How To Get Creamy Skin Tones In Photos | Lightroom Tip

CC: Ever wondered how to get creamy skin tones? This is my secret for getting super creamy skin tones in your photos.
- So the first thing you're gonna wanna do is open Lightroom. You can see here I have Lightroom Mobile open, but this works on Lightroom Desktop as well. Then, you're gonna wanna open the tone curves. Make sure you're not in the RGB tone curves. But, just open this exposure curve tone.
- Before I show you this trick let me briefly explain to you what the tone curve does so you can understand what we're doing. So basically the exposure tone curve controls the lights and darks in the image and you are able to manipulate which areas of the photo become lighter and darker so at the very bottom of the tone curve we have blacks and shadows. The middle area is mid tones and then we have highlights and whites.
- So to do this creamy skin tone trick you're gonna wanna start by having these 3 points on your tone curve (as shown in video) and my trick is to take this middle point and drag it upward and what we're doing is we're adding brightness to the mid tones of the photo. That's gonna create a really creamy look to your skin tones. You can also take this middle point and you can just drag it down a little bit or drag it up depending on the skin tone. Remember that every skin tone is different so this point might need to be a little down or up, just depending.
- Here's the before and here's the after!
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[@flickdavidsadventures366]

This is just someone creating a short for the sake of having a short on KZbin

[@ricardoduartemusic]

Can’t you just boost the luminance on the oranges in the HSL panel? Lol

[@lindarostoll1508]

Awesome tip. Thank you 🎉

[@Eryn-oo2me]

Thanks!!

[@drugenforcementadministrat2716]

Tf is a creamy skin tone?

[@Tommybena]

what camera profile are you using? because thats looks a little bit different from sony cameras skin tones

[@user-oy5qw6bn1c]

Thank you so much😇🥺

[@Welcome28487]

Comments is savage lol. This is ok advice but I would think you would have to add a mask to the person first. We all evolving as photographers right..

[@BeTheRamMedia]

Thanks

[@yahbeaui]

What a hack

[@kirazollinger6834]

Thank you!

[@lifeof_robbie]

I’m here for the comments

[@ericjamesphotography]

I’m still confused, will this create Creamy skin tones?

[@themalluwanderer8140]

Nope

[@vueport99]

Absolutely not. It just fixes exposure problems

[@joekmorals]

thanks! This gonna help me a lot, Keep making more of these types of tips

[@hbhavsi]

Thank you for the very uninformative tip.

[@gabrielzorzan4451]

Average Sony shooter

[@Swole_Cole_]

Bro what tf is a “creamy” skin tone??? 🤮

[@sadeqsegaraga8766]

What is 'midtone'?

[@rserrasouza]

The midtones in my understanding, are the tones in the middle of the light spectrum, usually where skin tones reside in. So if you bring it up or down, the skin will be bright or darker because it resides on the middle of the brightness spectrum in a photo.

[@connorb5824]

Grey technically.

[@kaismaiza2580]

☕️

[@airsoftdemon12345678]

just makes your subject look fake and artificial.. stop doing this everyone.

[@vueport99]

Some people prefer fake. The best tip is to find a model with good skin or hire a makeup artist！then add good lighting

[@vernoncharlis8647]

This might actually work for black and dark skin tones, thank you. I was about to leave a really rough comment, if it didn't. 😏

[@Chris_edgardo]

I Love You for this thanks🥹🥹