How to Colour Grade and Correct Skin Tones with Luminosity Masks [Luminosity Masks Tutorial]

[@BertramMooreIII]

This has completely changed and improved my editing process. Thank you.

[@IlyaWazuhiru]

I sucked at retouching and colour-correcting the skin - until I discovered frequency separation and this. Thanks a million, a game-changer for me.

[@AlirezaS]

I think you could do all of these dodging and burnings with curves adjustment layers and blend if sliders (to target just the highlights & shadow areas!)

[@laxproductions6073]

I Love the Lesson, I've been looking for a way to give my pictures this look... Thank you so much!!!!!

[@robiijoness]

I Appreciate You For Posting This You Definitely Deserve Award For This

[@abigailbarlow5681]

This is perfect, now I have more control on the adjustments layers and correct target areas.

[@joshuasilvers899]

I'd say this video would have been impossible to follow along with and frustrating to try to watch a few months ago. But with a few other tutorials from others and lots (LOTS) of practice, I'd say I'm at the point of really appreciating this type of tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to post and explain. This was/is AWESOME!!!

[@ryandonkerman5089]

Again a great tutorial. LOL the filename cracks me up. So recognizable

[@alexandracombei1398]

I probably won’t use this anytime soon because I’m not a photographer, but I like watching your tutorials so much. You explain things so well and your photos are so beautiful so I really enjoy and appreciate your work. All the love 💕

[@KayleighJune]

Aww that's so sweet! Thank you so much for watching 🙂💕

[@kyratirona869]

Your videos are soooo helpful! I've been struggling to achieve the photos that I want for the longest time, but you gave me hope. Thank you so much 🙏🏻

[@sholathephotographer1650]

your pictures are really soft and very nice i love your work

[@anwosu5777]

Your work is amazing Kayleigh! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in such a generous way. I've been shooting dark-skinned models recently and the outcomes with these methods sometimes differ with skin tone. I'd love to see you do a dark skin tutorial (for dodge+burn & luminosity/colour grading)

[@StrandandThread]

wow! What a game changer for me! You just unlocked a whole new world in photoshop for me. Thanks!

[@kajkaj]

Haha same boat

[@fangbifxx]

This is very helpful and easy to understand.

[@paulby88able]

Thanks for the video learn alot from this video need practice and colouring is difficult to do

[@TrinhTran-h8f]

so useful and easy to understand!! I think if we can know your thought process explaining the color choices in the curve RGB, it'd be better to understand color grading. I understand it's lots of training for the eyes and you don't get it right away..

[@Andreassavvides78]

High although i admire your videos and are really helpful i found this way of luminocity masks complicated. I saw another tutorial ( from another retoucher) that its explain the luminocity masks throught the color range and personally i found it much more easy to understand, and there is an option to choose the fuzziness too.

[@anthonymathon1552]

Can you link it please. If love to see it

[@Dionne.Photography]

Game changer!!! Thank You Kayleigh!!!

[@johnfretz1938]

Super helpful. Thanks for the tips.

[@sujiitkundu9843]

Nicely demonstrated.

[@zooey2810]

Great tutorial! I used to use Select -> Color Range -> H/M/S to create Luminosity Masks, but I think your technique is better. Thanks!

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks so much! 😀

[@lawaii2024]

Exceptional approach, Kayleigh!!!!

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks Troy! 🙂

[@mauricioarouesty3463]

Great tutorial

[@martinbryan137]

You're brilliant!! Honestly, you should make an e-book!

[@zxyelenaxz]

Just BRILLIANT! Thank you for sharing!

[@MD-cu6wq]

you edit skin beautifully! thanks for sharing!

[@atadz4869]

this is perfect!!! I'm impatiently waiting for more tutorials !!

[@victoiredouniama9125]

Hi keyleigh can you please make a similar tutorial for dark skin? PS: I love your videos. Love from brazzaville ✨

[@girl5612]

Very detailed information.. One of the best tutorials 👌🏼☺️I Can always trust on Kayleigh with blind eyes🙏

[@darnellreid458]

I love for this series! You’ve helped me so much over these past weeks. 🙏

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks for watching Darnell! I really appreciate that and I'm so grateful that you're enjoying the videos ☺

[@darnellreid458]

Please don’t stop! 🙅🏾‍♂️

[@Lena-sv2du]

this is my favorite episode in the series so far ☺️I think I will definitely use this in the future Before you started this series I had real troubles understanding layers in photoshop even though I have watched countless tutourials but this really made it click with me

[@KayleighJune]

Oh I'm so glad! Thank you so much for watching, I'm really happy that these tutorials have been helpful for you ☺

[@PabloLaraH]

It is super helpful. Thank you for these series, Kayleigh!

[@ninaduque2993]

You explained some steps to color grading in a previous video. Do you use both method or just pick one?

[@AhmedFaris76]

This is such a great video , cheers!!

[@snax_4820]

Great tutorial! Thanks.

