fixing skin colors using photoshop

[msbarnes]

I'm noob when it comes to photoshop. I normally shoot film, but recently, I've started shooting digital with my new-to-me Sony A7.

Anyways, the skin tones aren't very good (too yellow for my korean girlfriend). I don't know if this is an A7 "problem" or just a "digital" thing.

What's the best/easiest way of fixing this?

I shoot jpeg and try to mess with the white balance in-camera. Maybe, I actually need to learn photoshop. lol.

 

[Mackinaw]

Shooting RAW would help, very easy to adjust the temperature of the scene and alter the overall coloration.

If you prefer shooting JPEG’s, in Photoshop, go into the color balance option and take away yellow (move slider toward blue). You can also change Red/Cyan and Magenta/Green. Twiddling with these can usually get you to a color balance you like.

Jim B.

 

[Larry H-L]

Setting a custom white balance first, off of a white or gray card, will cetainly help with jpegs.

In Photoshop, for skin, try going to the "hue/saturation" setting, select the yellow slider, pull it toward magenta on Hue. If it still looks too yellow, select Saturation, pull it down, less saturation.

 

[x-ray]

Start by calibrating your monitor if you haven't. The problem could be there. Next as mentioned raw would be the best way and if you stay with jpg then Color balance controls. It might be different in your version of Photoshop but my version is command B to bring it up.

There are plenty of tricks. If it's one person and no others take the lasso tool and select around the area to be changed. No need to be precise. Put a little feathered edge on it and the. Go to adjustments replace color. Sample the cor you want to change and adjust fyzzyness and adjust the hue and saturation slides. I use this to remove red from sun burnt noses. Deselect and save. Works like a charm.

 

[kxl]

After monitor calibration....

1. Download the NIK plug-in collection ($149) from https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

2. Choose and apply the appropriate plug-in.

3. Apply micro adjustments (using the NIK interface), as needed.

 

[x-ray]

Building a profile for your specific camera and applying it in lightroom with raw files makes a huge difference. I ALWAYS use custom profiles for my cameras. Even then once in a while I have to over ride color and make adjustments.

I shoot raw always, shoot a gray card or reference, work on a cor calibrated monitor and use custom profiles and sample my neutral standard ( gray card or McBeth chart) and work in LightRoom. There's no shortcut to great color. Most cameras auto white is only close but rarely perfect.

 

[Dwig]

My personal approach to adjusting JPEGs in Ps is to first go to Preferences>Camera RAW and set the option to "open all supported JPEGs". This causes Ps to open the JPEGs in Camera RAW giving you access the very similar controls to those presented when you open a RAW file. Of course you don't have the range of adjustment as you would with a RAW file but the controls are easier to manage than the various Adjustment Layers in Ps. The most noticeable difference from RAW processing is that the color temp adjustment is not calibrated in degrees Kelvin, just -100 to +100.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Is there anything else in the photos that's the same tone as your girlfriend's skin tone? If not, you can either go into 'selective color' in PhotoShop, then choose the yellow channel and then add some red to the yellow (or whatever color you think might work) until you get close to her skin tone. You can also do this in PhotoShop RAW under 'hue'.

 

[Ranchu]

Set your camera to srgb instead of adobe98 and make some jpegs, look through your lens against your monitor, is it green or yellow.

 

[charjohncarter]

One: use a white balance white disc to set WB in custom before each portrait. http://www.ebay.com/itm/58mm-Neutra...e-Disc-Disk-/111731593296?hash=item1a03b8d050

Two: shoot in RAW and use MakeTIFF before using ColorPerfect.

Three: if still off use Color Varitation is PS or PSE to make minor adjustments.

Four: I also like RAW Therapee's Skin Tone adjustment.