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Vibrance vs. Saturation in Lightroom: What the Sliders Are Actually Doing to Your Colors
There’s a moment every Lightroom user hits where they crank up the Saturation slider and suddenly their subject looks like they’ve been standing next to a reactor. The colors pop, sure, but the reds are blown out, the skin tones look radioactive, and the detail in the image quietly disappears. For years I fixed this by just… not touching Saturation. I’d nudge it up two points and call it done. It worked, but it wasn’t understanding — it was avoidance.