From the course: Retouching and Color Correcting Photography Portraits

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Lightroom auto color correction

Lightroom auto color correction

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Lightroom auto color correction

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- [Instructor] There are lots of ways to correct skin color in Lightroom and Photoshop. In the next few movies, I'll show you some of my favorites. Go to the develop mode by pressing D, open basic. The histogram is a little to the left, so let's increase the exposure a bit. You can either adjust it with a slider or simply pull the histogram midtones, that looks good. The photo definitely has a warm color cast and the histogram confirms it. You can see the red and green channels and the yellow, where they overlap. To fix the color, open the white balance menu and select a preset. I'll try auto. That's pretty good but there's still a little bit of red in it, so let's undo it and we'll try another way. Click on the eyedropper. It activates the RGB numbers. Look for a neutral in the photograph. By neutral, I mean a color where the red, green and blue numbers are the same or close. Watch the numbers change as I move over the…

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