[@-norsecode-]

Why not turn "preserve luminosity" on when using "color balance"? What are the benefits of turning it on or off? Thanks!

[@zaur1703]

the best tutorial ever! thank you

[@KayleighJune]

No worries! And thank you so much 😊

[@ArnoldRossa]

your voice is a amazing and I love your work ! thank you so much

[@erre333]

WOW i must say you are to kind to share all this knowledge. Thank you so much great set of videos.

[@KayleighJune]

No problem at all! Thanks so much for watching 😊

[@severineperina8997]

Thank you so much your videos are so good!!!

[@yukiko7628]

This was very helpful! Thank you

[@Dscoyii]

I can't wait to try out this technique!!! Thank you for this!!!

[@storysupport]

Hello Kayleigh. Why do you only use the midtones section of color balance (and not shadows & highlights), especially when you’re aiming to be specific to targeted parts of an image?

[@JohnJohnson-bo5sv]

Good stuff..I Liked/subbed

[@JetonAliji]

Great use of luminosity masks for portraits. More refined this way. Buy Lumenzia. It's 39$ and you have unlimited control over luminance masks. Best money spent.

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks so much! I've had a few recommendations for that so I'll have to check it out! 😁

[@dennismcruz]

This was great! I plan on making some actions based off these techniques. Thank you!

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks Dennis! Great to hear 😀

[@yoblanc0]

How could I use this technique with a portrait that isn’t a complete zoom/crop on the face, but more of of a full body + background portrait?

[@JoopZweetsok]

click with the grey point on the white of the eye that will do

[@ramiknfr]

Thanks, have you tried lumenzia?

[@maithalunde2959]

Woah! Thanks for sharing!! I always wondered how to do this.

[@nuke2you]

What product is used on the face to make it shiny? Your makeup artist is amazing!

[@krystofkalina3882]

Oh please... answer this! The skin looks really great!

[@whyamihere11]

Hey Kayleigh! can the first part making the highlights midtones and shadows be done as an action?

[@whyamihere11]

ok so i did it haha thank you! :D

[@krisapkris]

God bless you Kayleigh! Please let us know how we can make donations, that is incredible knowledges you’re sharing with us!

[@jimlee4187]

This is a very good tutorial, very good! Looking forward to having more good tutorials!

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks so much! :D

[@MatveyZ]

Great! Subscribed.

[@housewife2002]

Hello Kaleigh! I absolutely love your videos. They are so helpful in learning new ways to make photos look great! I have one question. When you started on this photo I noticed the layers 6 and 7 were just blank layers. Are these layers just 2 new layers above the background copy and maybe skin retouching? Thanks! Keep up the GREAT work!

[@KayleighJune]

Thank you so much! Yes they were blank layers for extra skin retouching prior to colour grading. Sometimes I'll use a new blank layer for painting colour onto the skin tone to smooth it out a bit more. :)

[@spencerselover]

Love the videos. Although quick question. Would using the layer blending options by alt double clicking a layer be a quicker way to select certain luminosity ranges? Not only that you can fine tune the selections a bit better. I don't know if this would be better or worse for any reason, this was the way I always did it myself.

[@vilemo75]

Very good tutorial thanks! Is it possible to buy from you completly beauty high-end retouch tutorial somewhere?

[@olena_goldmanns]

hi! I guess for apple it doesn't work with Shift+alt+ctrl --- don't work// but I'm going to do with 1st two, hope it's gonna work

[@sholathephotographer1650]

hi nice nice please how do you get to make your pictures soft?

[@francescoz1964]

Fantastic tutorial, thanks for sharing :)

[@KayleighJune]

No problem! Glad you like it 😊

[@DmitriMironov]

Dear kayleigh, is this luminosity technique can be intetchangeble with Dodge and Burn process? It's really interesting technique. You can change the luminosity within different ranges, The photo looks like it was dodge and burn processed after playing with the masks. Can i use this technique for a global Dodge and burn? Anyways, thank you for such informative video!

[@Maxmilion6004]

Tell me why this tutorial on creating luminosity masks is better than the paid ones. smh Thanks Kayleigh. I noticed when you do the luminosity masks and go to midtones highlights and shadows you still use the slider in color balance for midtones. Why is that? wouldn't you want to go highlights and shadows to match what you are doing with the luminosity masks? asking for a friend

[@veronikapap8781]

I'd be interested to know this too!

[@flyoverfredusa]

superb !

[@Sara-tp6zd]

Thank you so much

[@lylylong6275]

im sorry i still hard to know coz i use mac 2020 it really new and hope u have VId for mac ppl tks u so mush kisss have nice day

[@rafaelbenhaim3887]

Hi I wanted to know how to buy this action

[@MrDenniscrystal]

Thank you very much..

[@rivkiegrunwald5845]

This is amazing, thank you!

