Color Correction two: Enhancing a Composition

                For this assignment I took a picture of my little chiguagua dog named Iria. The way I started enhancing this picture was the focus on the main subject first and then the surroundings. Using the vibrancy tool was really good in use for the brightness of the colors in her hair. It has green, blue, yellow and red in the hair, which made it a little hard to change, but all I had to do was balance them out (excluding the other colors). I did mess around with it at first just to see how the colors can end up, but then I realized I shouldn't use to much saturation at this point cause it can make the picture more blurry during the use of other tools. Using the Hue/Saturation tool proved to be very useful in changing the saturation. Unlike the vibrancy tool, this one allowed me to change the saturation of specific hues (in addition with lighting).

                Changing the saturation of specific colors was really helpful during the assignment, but when I wanted to subtract some of the background color and add light to it, subtracting the saturation was not a good idea. It left the image dull and emotion less every time. So I used the color balance tool to take out color from the highlights in the picture. I must say, this tool is one of my favorite ones to use when color correcting an image. It didn't really seem necessary to put a photo filter to this Image.