Vibrance is a post-processing photography term coined by Adobe and used to describe a ‘smart' saturationSaturation refers to the colour intensity of an image. As their saturation increases, colours appear more vivid and are considered more pure. Decreasing saturation results in muted colors, with full desaturation giving a black and white/monochromatic version of the image. It is different to vibrance where only those colors that are less saturated than the rest become more vivid with its application. More setting. Unlike the saturationSaturation refers to the colour intensity of an image. As their saturation increases, colours appear more vivid and are considered more pure. Decreasing saturation results in muted colors, with full desaturation giving a black and white/monochromatic version of the image. It is different to vibrance where only those colors that are less saturated than the rest become more vivid with its application. More control, which increases all colours’ pureness equally, vibrance only affects those colors that are less saturated than the rest. It is therefore a powerful tool for post-processing of images.
