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Even out skin color with Photoshop

Even out skin color with Photoshop

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Even out skin color with Photoshop

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- [Instructor] Skin is not uniform in color. It's common to have areas of red or blue and even green. An easy way to fix this is with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. So let's take the red out of this man's face. Add the Hue/Saturation layer and then isolate the reds in the pull-down menu. Select the eyedropper on the left. The sample size should be 3 by 3, so you can better isolate the color you want. Pick a red area and click on it. The gradient below the tools has changed. The dark gray in the middle is the exact color I picked. The lighter gray is where the color fades off. Now use the minus eyedropper to select the more even skin color. This is a color that you want to replace the red color with. Move the Hue slider all the way to the left. This shows you the color that will be replaced. Adjust it by moving the slider on the right until only the skin's red areas are selected. Drag the Hue slider back to the right…

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