3 Secrets To PERFECT Skin Tones! (Photoshop Tutorial)

Learn the 3 Photoshop secrets to creating PERFECT skin tones for your portrait photos!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Secret #1: Shadow/Exposure Recovery
3:39 Secret #2: Selective Coloring
5:32 Secret #3: Enhance & Perfect!
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[@cletusababara8279]

I have been searching through KZbin for excellent tutorials for years. JL you are simple the best. Your work is exceptional. When I see video with JL, I go for it. You are impacting lives. Please, please, we need more.

[@MimoDais]

Oh, I loved your tutorial. It's simple and deep. I couldn't find an explanation like this at all. Great. Keep posting more Photoshop tutorials

[@DEEPAKYADAV-wn3dk]

Amazing tutorial, well explained and you are one of the best Photo retoucher on KZbin. Keep Going, I always love your work.

[@taufiklatief]

Hi Justin, I'm so glad found this channel, my current job is involved in skin retouching in the aesthetics clinic and this is so helping me out to improve my capacity for retouching. Thank you :). Please consider uploading your video weekly, because it's hugely helpful for many people. Can't wait for your next video

[@justinlaurens]

You're awesome, thank you for this. I will do my best to crank out the content whilst adhering to high quality standards! You can count on my man 🙌

[@julienegea5148]

perfect as always, thank you for your tips Justin I wish you the best

[@deepaksonii6355]

That amazing Justin loved it 😍

[@tomahawkstudios1431]

Just perfect, thank you so much Justin. I learn everytime with your videos.

[@justinlaurens]

My pleasure Thomas! Really appreciate comments like this man, glad you're finding my videos helpful.

[@chriszhao3754]

What a great tutorial. Thank you!

[@vivekr5604]

Luv your videos Laurens. I could see a drastic change in my retouching workflow with your youtube videos. Kudos to your work. Expecting more videos :)

[@justinlaurens]

Thank you Vivek it’s my pleasure man! I’m glad to hear it, add me on Instagram and share your work with me there would love to see. What are your thoughts on this new video btw? Much more coming, stay tuned! 🙌

[@KyNguyen-il1pw]

thank for all the tips, it's reallyyyyy helpful

[@peddrovieira]

Amazing tutorial. Thanks!

[@EmanMohamed-py1qj]

completely gorgeous .. thank you 💕

[@justinlaurens]

You're welcome :) Thank you!

[@Rionaran]

I really love your portraits, and your videos are very informative. I was wondering if you ever do male portraits, and if the editing would be different in that case? Or do you maybe know photographers who are specialized in male portraits and editing?

[@stancerliong1909]

Thank you for tutorial!

[@khanaviation7202]

I've been really trying to get my photo game up. Thank you i'll try these techniques

[@justinlaurens]

My pleasure!

[@NineDekay]

Hey man, thank you! Can't wait to try it soon.

[@justinlaurens]

Anytime Nine! Let me know how it goes... (shoot me a DM on IG) :)

[@JennieBMurphy09]

You allow me to be successful in my craft. Thank you for everything you do. I love you.

[@justinlaurens]

Thanks for the kind words, I'm so glad

[@dreamcrafterx]

amazing as usual

[@tangsree7808]

Perfect, helpful. Thanks.

[@selenefroehlich9138]

Wow this is great, I wanted to achieve a rosy skin tone, in person my skin is rosy white but on camera I don't know why it looks so dull and yellow, it took me the entire week to tweak my pics, I'll be going back to see your video for my future editing, thanks a lot! :)

[@Piso]

Woot woot! Great video ma dude, love the new setup btw :D

[@justinlaurens]

Thanks bossss 🙌 just another day at the office 🤷‍♂️ hehe

[@blakthor6981]

Amazing learned tons

[@justinlaurens]

Ahh it’s a big pleasure 🙏

[@maulidahadini6201]

this tutorial help me! thank you

[@otubanjojoseph4576]

Wow. This is so helpful 🥺

[@justinlaurens]

I'm so glad!

