Help me understand

[jemsurvey]

Hello all,

I've been working through Jeff's book, The Digital Negative, with mostly good results.  However in the Photoshop chapter page 214 where he adds a saturation blend layer, I can't seem to get it right.  When I add a new layer set to blend mode saturation and try painting on the layer all I get is a loss of saturation whether or not my foreground / background color is white or black.  I know its me so any help would be appreciated.

thanks,
John

[jemsurvey]

OK...think I figured it out....I needed to choose a saturated color to begin with.....Thanks

[Schewe]

Yep...any fully saturated color (doesn't matter what hue it is) will add saturation...and desaturated color will reduce saturation. Which is the cool thing about this approach–which I learned from JP Caponigro.

[jemsurvey]

Yes, very cool, thanks...