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Photoshop has developed a very nice graphical way of creating some image adjustments called variations. Under the image menu adjustments at the bottom, choose variations. And it brings up this type of dialogue box with essentially a color wheel around the current image. At the top of our variations dialogue box, we have our original image thumbnail and the current version or iteration. And currently since we made no changes they look exactly the same. To the right side of this dialogue box we have some radio buttons allowing us to choose to affect the shadows, the mid-tones, the highlights, or the saturation of our image. And for all of these radio button modes, we can choose the degree of effect or change from very fine to very coarse. And I'll leave it in the middle so that we can see these changes fairly graphically, maybe I'll dial it up just a bit. Also notice show clipping is enabled currently, and clipping means that it might create some colors which would be out of printable gamut. And you might notice this particularly when you choose saturation. So I've dialed up my saturation all the way to coarse, and this particular version has a out of gamut colors as indicated by these strange colored pixels. I'm going to dial that back down a bit and talk about how our variations or color section works. All you need to do to add a bit more green to our image is simply click on the more green thumbnail. And it will be added to the current pick. And of course if you want to negate that effect, all you need to do is come down to the opposite side and choose more magenta. And it will essentially bring us back to where we were. So in this way, I could first affect the shadows. Maybe I'll add a bit or red in the shadows. And perhaps a bit of blue as well. And now notice that our original and current pick do look slightly different. I'm going to go back to mid-tones here, click on the mid-tones radio button and dial my coarseness slider back a bit so the effect is a little bit less dramatic. And for mid-tones, I think I'll add a bit of yellow to my mid-tones. Maybe a bit of red as well. And for highlights perhaps a bit of blue. So you can see now that we have a dramatic change going on here from my original to my current pick. If you ever want to start over in this interface, you can of course press the option key on the Mac or the Alt key on a PC, and click reset. Or another way to do it is simply click on the original thumbnail and the original thumbnail will replace the current pick, so in this case I've just negated any change by replacing it with my unaffected image. And you can see to the right side of the variations dialogue box, we also have a collection of options for choosing darker or lighter. So in this way I could click darker, and if I want to make it much darker I'll just simply keep pressing on the darker thumbnail. And again similar to these other image adjustment types of tools, you can save out these effects as its own adjustment file, and then load them back onto other images. So I'm going to click ok and apply those changes to my image. So that's all those color variation changes applied once to my image. And I'll undo that to see where we started from.