The Secret Code to PERFECT SKIN TONES in Photoshop

[@PiXimperfect]

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I've been practicing on a lot of stock photos; it's crazy how much yellower some photos are before applying this. Changing the visibility of the adjustment layer is like night and day.

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[@ajitsandhu02]

I had to stop in the middle of the video to mention that you are the best instructor when it comes to photoshop tutorials, and never knew you could get the perfect skin tones so easily, Thanx for the video and keep making more videos like this.

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[@jhoang861]

in all my years trying to figure out skin correction, I think I finally found the holy grail! Thank you soooo much!!!

[@TungDavy]

I'm a DJ and a photographer/video maker. I like the nature skin tone but you made me re-think about photoshop skin tone. Made my day. Thank you.

[@derrickargent2475]

years and years as a freelancer and never saw this coming ! cant wait to use this and try it on old photographs to see how far off I was !

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[@KaReEdCa]

OMG!!!! This is by far the best skin tutorial ever!!! I have always had the hardest time toning my daughter's skin when doing adjustments. She has a beautiful tanned tone, but when applying adjustments, she would turn brown or orange. I just did a quick tone with the pallet and WOW!!! Thank you so much for all your work man. Hands down the best teacher in YT.

[@LaurelBlack1]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this! I feel like my eyes have been crossing trying to get the perfect skin tone...only to come back the next day and discover that it's too yellow/red/blue/whatever. This is super helpful!

[@rastAsia]

Your tutorials are bar none the best on YT and this one is by far the most incredible. Thank you for sharing your detailed knowledge.

[@HopePhotoG]

wow helpful, thank you for going into details and sharing the samples too. great tutorial. will be trying this out when i hook my computer up.

[@michelleporter2925]

I'm sorry I don't even know what your name is, but thank you from the bottom of my heart! Seriously, I have struggled with skin tones for years. And I LOVE the way you repeat the process in slightly different ways. You're incredible. xx

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Blown my mind! Thank you so much. Awesome teacher :)

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[@psycrow.]

This is the very best tutorial for skin tones ever. No one just ever taught it before. Sir, you've got a subscriber (i'm lying, i've subscribed months ago)!!

[@kilbsy]

Excellent tutorial, as usual!! Do you, or anyone else, know if this at all transferable to lightroom? It lacks comprehensive info pallette and sampling across RGB curves. But for a lot of similar images it could be useful as the corrected curve could be used across images.

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Best tutorial ever with clean voice and direction. Plus there is always new tricks and tips. Thanks to you

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[@madeleineretif5630]

As always, great tutorial! As a portrait photographer, I'm constantly dealing with skin tones. To have reference skin tones is pure gold!!

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Most. Useful. Tutorial. haha thanks this is helping me salvage some event photography I need to send to people. there was just such a difficult mix of orange candescent lighting and cool blue backlighting from windows. Now lets see if I can get this done before midnight

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This is so great! Thank you ! :)

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[@muhammadbasir83]

This is perfect bro. I am colourblind and always struggling with skin tone. Your videos helps me a lot.

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Honestly, I wonder if Adobe know these features exists.. Way to go buddy.. Keep up the good work!

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[@LProds]

This is very helpful for me for 2 reasons. I'm a very scientific person, so I like this approach. Also I'm not good with colors, in fact I have some deficiencies in the way I see colors, so being able to use numbers instead of trusting my eyes makes the hell of a difference. Thanks, you're the best.

[@LProds]

I ran into 2 problems though. The Average comes white if I hit cmd+J after making the selection. Only if I apply the filter with the area still selected it works. Another problem. After I hit shift + Alt to select a point, how do I get rid of that marker?

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Great job sir

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Great work

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[@woo.trouble5154]

If someone have problem with AVERAGE giving white color, to fix that just press CRTL when you click average and done! :)

[@seblukasser]

yeah I got this problem, but this doesnt fix it for me? or when do i start pressing ctrl?

[@seblukasser]

Ok I got it, THANKS

[@AlSo-Fotografie]

@@seblukasser can u tell me how does it work the strg? when ive to click it?

[@seblukasser]

Al So Ill check it for you tomorrow afternoon, I dont remember right now

[@TheLove99999]

What??

[@Maxmilion6004]

This was credited to you from the retouching academy.... mannnn.... I was spending so much time in the hue saturation fields it took me so long to get the skin decent. But I was noticing my eyes were playing tricks on me. This video saved so much time. Thank you for posting this

[@mali8389]

how do i make my own skin tone pallete? by averaging skin tones from a perfect image?

[@RobinGlaze]

I have struggled with skin tones for ever, particularly in open shade and under trees where there is a green cast. This technique is easy, fast and accurate. Thank you!!

[@anthonypc1]

That darkest tone sample is no where near as dark as a lot of people. Is there a color code to cover the full range of human skin tones ?

[@davidariza2320]

Anthony PC might be a little late but you can probably make it yourself. Just google a skin color chart, throw it in to photoshop and with the eye dropper select the skin tones and in the info chart you should see the color code.

[@sebastianholzl5187]

i think it will still fit your photos if you try, you know, the colour is merely there for the tone, you can make it darker all you want

[@Nilguiri]

Just darken them until it looks about right. I understand that they should have a similar proportion of RGB as a lighter skin. If not, make your own by sampling some photos. Cheers.

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Such a lovely style of teaching. I am very glad to learn tremendous and confident techniques.

[@mirablaues]

Great. I always have problems with the red saturation in lightroom. It is a pity that there is not the same system for LR. Thank you very much.

