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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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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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The term 'neutral colours' will feature a lot in the latter stages of this video series, so it's important to form an understanding of what it means - and how it can help us keep our colours accurate and true. On the other hand, adding saturation is the act of taking the colours, or more accurately the hues of an image, and making them more vivid by raising the intensity level - which is yet another level to understand!
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