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For color saturation, I saw something posted a couple of weeks ago (don't recall who or I'd give credit), sorry that seems to work well.
Create a duplicate layer, increase saturation (you can push it fairly far) on that new layer, add some gaussian blur to soften edges (1.5 - 4 seems to work well for me), and change the blending mode to color. You can play with the opacity as well to get just the look you're after. This will increase saturation, but not kill the details as bad as straight Hue/Saturation/Lightness. I usually do this mid-way through processing (after cropping, levels adjustments, etc..) but before really fine-tuning with curves, resizing, sharpening, etc..
HTH! |
