Saturated Effect Tutorial

June 29, 2008 · Print This Article

This Saturated Effect Tutorial will explain how to add a subtle painting effect.

This effect is great for images which have too much colour and maybe you want something more saturated… colour doesn’t always work and there is a lovely elegance in saturated, black/white images

Once you know how to do this you can easily alter it to work with other images… the best thing about this is it’s simple to remember, once you’ve done it you’ll never forget how to do this!

Feel free to request something similar to this Saturated Effect Tutorial.

Before

Green Saturation Effect Before

After

Green Saturation Effect After

Saturated Effect Tutorial - The Steps

You duplicate the base of your image (Layer -> Duplicate Layer ) Set that duplicate to Overlay (to do this go to your layers pallet, locate the drop down menu which says "Normal", change that to "Overlay" - if by any chance you cannot see your layers pallet, press the key F7 it will call the layers pallet) and then change the opacity to what ever you think looks best (mine is set at 100% because it made the flowers more focused).

Create a new fill layer (Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Colour) and put this colour in #7a8679 and then change the layer type to Saturation (layers pallet - normal drop down menu, change to Saturation).

There you go, you’ve got that greeny saturation effect that adds a dramatic and great look to images… I’d suggest trying this out on a few other images, just to see what it can do on different types of images. This effect works wonders on other types of images, just try messing around with the opacity levels and also the colour layer. Go wild!

And that’s it! I hope this Saturated Effect Tutorial was useful and good luck with all of your designing. If you have any problems, questions or anything else regarding this tutorial then leave a comment below!