatically using the machine learning-powered ML adjustment.

You can apply the Hue & Saturation adjustment to a single layer or, using a color adjustments layer, multiple layers in a composition.

Edit the currently selected layer#

  • Choose Format > Color Adjustments > Hue & Saturation from the Format menu at the top of your screen.
  • In the Tools sidebar, click the Color Adjustments tool and turn on Hue & Saturation.
  • Press A on your keyboard and turn on the Hue & Saturation adjustment.

Edit multiple layers in a composition#

  • Choose Insert > Color Adjustments from the Insert menu at the top of your screen and turn on the Hue & Saturation adjustment in the Tool Options pane.
  • Click Insert a layer at the top of the Layers sidebar, choose Color Adjustments, and turn on the Hue and Saturation adjustment.
  • Press Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + A on your keyboard, and turn on the Hue & Saturation adjustment.

Shift all the colors in an image along the color spectrum#

Drag the Hue slider to the left or right to shift all the colors in the image along the color spectrum. You can also click the Hue value and enter a percentage from –100% to 100%.

Adjust the saturation of all the colors in an image#

Adjusting saturation makes every color more or less intense.

  • Drag the Saturation slider to the right to make every color in the image more saturated.
  • Drag the Saturation slider to the left to make them less saturated.

Adjust the vibrance of all the colors in an image#

The Vibrance slider targets only the most or least saturated colors depending on whether you’re increasing or decreasing vibrance.

  • When reducing vibrance, the intensity of the more saturated areas is reduced, while the less saturated areas are less affected.
  • When increasing vibrance, the intensity of the less saturated areas is increased, while the more saturated areas are less affected.

Press and hold the Option ⌥ key before dragging if you’d like to extend the range of the Vibrance slider beyond 100%. You can also click the Vibrance value and enter a percentage from –200% to 200%.

Automatically adjust the hue and saturation in an image#

The ML adjustment improves hue and saturation in your image automatically using a machine learning algorithm trained on millions of professional images.

Click the ML button in the Tool Options pane next to the Hue & Saturation adjustment to adjust the colors automatically.

Show before and after or reset adjustments#

Show Original: Click the Show Original button or press Control ⌃ + M on your keyboard to see what the image looks like without any color adjustments.

Show Split Comparison: Option ⌥ – click the Show Original button, press Control ⌃ + C on your keyboard, or force-click the canvas.

To reset all Color Adjustments, click Reset at the bottom of the Color Adjustments pane.