Where is saturation brush photoshop cs5

Click on an area of the photo that contains the color you want to use. Photoshop will sample that color and make it your new Foreground color. I'll click on the pinkish-red top she's wearing:. If we look at the Foreground color swatch in the Tools panel, we see that the color I clicked on has become my new Foreground color:.

With the color sampled directly from the image, I can paint over the balloon to change its color once again:. Notice that even though we've essentially painted over the balloon with a new color, the balloon retained its shiny, reflective appearance.

If we had simply grabbed the regular Brush Tool and painted over it, the balloon would look like nothing more than a flat surface with no life to it. So how was the Color Replacement Tool able to keep the balloon's texture and reflections? The answer is that the Color Replacement Tool uses blend modes to blend the new color in with the object. There's four blend modes to choose from— Hue , Saturation , Color , and Luminosity —all of which can be selected from the Mode option in the Options Bar.

The default blend mode is Color. It's the one we've been using so far:. What most of us think of as the color of an object is really a combination of three things— Hue the actual color itself , Saturation the intensity of the color and Brightness how light or dark it appears.

Each of the four blend modes we can choose from for the Color Replacement Tool affects one or more of these properties. Hue: The Hue blend mode will change only the basic color itself. It will not change the saturation or brightness of the original color. This mode is useful for images where the colors are not very intense and will usually produce very subtle changes. Saturation: The Saturation blend mode changes only the saturation of the original color. The hue and brightness are not affected.

This is useful for reducing the intensity of a color, or even removing color completely. Color: Color is the default blend mode and will change both the hue and saturation. The brightness will remain unchanged. This is the blend mode you'll use most often. Luminosity: Finally, the Luminosity blend mode will simply match the brightness of the original color to the brightness of the new color.

Hue and saturation are unaffected. In this photo below, an orange balloon at the top seems ready to split from the group and fly off on its own adventure into the sky:. One way to make the balloon stand out even more from the others might be to reduce the saturation of some of the other balloons below it. I don't want to change the actual color of the balloons, just the intensity of them. To do that, I'll change my blend mode option in the Options Bar to Saturation :.

If I wanted to completely desaturate the balloons, removing their color entirely, I'd set my Foreground color to either black, white or any shade of gray in between. But since I want a more subtle effect, I'll just sample one of the less-saturated colors in the image. Then, I'll click on a color. I'll choose a less-saturated yellow. The color itself makes no difference since the Saturation blend mode won't change any of the original colors. It will only affect the saturation:.

With a less-saturated color now set as my Foreground color and my blend mode set to Saturation, I'll paint over any balloons that need their saturation level reduced, adjusting my brush size with the left and right bracket keys on the keyboard and changing the Tolerance value in the Options Bar as needed. Here, we see the difference in saturation as I paint over one of the other orange balloons.

The top part of the balloon where I've painted shows the reduced saturation. The bottom part where I haven't painted yet still shows the original saturation:.

I'll continue painting over any other balloons that need their saturation reduced. Here's the finished result:. Unfortunately, there's one situation where the Color Replacement Tool tends to fail miserably, and that's when there's a big difference in brightness between the original color in the image and the color you want to replace it with. Let's say I wanted to replace the orange in that one balloon we've been focusing on with a dark purple color from one of the other balloons.

From everything we've seen so far, it should be simple enough. First, I'll set the colors in the image back to what they were originally by going up to the File menu at the top of the screen and choosing the Revert command. I'll set my blend mode in the Options Bar back to Color , the default setting. Then, I'll paint over the orange balloon to change its color to dark purple.

Here's the result:. It's definitely purple, but it doesn't quite look like the other purple balloons, does it? You need to be careful when it comes to changing rich, saturated colors, especially red. This will bring up the Color Picker menu. Choose what color you'd like to make your object.

This decision doesn't have to be final, because you can easily change it later : What's nice about creating a Color Fill is that it automatically creates a mask for that layer. Click on that mask and start to paint the areas you don't want to be affected.

Once everything looks good, set your layer blend mode to Color and you're finished! Sometimes duplicating the layer also helps achieve the rich color you're looking for.

This method doesn't work well with all colors and the outcome can be somewhat unpredictable at times, depending on the color you choose and the color of your object. This is a great option if you want to target a specific color in an intricate image. Instead of colorizing the layer as we did before, we're going to go to the dropdown menu that currently says "Master" and select the specific color we'd like to target. In this image, I want to change the blue package to purple—but painting around all those intricate design elements on the bag would be pretty time consuming.

Decide what color you want to change and select the option that best fits it. Bring your saturation all the way to so you can clearly see what colors are being affected. You may need to play around with the color bar at the bottom to refine the color selection.

Simply drag it so the middle part of the bar is over the color you'd like to change. Once the color you want to change in your image is completely gray, bring your saturation back up to 0. Anddd here's the fun part: start adjusting your Hue slider until it's the exact color you want—and that's it!

This is a great option for more intricate color selections you don't want to manually mask. This method won't work well if you have lots of similar colors within an image, as it will affect them all.

Load your brush with the color you'd like. If you painted where you didn't want color, that's fine. You can either erase it, or what I prefer to do, is create a mask so that it's non-destructive and I can easily go back. The tool works as a brush, which means we can change the tip shape and size. The important thing to note is that when you are working with the Sponge tool, you are changing the pixels in your image.

This is known as destructive image editing. If you want to follow along you can down this Photo by matthaeus on Unsplash for free. Or you can open one of your own photos. Select the Sponge tool O. The more you paint over an area, the more saturated the colour becomes.

See below. If you want to, paint on the blue building too. This is how my image looked after I used the Sponge Tool set to saturation on the blue and red buildings. We stick with the Sponge Tool but make a simple but important change to one of the options in the Tools Options bar at the top.

Paint over the area that you want to remove colour from. The more I paint over the same area, the more grey it becomes. Your original layer should be untouched underneath. There are several techniques we can use, but the Sponge Tool provides a fun quick fix when editing images.

I hope you found this short article on the Sponge Tool useful.