You'll never increase saturation the same way again after I teach you the ultimate technique to improve saturation with Photoshop. Follow this quick and easy Photoshop tutorial that anyone can do to make their photos look more vivid so much more naturally.

First of all, portraits are not usually the type of photo you want to make saturated. If you load a portrait into Photoshop and increase the saturation, you're going to get a photo that doesn't look as good as the original. Also, if you increase the saturation too much, you'll get skin tones and lips that don't look natural at all; typically seen in Photography forums by the unexperienced. Unless you have specific intentions (ex. making the photo look like pop art), try not to increase saturation in portait photos. Increasing saturation works great with landscape photos because they can still look natural with a saturation boost.

OK, lets fire up Photoshop and get started!

Naturally Vivid Colors Photoshop Tutorial

Step 1 - Open a photo (duh)

First, run Photoshop and load any photo into Photoshop. If you don't know how to do that, I would be a little worried, but here's how: Choose File > Open, browse for the file, and click OK. I'll be using this photo of a beautiful girl to show you the acceptable results it has on skin tones.

Step 2 - Try out the Hue/Saturation

First, let's try out the classic Hue/Saturation method that almost everyone uses to make their photos look more vivid. Choose Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation.

In the Hue/Saturation tool, increase the saturation to 50. Look how fake the skin and lips looks on the image I used. Remember when I said earlier that you'll see these horribally vivid portraits on Photography forums by the inexperienced? Here's an example.

Don't click OK after you use the Hue/Saturation tool. If you already did, just press Ctrl+Z to undo the horrible saturation increase. Now I'll show you the best technique on how to make photos look more vivid with Photoshop.