From the course: Lighting for Photographers: Portraiture
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White balance for skin
From the course: Lighting for Photographers: Portraiture
White balance for skin
- [Instructor] The color of skin varies from person to person, and it also changes depending on the light source. To get it right, I often use a gray card to help me establish a constant neutral. Let me show you how this works. Open the photo that has a gray card in it. Go to Edit and scroll down to Color. Activate the eyedropper, and click on the middle gray square. Lightroom changes the white balance so that the color of the square is a neutral gray. That doesn't always mean the color looks the way I want it to look. It just gives me a base to work from. You can see that this looks a little too magenta. I want to take some of that away by adjusting the Temp and the Tint sliders. So this is where we started, and this is where we ended. To apply this to the rest of the photos, press G to go into the Grid View. With the adjusted image still selected, press Command + C to copy the white balance settings. Select the…
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