Vibrance and saturation perform pretty similar (though different) functions, and it can be difficult to tell the differences between them at times, but there are certain situations in which one will give you better results than the other. This excellent video tutorial will show you the difference between the two and how to use each of them to get better colors in your images.
Coming to you from Mike Smith, this great video tutorial will show you the difference between vibrance and saturation. A lot of the time, vibrance and saturation can produce pretty similar results, but the basic way they operate is different and has an appreciable impact in many scenarios. Saturation works to increase the intensity of all colors in an image at the same time, no matter how intense they were to start with. On the other hand, vibrance increases hues that are less saturated more than those that are already more intense while also trying to avoid saturating skin tones too much or maxing out any individual color channels and creating posterization. In a way, vibrance is like an advanced version of saturation. Remember, both are still global adjustments that work on all colors, so if you want to get more precise, you'll either have to turn to masking or the HSL panel. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Smith.
The audio on this video was so muddy, that it was hard to understand. The poster needs to use a closer mike, like a lapel mike, to get better audio on his videos.
The audio on this one was so bad, that I bailed out less than half way in.
I don't know. The audio was just fine for me.
It sounds fine. You probably have your EQ set for some boom boom music. :)
For saturation, that may be the case if you use it in ACR before going into Photoshop. But what he doesn't mention is you can selectively increase or decrease saturation by color once in Photoshop. I use it that way to deal with some strong colors. Outdoor scenes on a sunny day often seem too yellow where you have a lot of vegetation and light colored soils. I don't want to shift from yellow towards blue with color balance for everything in the photo, so I desaturate just the yellows a small amount.
How about you try one, and then the other, and see which one you like better? Sometimes one works better than the other, although I am more likely to use vibrance than saturation. Since I rarely ever batch process, I can use whichever is better for the photo I'm working on.
Sure. Still a good idea to understand what they're actually doing.