Quick and Easy Photo Editing
Fix Skin Tones in Lightroom
Here are a few easy steps to
quickly correct artificial and radioactive skin tones using the Hue, Saturation
and Luminance sliders. The image below is straight out of the camera before any
editing, looks a little too warm. Let’s fix it…
Step 1:
Do the usual exposure and white balance corrections. These basic edit elements
will help even skin tones:
White Balance – slightly
take some warmth away.
Contrast – reduce contrast
to “smooth” out skin tones.
Clarity – a small reduction
in clarity will also aid in “smoothing” out skin tones.
Step 2 –
Skin Tone Color Adjustments to correct skin tones that are too “orange”
Raise – the Red, Orang e
“Hue” sliders slightly
Lower – the Rad, Orange “Saturation”
sliders &
Raise the Red, Orange
“Luminance” sliders.
Just be mindful that each
photo is different in terms of how much you should move the sliders to get your
desire result – a more natural looking skin tone.
Here’s the before and after…
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