The White Balance Tool of Photoshop Express

First, let's check what white balance means in the world of photography.  White balancing removes unrealistic color translations so if an object appears to be white in the real world, the object should appear exactly the same in the picture.

Our eyes are very accurate at checking what is white regardless of light conditions, but cameras have difficulty on auto white balancing.  This difficulty explains why some pictures come out bluish, orangey or even greenish.  This is what the white balance tool in Photoshop Express aims to fix.

Again, I will be showing the original photo followed by how the same photo will look with different white balancing levels applied:

Original picture:

First level white balance:

Second level white balance:

Third level white balance:

Fourth level white balance:

Fifth level white balance:

Sixth level white balance:

Seventh level white balance:

Color Saturation Adjustments in Photoshop.com

Saturation in the world of photography is quite different from what we've all come to know in the real world. Saturation in its most basic definition is the amount of liquid absorbed.  For example, the amount of water absorbed by a hand towel, or the amount of water absorbed by a bowl of oatmeal.  If the oatmeal has absorbed a lot of water, then it is highly saturated.

On the other hand, in photography, saturation is the color being reflected back to us.  For example if a shirt appears to be color yellow, then that means that it absorbs all colors except the color yellow, which is the color reflected to us.

That's the shortest definition of saturation, we can go into the details, but that would definitely bore you.  I just gave you the introduction so you can have more appreciation of what the saturation tool in the online Photoshop tool can be used for.

Again, here is the sample photo with different saturation settings applied.

This is the original image, no saturation adjustments yet:

Here is the same photo with saturation setting 1 applied, as you can see, the image has turned to grey scale:

Saturation setting 2 applied:

Saturation setting 3 applied:

Saturation setting 4 applied, starting with this setting, the colors now become more saturated:

Saturation setting 5 applied:

Saturation setting 6 applied:

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