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Hi Mick,
What kind of skin tone adjustment are you searching for? Do you mean bringing up an underexposed portrait image, or totally changing the hue of the skin color totally, or making the skin tone alittle warmer/cooler?
The best way to get accurate skin tones would be to use a white/gray card and custom-white-balance your images to eliminate any unwanted casts.
I find that gentle S-curves are best for dealing with portraits. The gentler the S-curves, the more subtle but more realistic the effect is. But it ultimately depends on lighting - I don't think there's any way Photoshop can rescue an image that has flat lighting (if that's what you are asking), or if it is severely overexposed, or if it has those specular flash highlights on the forehead/nose/etc.
Looking back at photos taken on ordinary Kodak films and processed by the local neighborhood photo store, I see that those pictures often have much better skin tones than most digitally captured ones. It puzzles me too, and I would like to see if anyone else has more answers and information. Thanks!
Wenyao
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Hi All,
Can somebody point me to a link or source that has a Beginners guide to Skin Tone adjustment in PS?
I realize that much of it has to do with getting the correct exposure at the time the shutter is pressed, but I've got a long way to go. Seems I always wash the skin tones out (at least compared to the Breeze Browser generated jpgs) when I edit my files (raw or jpeg)---and yep, I'm pretty consistent....I can edit a decent photo right into the garbage.
Any simple and/or elementary description (suggestions) on skin tone treatment would be most appreciated......obviously I realize my entire editing of digital photos may not be worth much, but thought I'd post the question anyhow......
if it matters(which I guess it could), I currently use a 1d, varying lenses, BB for conversion, and PS7 for editing.....for printing....only small prints (8x10s or smaller) done at Sam's or Walmart.
TIA,
Mick
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