Photoshop Tutorials: Neutralizing Color Casts With The Photo Filter

Step 5: Boost The Colors With A Hue/Saturation Adjustment

The only problem now is that the colors are looking a little dull, so I'm going to fix that by boosting the color saturation with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. To do that, click on the New Adjustment Layer icon once again at the bottom of the Layers palette:

This time, choose Hue/Saturation from the list:

This brings up the Hue/Saturation adjustment dialog box. I'm going to drag the Saturation slider in the middle towards the right to increase the color saturation in the image. Keep an eye on your image to see a preview of what's happening as you drag. I'm going to drag mine to a value of about "+20":

Click OK when you're done to exit out of the Hue/Saturation dialog box, and you're done!

Here, once again, is my original image:

And here is the final result after boosting the colors with Hue/Saturation:

And there we go! That's how easy it is to correct a color cast problem using Photoshop's Photo Filter adjustment.

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