[@etienneamien]

Its a common problem with Sony exmor sensors, they will blow out the reds in strong mixed lighting. Try an old ccd base camera, the dynamic range is narrower but they dont have this issue

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My online Master ! you're the best ^^ ! Btw, can you teach me about Orton Effect please

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[@lydeeluckk]

Unfortunately this method is not working for me. Your examples have a lighter skin tone. Im working with a more brown skin tone and going through your example step by step warded me not that great skin tone results. The skin came out bluish pink and then it changes the overall color of the image. I think you give great tutorials but this one just didnt work for me. And the steps are so long. When you're editing 20+ images this can get really time consuming. Are you a photographer or a graphic designer? Because this just takes too long....

[@t.8936]

ME TOO!!!! It changed the skin tone to cotton candy pink. AND it only changes the lasso area. I mean, why would it change every inch of her skin unless it was selected anyways???? These people commenting it worked must be lying lol

[@RenoSydney]

A similar thing happened with me. If you're just basing it off the numbers in his download, there's a possibility you might be working in a different color space. sRGB vs Adobe RGB for instance. If you actually sample his palate, you'll see that your sample readings don't match his numbers. This threw me off for a while before I figured it out. The solution to that is to base it off the sample reading in the new color space, or convert your image's color space to his color space. Check the "Edit>Convert to Profile..." and related menu settings in PS. This obviously doesn't help with the fact that this method still takes an extremely long time, and is arbitrary than not (everyone has different skintones, theres no true "standard").

[@MarkAKathurima]

Whereas I love this guy's tutorials, the bottom line is that skin tones can't genuinely, truly be fixed with just presets. It requires understanding of lighting, dynamics of white balance, even monitor types and calibrations. I am now employing the use of colour checkers etc. to account for these subtle differences as and when they happen. You will continue to be frustrated, espoecially when dealing with darke tones. You also touch on an important point; this is just not an efficient workflow for working photographers if perhaps you are shooting say a fashion lookbook. Again, I recommend getting to grips with color checkers and manual white balance.

[@dugy40]

Love it. Going to watch it again and again till I memorize it. Thank you.

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Haha.. "You cannot trust your eye..." 😂😂😂

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[@chrisbos760]

I am very grateful for this video. I am colourblind and I am always struggling to get the skin tones right. This helps a great deal. For the third image it worked less well, but I think that is because the image straight out of the camera wasn't that good. I only work on pictures in Photoshop that are already good in their raw version. But again: thank you for your inspiring videos!!

[@se5908]

skin tones are always a result of direct light, the reflected light of the surroundings and the white balance, depending of the time of the day... they cant stand alone - and there is no perfect standard, only different skin types... there is no perfection - not even in a studio enviroment... - if you want to work fast and accurate, learn more about lighting, use a greycard or a color checker which is the common solution for incorrect skintones!

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You are the MASTER. Another great learning session - THANK YOU!!!

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[@timmykincaid]

Great Video! I wished you posted it like 10 years ago. I have always stressed about skin tones. I did go one step further with this. I'm lazy and don't want to edit each picture in photoshop. What I did was import your pallete in lightroom and got the values of each swatch. Top one is 83.9, 78.8, 72.8. I do one of the pictures in photoshop to get the average and stop there. I go back into lightroom and use the tone curve to match those numbers. Then I can Sync all of the pictures! Awesome. This is such a time saver. Thanks so much for your help. I love your videos.

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One of the best orators on KZbin in this category. Truly stellar, man.

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One of the best tutorials I've seen by FAR!! Thank you 🙏🏽

[@ckenshin]

I discovered your channel today and have been on a binge watching session. This one tip in particular has been a phenomenal help. Great job and thank you!

[@dansullivan239]

This method gives a great jumping off point to see if your skin tones are in the ballpark. A good guide line. Skin color is by far the most important color to get right in a portrait.

[@siwleung]

This is the most perfect tone correction technique out of those I have compared so far from KZbin. Thanks a lot.

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Thanks, Unmesh. By far the best PS tutorials on the web. A friend of mine who is a professional retoucher recommended you to me a couple of years ago, and I've been following ever since. Very professional presentation of the material and I like that you also include the theory behind the various functions within PS. I've still got a long way to go before I'll feel confident using PS, but it's great to have you as a guide. Thanks for your generous work on You Tube!

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Your instructions are so crystal clear

[@Schjoenz]

I have just downloaded the pallete... Thanks for sharing your great knowledge of Photoshop. I have learned so from you since I found your channel. It saved lots of my photos...

[@muddyexport5639]

Absolutely outstanding. New info for me. Very excited to learn. Thank you!!!

[@chrishay5442]

This is the most useful video i have watched in ages. Just tested it twice with great results. Thank you so much. Although I do add an extra 2 steps. I set the curves blend mode to Hue, and opacity at 50% 😊

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Best lessons on youtube IMO - very gifted teacher

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[@barrygreen9918]

Very interesting and very valuable. What are your thoughts on applying the correction process only to the skin areas. Suppose we have perfomed a White Balance (WB) correction to the image as a whole, then if we apply skin correction globally we would override the former WB. The look & feel of skin would be corrected, but look and feel of garments, etc would be altered ! Do you thnk we should still stick with a skin correction globally for sake of cohesion?

[@audreyc.6944]

Barry Green I had a similar question. This technique alters the color of the image based on an idealized skin tone, so wouldn't the WB of the whole image be thrown off?

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Simply love your tutorials. Simple and clean explanations.

[@guybooth20]

This is Brilliant! I’ve been struggling with getting skin ‘right’ and this method of matching skin in a photo to a correct/standard sample tone couldn’t be more logical - it’s a 'why didn’t I think of that before' method!

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Looks great! Going to need to watch this!

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