[@janicebutler442]

Thank you for these free tips. I find your work to be amazing. , Photo Shop can be a beast to learn. but I don't know where I would be without it.

[@justinlaurens]

You are so welcome! I have 2 brand new courses coming out in a few weeks (after about 6 months of work!) Stay tuned for that :)

[@mirandavandenberk786]

Thank you so much again,learn so much from you

[@justinlaurens]

Happy to hear that Miranda, thanks for the comment! :)

[@youtubelyrics4102]

Amazing tutorial ✊✊✊

[@Seethesmall]

great video! Justin you are a great teacher !

[@justinlaurens]

I appreciate that a lot Ken! Trying my best 😁

[@franciscomarius1739]

Gracias Justin! Disfruté y aprendí bastante con este tutorial. Suscrito!

[@justinlaurens]

Es un placer, gracias por mirar. 😊

[@cutecuddles20]

Love your works!

[@justinlaurens]

Thank you Charles! Appreciate it man

[@davidjameson7603]

This is so helpful! thank you

[@justinlaurens]

You're so welcome!

[@denismugo5006]

thanks, this is what i have been looking for

[@justinlaurens]

Glad to hear it man

[@joselopez6324]

Excellent presentation!

[@justinlaurens]

Ah thanks so much Jose, really glad to hear it!

[@olofkristiansson9910]

Nice tutorial! One thing: you don’t need to create a blank layer before doing a Stamp visible command. Just go to the top layer and hit the shortcut.

[@josediazh3890]

Muchas gracias Justin laurens.

[@veselinvasilev9362]

Thanks!

[@susilorejo]

Good Morning mr, thanks this tutorial i am learn photoshop,

[@MrYogesh234]

Excellent work thanks for the tips but this process is little bit long and i have so many picture so can you tell me short way for my work plz

[@kevolparkinson1612]

Nice tutorial

[@isharedesign7532]

thanks for sharing

[@Firefox-ce6sb]

Thanks for the videos bro

[@justinlaurens]

My pleasure homie

[@justinlaurens]

Thanks for watching

[@nalakaruwan5182]

harima yasai harima hodi kollo niyametema karala damma

[@mostafa.rahzani]

that was perfect thanks a lot I wish you had put a photo for practice

[@user-jo8nj]

when u go to camera raw after you've already been to photoshop, will it take the original raw as baseline or your already developed photoshop image, i.e. losing information of the raw?

[@ngodinhhoang]

Thank you very much!💞👍

[@justinlaurens]

You're welcome 😊

[@whynot6108]

Dope!

[@justinlaurens]

Thanks friend 🙏

[@mohsinfareed1797]

I would have been great if you added a link for the graphic you used in the videos.

[@justinlaurens]

The photo I edited?

[@sandipcreation9499]

thank you so much sir thanks a lot

[@justinlaurens]

Most welcome

[@kiss_a_ten]

Thank youuuuuuu

[@Waylon_]

Great!

[@miggerdrengen575]

Hi great video. but instead of copying the layermask to every single layer. it is moch easier and more effecient to make it for the grouplayers

[@photos2289]

sir you are great

[@artsandeducation7716]

Simple and nice explained, Thanks you so much.

[@justinlaurens]

You are welcome!

[@ainarsjegorovs556]

Wow ur doing it to perfection love the tones ur eye seeing, tho would add a liitle retouche to her sholder where transition is between highlights and shadows or in midtones the pinkish comes unnatural out there, but look this is if we talk about perfection, im about 98%before ir level, but seing the video just jumped in eyes, grate video and i learned a lot of it, in reality ive never retouched this way and im impressed srep by step whats going on with the image, love it, truly worth subscribing, thank u!

[@justinlaurens]

Wow really appreciate this comment, good feedback too. Thank you so much and stay tuned for more!

