brightness, channels, CMYK, colour sampler tool, colour wheel, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, layer mask, levels command, midtones, neutral colours, opacity, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, skin tones, swatches, video tutorial
With one foot inside the CMYK colour space but the other firmly rooted to RGB land we begin to harness the power of number-based skin tone adjustments using the colour sampler tool and the levels command. Altogether a more involved but highly rewarding way to work that's employed by studios and portrait professionals around the world.
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brightness, channels, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, levels command, midtones, neutral colours, opacity, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, skin tones, swatches, video tutorial
Modifying skin tones can be a tricky task, thankfully within levels we have a number of fully-adjustable yet simple techniques that wield some great results. Some of these results depend on the user’s perception of what's right, or what's wrong, with the colour of the skin, other results are aided by a library of skin tone swatches that are prepared to work overtime to get you the results you demand.
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In this tutorial I'll be looking at the Swatches Palette and how we can use it to save and retrieve colour information inside of photoshop. Swatches isn't a basic necessity in Photoshop, but there's no question of the accuracy to be gained and the time to be saved from employing the usefulness of this palette.
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