Making colors less vibrant

I am using the rgb color mode and want to make some colors less vibrant. In Photoshop I might desaturate with the sponge tool. What are some of the ways I can do this in cs5?'
Thank you.

Desaturating a color means "dirtying" it with its opposite color. In subtractive process (CMYK mode) adding the opposite color grays and darkens the result. In additive process (RGB mode) adding the opposite color grays and lightens the result.
So for example: Suppose the color you want to desaturate in RGB is yellow. If it's fully yellow, that means R and G are maxed out at 255. Adding B will desaturate it, but will also move it toward white, so as it becomes desatuarted, it also becomes tinted. To compensate, reduce R and G together. The result will be a "grayer yellow" or a "yellowish gray." If the "yellowish gray" tends toward greenish, reduce G slightly relative to the R.
Whether you do this in the Color palette sliders, the Edit>Edit Colors>Adjust Color Balance dialog, the Hue, Saturation, and Brightness sliders in Edit>Edit Colors>Recolor Artwork dialog, the Intensity slider of the Edit>Edit Colors>Saturate dialog, or by dragging the marker in the Color Picker leftward, you are doing the same thing.
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