From the course: Photoshop Retouching: Faces

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Using adjustment layers

Using adjustment layers

The image you have open, fresh from being processed in Capture One or Adobe Raw, should have a nice neutral feel to it. You want to make sure that the whites are white, with no tints of color in them. You don't necessarily want your neutrals to be cool, but not overly warm either. Looking at your whites gives you the best indication of any color tints. Crank an adjustment curve a bit, just to see how the image responds. So, Option+Cmd+M, brings up a Curves layer. Let's hit OK. And let's pull down on this three quarter tone area right here. And let's just watch how the shadows fall across the image. Watch what happens with the saturation of the image Really look at that skin and just get a good indication of the kinds of things that we're going to have to do. And we do the same thing with the quarter tone, by pulling it up and seeing how the highlights break and watching to see that our midtones aren't blown out and lost by making the image lighter. Okay. Right down here is your shadow…

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