Hue/Saturation

Have you ever noticed that an awful lot of Photoshop experts spend an awful lot of time doing an awful lot of stuff to pictures of cars? As an equal-opportunity image editor, I've never quite understood the car fixation. (I own a Jeep. So, seriously, I'm lucky to put gas in the damn thing.) "But, you know," I thought one enlightened afternoon, "Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm the guy who's spending too much time on image stacks and 3D type and ink drawings and synthetic starfields and artificial wood grain and stereoscopic imagery and fake monsters. Maybe I should jump in a jalopy, roll down the windscreen, and edit a car."

And so this week I have. In fact, I do the most typical thing imaginable: I change a car's color. Only in the least typical, and most reliable, way that there is.

Here's the official description from lynda.com: Read more » 

Were I inclined to be purely objective, I would tell you that the ages-old Hue/Saturation command is growing somewhat long in the tooth. For example, if your primary purpose is to increase the saturation of an image, you're better off exploiting the Vibrance command or the Lab mode.

Even so, Hue/Saturation continues to do something that no other feature does: It lets you edit one range of colors independently of all others--without defining a selection or mask--all from inside a single dialog box or palette. And it does this so very easily and so very credibly, that you can get in and out of an image without anyone being the wiser. Read more »