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# Increasing Saturation

When an image is desaturated, the colours can appear washed out. To improve contrast, you can increase the colour saturation globally, saturate specific hues, or do both. Increasing saturation levels increases the colour intensity and causes minor changes to the hue. The luma content is virtually unaffected when you modify saturation.

To increase saturation globally:

1. Click Basics to display the Basics menu.
2. Drag right in the Saturation field while monitoring the 2D or 3D vectorscope and the image.

   The selected colour range (or entire image) moves towards the perimeter of the 2D luma histogram. There is also an increase in colour saturation in the image.

To saturate specific hues of an image:

1. Click Basics to display the Basics menu.
2. Select Saturate from the Trackball option box.
3. Drag the Saturate trackball towards the colour you want to saturate while monitoring the 2D vectorscope. Drag until the colour is closer to the edge of the 2D vectorscope. For example, to saturate reds, move the trackball towards red.
   NoteTo make the trackballs respond to changes in pressure, use the Pointer preferences in the Preferences menu. See Pointer Preferences.
4. Release the trackball.
5. To further increase the saturation of the same colour, use the trackball to move the colour closer to the edge of the 2D vectorscope.