From the course: Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish
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Fine-tuning color and tone
From the course: Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish
Fine-tuning color and tone
- [Chris] Next I wanna take a look at how we can use hue saturation adjustments and curves in order to fine tune the color and the look in the photograph. One of the things that I notice is that the neck is a little bit darker. And eventually I'm gonna add an adjustment layer which is using curves adjustment and create a little bit of an S curve. And when you do that what can happen is it can bring out colors in some unwanted ways. In other words, you can see how the overall color is much more saturated. Let me exaggerate for a moment. But can you see how on the edges we have these issues where this is definitely too dark and too red and too yellow. So knowing that that might happen when I make an adjustment in more subtle ways, I wanna prepare for that. So I'm gonna go to my hue saturation adjustment layer, grab the targeted adjustment tool icon, and click into the tones here in the neck, the yellows. And I'm just gonna pull some color out of that area and also brighten this up a…
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Introducing the project2m 46s
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Searching for the look6m 14s
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Cropping and basic adjustments4m 28s
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Fixing graduated adjustment and details3m 15s
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Retouching away small details4m 52s
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Retouching skin tones5m 9s
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Fine-tuning color and tone6m 38s
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Testing out other creative ideas5m 3s
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Photography your own celebrity3m 3s
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