Adjustments in Photoshop are a group of editing tools that can be used to manipulate color and tone without permanently changing the image. Adjustment layers can be edited and discarded in order to restore the original image at any time. Common Adjustments include Levels, Brightness & Contrast, Vibrance, and Color Balance.

Vibrance is a smart tool that increases the intensity of the more muted colors in an image and leaves the already well-saturated colors alone. It also prevents skin tones from becoming overly saturated and unnatural. The Vibrance adjustment also has a saturation control, which changes the intensity of all colors. Saturation can very easily make colors and skin tone look unnatural. It is recommended to make changes to the images saturation with the Hue/Saturation adjustment instead of the Vibrance adjustment.

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