[@notallaboutmeministry3285]

Thanks

[@profocusphotos]

Can you do a simple and effective method?

[@pinglyk1592]

ขอบคุณครับ❤

[@Silon_YT]

What camera have you used to take this photo? The link in the description doesn't work :)

[@sadesign9575]

This video is so helpful that it doesn't feel rightful to watch free of cost

[@justinlaurens]

You're too kind my friend 🙏

[@raveldunningham9769]

7:34 just click ctrl(command)+shift+alt+E and make a new layer with all the adjustments. One less step on the workflow :)

[@avieshek]

All these years and today I learn the *Photos* App icon had a purpose all along - Upvoted.

[@justinlaurens]

Hahahah right!? Can never unsee it now 😂 🙌 thanks for watching man, appreciate the upvote. Take care & stay tuned :)

[@avieshek]

@@justinlaurens Shoutout to Shutterbug though for including you in the front page.

[@eddie_michael]

Very good

[@mikemike2627]

You touch so many buttons that I always avoid due to lack of knowledge. I’m about to start using them,I should say thank you.

[@pranatachannel2887]

terimakasih atas tutorialnya sangat membatu kami mengatasi shadow

[@monkeyattackedmyass5435]

Too many bring this up, now bring this down, lost some saturation, lets bring that up, now too much of this so lets bring this down, now lets add some of this, but that desaturated that so lets bring this up, now we need to lower this, but we'll need to add some blue, now create another layer and bring up the yellow because now we have too much blue. Over all your advice is solid. But too many redundant steps stacked on top of each other that cancel each other out. Use the first few steps, carefully tweak, and then give it a rest. You'll get the same thing with half the steps. 👍

[@QuangTran-nv3ml]

Thanks

[@justinlaurens]

You're welcome man

[@leuvafamily8554]

super!

[@justinlaurens]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@wildelephant8404]

Please please make a video about bright airy colour tone 😌

[@justinlaurens]

OK I will

[@Elpirno15]

from me asking for help made. is it possible if the photo is from a cellphone that is less sharp and not as good as the camera you are using?

[@atulupadhyay6430]

Always love your video it's very informative. But I hate when I don't see consistent videos from you. Please take the KZbinr/content creator job seriously 💖🙏

[@justinlaurens]

I will I promise! I have a full content calendar setup - many new videos coming out and the plan is to post once every 2 weeks 🙏

[@michaellaurens6688]

We want more postssss!

[@JEDINITE30]

You don't have to first create a new layer to make a stamped visible layer. Shift+command+option+E will make a make a stamped layer above your work in one go. Great video as always.

[@DEEPAKYADAV-wn3dk]

But do you know if you made a new layer(on top of your active layer or on top), used brush clone stamp tool etc. and then used the shortcut it will make a stamp visible layer in that layer. That's why he told to do so, it will work for all and no one will face any problem. BTW i too thought this until I saw the problem happening in my projects. So, it's not your fault. It's time who teaches us.

[@JEDINITE30]

@@DEEPAKYADAV-wn3dk what problems are you referring to?

[@DEEPAKYADAV-wn3dk]

@@JEDINITE30 Problem is it will not make a new stamp visible layer on a stamp visible layer (you created before) and Second Problem is it will paste new stamp visble layer on a blank layer which u have used for some slight editing with brush. For example it will paste new stamp visible layer on a new layer u used for blemish removal if it's on the active layer. BTW I use CS6 maybe it's changed in newer versions. So forgive me if am wrong but ya, don't forget to tell me if I m wrong.

[@JEDINITE30]

@@DEEPAKYADAV-wn3dk Maybe it is CS6. But I've been using photoshop since cs2 and I can't recall that being an issue. If it was there, I don't remember. In this video, creating a new layer and then using the keyboard shortcut to put a stamped visible layer in the new layer isn't necessary, it's just and extra step in the workflow. The keyboard shortcut for a stamped visible layer is all that is needed to get the exact same end result, which is all of your work put together in a new layer above the stack..

