12. Drag the Midtones saturation control up to the top of its range. With this adjustment, you significantly increased image saturation, but it doesn't affect the shadows (which ordinarily should be less saturated) or the highlights (where the whites of the image reside), so the increase doesn't look quite as artificial. For this reason, the Midtone saturation control can be a useful way to increase image saturation without putting unwanted color in the shadows and highlights where it might look strange. 13. As an experiment, try raising and lowering the Shadows and Highlights saturation controls to see how these adjustments affect the image. You should notice that, as with the Color controls, broad overlap exists between each of the three tonal ranges affected by these controls, so that excessive adjustment of shadows or highlights saturation inevitably affects midtone saturation. This is the way these controls have been designed, and with time you'll learn to control and use these interactions to your advantage. Take2 Try making targeted saturation adjustments to the eighth and ninth clips in this sequence. Add warm and cool color tints of your own in conjunction with saturation increases and decreases to get a feel for how the Color and Saturation controls interact. ChangingSaturationwithContrastAdjustments Now that you're exploring the interaction of the Color, Saturation, and Contrast controls, you should be aware of one more interaction. Because of the way Final Cut Pro X processes color, changes to image contrast using the Exposure controls also affect image saturation. In this brief exercise, you'll see the results of that interaction. 1. With the Burnt Dinner project open and the video scope displaying the Vectorscope, click anywhere in the last third of the first clip in the Timeline to select it and display its parameters in the Color Board. Then, in the Color Board, click Exposure. In its uncorrected state, this clip has a dark, muted blue look.