: What's the difference between saturation, vibrance and clarity in Photoshop and Lightroom? What is the difference between vibrance, saturation and clarity in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop?

@Sims5801359

Vibrance is a smart-tool which cleverly increases the intensity of the dull colors and leaves the already well-saturated colors alone while saturation effects the whole image.
Clarity is like the contrast slider but it only effects the mid tones rather than whole image like contrast

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@Berumen635

This first bit is from the Adobe site.

Vibrance adjusts the saturation so that clipping is minimized as colors approach full saturation, changing the saturation of all lower-saturated colors with less effect on the higher-saturated colors. Vibrance also prevents skin tones from becoming oversaturated.
Saturation adjusts the saturation of all image colors equally from ‑100 (monochrome) to +100 (double the saturation).

Now my observation:
As a test, I processed an image with the Vibrance slider all the way to the top and Saturation at zero, then the other way around. Vibrance is less extreme and does a balancing act to keep things from getting too saturated as well as keeping skin tones more natural looking.

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