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HSL color editor for hue, saturation, and lightness

Fine-tune the colors already in your photo. Adjust hue, saturation, and lightness with HSL controls, then compare the result as you edit.

Try HSL editing with a sample photo

Open a sample in Adjust, then expand HSL to experiment with its colors.

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What is HSL in photo editing?

HSL stands for hue, saturation, and lightness. Hue changes the color, saturation changes its intensity, and lightness makes it brighter or darker. In Picsart, HSL controls let you adjust a color range in your photo, so you can refine greens in a landscape or reds in an outfit without applying the same change to every color.

Shift the hue of a color range

Choose a color represented in your photo, then move the hue slider to explore nearby shades. Refine green foliage, blue skies, or an accent color while checking how the selected range changes across the image.

Adjust HSL colors
  • Choose which color range to adjust
Give your photos a new hue

Control color intensity with saturation

Increase saturation for a stronger color or reduce it for a softer look. Work on the selected color range, and compare small changes before moving to another color in your photo.

Adjust HSL colors
create mood with the saturation

Refine lightness without brightening every color

Make a selected color range lighter or darker with the lightness slider. Use it to refine a clothing color, background detail, or product accent, then balance the result with your hue and saturation adjustments.

Adjust HSL colors
  • Refine the lightness of that color
play with lightness for your photo edits

How to adjust HSL color online

Start with a photo in the editor. HSL is marked Pro in the current editing tools.

How to

Upload a photo

Use Upload image above, or open the editor and add your photo.

Open Adjust
Picsart HSL color

HSL color editing questions

  • Hue describes a color, saturation describes how intense it is, and lightness describes how light or dark it is. Changing one control lets you refine that quality without having to change all three.

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