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Lightroom color correction with Tone Curve

Lightroom color correction with Tone Curve

From the course: Retouching and Color Correcting Photography Portraits

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Lightroom color correction with Tone Curve

- [Instructor] Lightroom's tone curve in the develop module is often overlooked, but it's a powerful tool for correcting color. First let's adjust the exposure, it's a bit too hot. Ah, that's better. Once again, we have that yellow cast on her skin, and this is confirmed in the histogram. The RGB numbers show that red is greater than green is greater than blue, but red and green are too close and blue and green are too far apart. To counteract yellow in RGB, you add blue. Open the tone curve and click on the blue channel. The darker shade shows where the tones are in the blue channel. This spike represents the dark background, and her skin is over here. As the graphic indicates, pulling up on the curve adds blue and pulling down adds yellow. Since we want to adjust the skin tone, place the cursor and click to set a point. Now use the arrow keys to move it up or down. You could pull this up, but this is a more…

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