[@DEEPAKYADAV-wn3dk]

@@JEDINITE30 ya but as I told I face issues. And I know too it's not necessary but Justin can tell what his students gonna use and do so he told a general method that everyone can use without any problem. Nice to talk to you.

[@joanaacquaye]

You mentioned Shift+Command+Option+N, if im correct, please where is the Option. Thank you

[@justinlaurens]

Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac)

[@aFoxyFox.]

Your voice kind of reminds us of Ewan McGregor in the Star Wars Prequels. They did some interesting color work in those films as well.

[@justinlaurens]

Ah appreciate it haha!

[@sachindalvi1058]

after following your all instructions I stuck on Camera raw filter, its not available in my photoshop, so is there any other option?🤯

[@measdaro359]

hansame teacher Nice Video

[@ThegoldengodTrini]

What camera and lens did you use? the links go nowhere

[@rostynventlua2525]

What photoshop app you’re using

[@PDKSHADES]

Found your channel randomly , if you could add that raw image which you edit that would be more helpful for beginners since we don't get our own image as of now ... Nice vid though

[@aidantobias2728]

Anyone else like the before more that the after ?

[@justinlaurens]

Before you were born or after? Lol jk

[@_kakaheri7407]

good good team

[@justinlaurens]

really appreciate it

[@maitommm]

Underated Photoshop Master🔥

[@devadarshanl375]

can u show how to master well in pen tool

[@chandrakumaryumnam6022]

Hello sir , what is the name of your editing software???

[@justinlaurens]

Photoshop

[@ThisKory]

This tutorial focuses more on how to brush up a photo for Instagram. I much prefer the tone of the models skin in the original image. It was more natural and the end result left a blueish gray tint on her skin (mainly seen on her shoulder) which just doesn't look good. Sure, the portrait "pops" more, but these definitely aren't "perfect skin tones" by all means, and her skin is left oversaturated. I think you took it overboard on this one. Less is more sometimes, and this is a perfect example of that.

[@svetlanagrobman3476]

Hi, Justin. I recently started following u and I noticed that u never use Lightroom. Unfortunately. I'm not good in Photoshop, so I'm wondering if u ever show something similar for Lightroom. Thanks.

[@justinlaurens]

Great suggestion! I will make a tutorial in Lightroom soon

[@BaqirLashari]

can i get the link of this picture?

[@EyerusalemStudioTube9954]

Good work ! So amezing +1sub to your channel

[@justinlaurens]

Thanks for the sub really appreciate it! Stay tuned for more!

[@sofiafathy4790]

❤️❤️❤️

[@justinlaurens]

🙌 🙌

[@phucoanhong1676]

Excuse me,how to download this app photoshop,pls !

[@karthikanbudan5774]

♥️♥️♥️

[@coolyungdru]

Thank you for this. Nevermind the assholes in the comment section who don't know how to appreciate free educational content. It seems you separate and color the shadow side separately. This might be a more precise way of doing things. Can't wait to try.

[@justinlaurens]

Ah you're awesome. Thanks so much my friend, hope the techniques help! Take care 🙌

[@SAMG-K-Studio]

nice just subscribed now ,but new time please try a black model if you can please i know am late

[@justinlaurens]

Of course man, and thank you!

[@azadlifestyle09]

Sera

[@bradcasper4823]

10:03 what's the shortcut?

[@zayadihzay9881]

dimana aku bisa mendapatkan preset ?/ cara membuat toun nya

[@pouriyaporzour7529]

😍

[@MrFreakinside]

Nice tutorial, pretty girl

[@justinlaurens]

Thank you 😊

[@kushanweddingphotography]

❤

[@TheAjiexman]

like it...

[@justinlaurens]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@SHOOKASTUDIO]

😊😊