Vibrance

[Tinkerer]

Thank you for some first class tutorials.
Keep them coming.

In the Lightroom Develop Module there is a Vibrance slider.
Just what does it do?
My dictionary tells me that vibrance is a noise made by vibrating metal.

All the other sliders are easily understood.
Has Adobe invented a new word?

Tink.

[MichaelT]

The term and function for Vibrance was actually developed by the creators of RawShooter, which Adobe acquired. They have taken the term and modified the function a bit. The Vibrance control is like an intelligent Saturation control, but rather than increase the saturation for every pixel, it uses intelligence to examine the image and only increase the saturation, "where it is needed", or put another way in color that are not yet saturated, while watching to not overdose the skin tones. Much more useful than the saturation control.

[Tinkerer]

Many thanks Michael.
It works as you said, but I would never have guessed.

Tink.

[MichaelT]

:>)

Enjoy.