Increase Color Saturation

[Lecira]

New here. Photoshop refugee.

 

Have managed to figure out resizing canvas, saving to higher resolution and cropping of an image of a photo of a fine-art watercolor.

 

Now, I simply want to increase the color saturation.

 

I found this tool ( and instructions as shown below), have tried unlocking, etc., but the slider does not engage/allow me to slide it: 

 

• Saturation Shift—controls the intensity of the colours in the image. Drag the slider to the left to decrease colour intensity, drag to the right to increase it.

 

Do I need to save in a special way in order to use the Saturation Shift tool?

I know I'm missing something simple (I hope).

What do I need to open, click, talk sweet to... to perform a simple saturation adjustment?

 

Thanks. 9:10 PM CST USA

[Asha]

Layer Adjustments > HSL

 

There is a Saturation slider in the HSL control

 

I don't know why you can't change the slider--can you attach a screen shot?

[Affinity Jack]

Hi Lecira,

 

I assume, the adjustment layer effects the wrong layer...

Activate the layer (not the mask or something) you want to effect.

Then click on "adjustment layers" - "HSL".

You can shift the HSL-slider to effect.

If you have several layers and you want only to effect one layer, drag the HSL-layer onto that layer.

I hope, that is the solution.

 

Ciao Jack

[Madame]

Also, one very easy way to emphasis the colours is to make a copy layer and change the blendmode to multiply (alter the opacity may be necesairy) or overlay.