From the course: Retouching and Color Correcting Photography Portraits
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Lightroom color correction with Tone Curve
From the course: Retouching and Color Correcting Photography Portraits
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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Introduction to color2m 51s
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How to understand histograms2m
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Lightroom auto color correction2m 30s
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Lightroom color correction with Temp and Tint2m 45s
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Lightroom color correction with Tone Curve1m 56s
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Lightroom color correction with HSL2m 26s
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Set black and white points in Photoshop2m 41s
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Skin color by numbers in Photoshop7m
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Brighten or darken skin with Photoshop's Channel Mixer56s
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