8.20. Color Enhance
| 8. The “Colors” Menu |

### 8.20. Color Enhance

The Color Enhance command stretches the Chroma range of the colors in the layer to the maximum possible, without altering Hue and Lightness. It does this by converting the colors to CIE LCh space, then stretching the Chroma range to be as large as possible, and finally converting the colors back to its native color space.

| Note
This command does not work on Grayscale images. If the image is Grayscale, the menu entry is disabled.

#### 8.20.1. Activating the Command

- You can access this command from the main menu through Colors → Auto → Color Enhance.

#### 8.20.2. “Color Enhance” example

Figure 16.166. Original image

The active layer and its Red, Green and Blue histograms before “Color Enhance”.

Figure 16.167. Command applied

The active layer and its Red, Green and Blue histograms after “Color Enhance”. The result may not always be what you expect.

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