[@johnnygonzalez6964]

my left ear is happy

[@mariotsck]

Sorry I have problems to follow some instructions when I want select the brightess and the darkest areas is selecting the brightess area + ctrl once are selected the keyboards for the selection are shift + ctrl + alt ?

[@ameliaromulo12324]

What is your favorite lens to use for beauty shoots ? I’m looking into purchasing one but don’t know which one to get! Also, what flash brand do you usually use ? Thank you so much for your videos! They have been super helpful

[@DarksunDJ]

Good video but very confusing with the shortcuts...would have been great if you included the short cut for Mac users too

[@dima.smotrit]

great ! thanks !

[@rafaelbenhaim3887]

How do I buy this action

[@MOVESANDSEA]

Hello June , Thank you for your helpfull turtorials! Question about this one above: How do you save the image? If I use luminosity masks by channels .I get a very weird thumbnail in my Window Explorer. It looks a lke a sort of negative Do you know what causes this? Never had this before. And I don't know if the image stays usefull. In one piece... I would like to safe it as a Tiff Thanks

[@quynhle6171]

your alpha channels are causing that. You can either delete all those channels if you no longer need them. OR create a blank alpha channel above all those channels to hide them in your preview.

[@kochavigivoni5814]

Wow!!!

[@kyratirona869]

Hi Kayleigh! I followed all the steps but once I start to adjust the levels/color balance, it affects the whole image. Am I missing something? I'm using Photoshop CS6

[@kyratirona869]

woops nevermind, I think I got it! If you overdo the adjustments, does it affect the whole image?

[@atlasmoon5497]

AMAZING

[@llkk5434]

Well done!🙂

[@KayleighJune]

Thank you! 🙂

[@Lifewithseanthony]

Hello, do you have an action preset for this in photoshop?

[@dawgyv72]

I can see some uses for this because of the selections, but in terms of editing, can't you just use split toning for color correction? And for the luminosity, cant you just do curves/levels and adjust the blending options to just apply to the brightest/darkest areas? Of course, it's about the result and having your process saved as an action removes any issue with this taking "too long". Cool video regardless from a fellow photographer-retoucher!

[@phongnguyenvl]

When I had the light and dark areas, I followed the instructions to select the brightest and darkest areas. I did this: Ctrl + click the highlight area then click Ctrl + Alt but the message appears: Warning: No pixels are more than 50% selected. instructions to help me

[@thegreatbigco]

Hi there - you can only see selections that have at least 50% opacity or more - there is still a selection but will not be visible on screen with the marching ants. Thus the areas are selected but they are too transparent (not strong enough) to show the selection. You will notice if you click OK; these areas will be there but just very faint / light and not very visible. You can increase their intensity by going to the top of the photoshop menu and brighten them with a simple levels or curves adjustment - do not try to use an adjustment layer here, as they will not work on the channel mask - you have to select it from the top menu (hope this all makes sense to you and happy retouching! ;) )

[@dbj1113]

hi Kayleigh,only recently found your channel here on yt.really enjoying your tutorials,and the explanations of what you are doing,and why.i use lumenzia from greg benz to create my luminosity masks in ps.he has a free luminosity mask panel for anyone who signs up for his newsletter.very good it is too.i went on to purchase the full masking panel from his site.maybe some of your own viewers could benefit from using this free panel,instead of making the luminosity masks for each image?please don't think I am undermining your methods in any way,just trying to be helpful as luminosity masking can be a bit confusing to begin with.

[@KayleighJune]

Not at all! Thank you for the suggestion Derek! I'll have to check it out myself 🙂 I absolutely agree, if there's an easier way to do certain things, or in a more helpful way for certain people, then why not! 😁

[@dbj1113]

@@KayleighJune -thanks Kayleigh,so glad you were not offended by my suggestion.-kzbin.info/door/qg4NBVlXBMRNvMGQ63cYfg

[@cameronblake3783]

Yes yes yes!

[@vilemo75]

Tutorial begins 1:57

[@raskitampati3558]

❤️❤️

[@christianpitschl9514]

Nice file name!

[@butchpouka]

like Alexandra i too won’t probably use this because basically i’m too dumb to master these subtle changes that makes your photos exceptionally amazing, mature and very professional...but i love your videos that way you explain and the music :) regarding the LM technique check your ig inbox thank you so much

[@KayleighJune]

Haha thank you! And I'm sure you'd be able to master it with no problem ☺ Thank you so much for the support of my videos! ❤

[@nikkijakubowski]

Idk what I am doing wrong but this really is not working for me

[@nicocastillo2099]

That file name though. :P

[@jingimage1108]

very detailed lol

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks! 🙂

[@DANNYBLVCK]

Music too loud

[@aliparman]

Not positive why It seemed to select the whole photo. I wasn't able to follow, definitely in the minority here.

[@stevenmeansphotography3861]

This is for the advanced not regular people lol

[@wurtzi1221]

The music is very distracting.

[@amanshaikh3685]

Bit confusing