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Evaluating skin tones and making basic corrections - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Learning Photoshop Color Correction
Evaluating skin tones and making basic corrections
Alright, in this exercise we're going to be working on correcting skin tones. Right, and this is one of the very common, important color correction adjustments you need to make on a regular basis. Alright, working on skin tones is different than some of the other images that we've been working on. So far, in this course, we've worked on images where we're correcting a lot of neutrals. Like neutral highlights and neutral mid-tones. Well, in skin tones it's all about the skin tone. Does this image have a neutral highlight in it? Sure, we've got the white snow in the background. But that's not the critical portion of the image, right. And sometimes the color casts are different from foreground to background, particularly if they're six, seven, 10 miles away. So when we look at a skin tone image, that's what we really want to focus on. One of the challenges just conceptually, and adjustment-wise is that, you know, unlike a white cloud or a white dress. Which are supposed to be neutral…
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Using histograms9m 19s
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Identifying and removing color casts4m 29s
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Evaluating and correcting highlights in a landscape6m 33s
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Adding saturated postcard-style color enhancements5m 2s
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Finding and correcting neutrals8m 9s
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Evaluating skin tones and making basic corrections7m 13s
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Identifying neutrals and color casts6m 43s
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