How To Color Grade Skin Tones In Camera Raw & Photoshop | Photoshop Tutorial

Hello: what's up youtube photographer running suit and attra in this tutorial, i'm going to be showing you how you can color grade your images easily using camera or even photoshop. So i've noticed that so most of you actually don't have caption that i used to color grade and i want to show you an easy way of how to get the same. Look within photoshop. So i know this is what most of you have always wanted me to do, and this is a tutorial that i think most of you have always anticipated. So if actually, i've been waiting for such a tutorial make it a bonus to hit the like button. This video, so that youtube, can push and recommend this tutorial to many people out there, and this is going to also help the channel grow so make sure to hit like button on this video. So this is what we have and we already in the camera filter, and let me show you a quick before and after so this is the image before, and this is what we're going to be achieving in this very tutorial. So basically, let me first of all give you some brief information about this image. It is a raw file using taken using my canon, 6d camera and the settings that i showed the image at at ice 100. I use a tamron, 7200 f, 2.8 lens and i shot it at 117 millimeters and the f-stop was f5 and the shutter speed was uh one out of 320 of a second. So basically, these are settings in which i shot the image and you can see the before and after for the color green. So let's go straight into the color grading process. Just going to come right to this and i'm going to reset the image to default. You can understand everything about color grading within the camera filter. So when you come to the camera filter, what you have to understand or take into consideration, is before you calibrate an image, always make sure that you have corrected the lighting issues in the image and the contrast values, because that is going to give you appetite or It is going to make you really excited about calgary in the image, so it is like when you're cooking and you want to first of all prepare the ingredients before you can go ahead and cook or fry them. So, let's first of all do that in the basic adjustments. So i'm just going to come to the hairless and you can set most of the hairless in her jacket or her top right here or in her coat are really blown out. So i'm just going to come to the head and recover that by taking the highlights down and when you feel like that is not okay for you, you can as well come and take down the whites to get back more information, so i usually do this when It comes to over blown out areas, it may be gone than white outfits or reflective outfits or outfits that reflect color. So after i've done this, i just come and add contrast within the image, because i prefer images that look a little bit more contrasty. Then i'm going to open up the shadows slightly and simply take down my blacks a little bit, so that is going to add a richer contrast value within the image. Then what i tend to do next, i come and add clarity to the image after around five that looks okay and by just doing that you can see before and after so right now the image looks better and we have corrected the lighting and contrast issues within This fur image, so anything, is going to be coloring it and you're going to come straight down to our color mixer. So if i told you you don't have color mix and you have an older version of camera row, it may be called the hue saturation and luminance. So let me first of all go through these values and i explained them a little bit better. So, first of all, i'm going to first of all explain luminance. So luminous is the brightness or darkness of a given color. So luminous is the brightness value of a given color. For example, if i told you look at the greens, when you take the slider of the greens towards the right hand, side you're going to be brightening up the greens and when you take it towards the left hand side, you are basically going to be darkening. The greens in the image, so that is what luminous is all about the next we have saturation saturation basically is the intensity of a given color, for example, am first of all use greens, because the green color is a little bit more dominant than the rest of The colors in this photo, so if at all i take the saturation slider towards the left hand, side is going to decrease on the amount of greens within the image and taking it towards the right hand. Side is going to increase on the amount of the greens in the image, so this basically saturation is the intensity of a given color. Then this we also have the hue. So here's a little bit complicated to understand, but i'm going to make it as simple as possible for everyone to understand out there. So we are as we're going to be using the greens, because these are a little bit more dominant. So, basically, if at all we look at the hues, we are going to be changing a color to either look like a color on top of it as you're. Seeing this order right here or look like a color below the selected color. So let me first of all use the greens to explain this. So if i told you look at the the greens - and you click right here and drag it towards the left hand side, it means you're going to be making the greens like the color. On top of it, so, whichever color that you select and you move the slider towards the left hand, side you're going to be making that color look like the color on top of it. I hope i've explained that quite better. So if at all, you select a color and you move the slider under use and you move the greens, for example, towards the right hand, side you're, going to make the green color look like the color below it. So, whichever color you have selected when you move that slider under the hues towards the right hand, side you're going to be making it look like a color below it, and when you move this slider towards the left hand, side you're going to be making that color. Look like a color on top of it, so basically, that is how the hue option works within the color mixer or the hue saturation and luminance panel. So what we are going to do. First of all, we are first of all going to handle the skin tones of the model right here. So in order to 100 skin tones, we get basically going to make you can set. We have a little bit of an inconsistence within the skin color. We have a little bit of some red patches, for example, in the neck area, so just want to show them to look more on the orange side. So just going to come the reds and simply take the reds towards the orange side. And that is going to make or is going to make these colors blend a little bit more with the ones in the face of the model. So let me try to zoom out by using ctrl minus to zoom out you can set. The image is now having a better skin color so after that, i'm just going to come to this because it has made the face: look a little bit more on the orange side. So i'm just going to heal the oranges back towards the red side. So that is the first thing that i did when i was color grading, this very image. So after you have done this, the next thing that you would love to do when it comes to color grading. We are going to go straight into handling the background. Remember personally, i'm not a fan of this green color or the natural greens within an image. So what i'm going to do? Basically, i'm going to come to the hues of the greens and i'm going to make the greens more on the aqua side just like that, after around 60 that looks okay, then i'm going to come to my saturation and since the green is a little bit too Much i'm just going to come and basically take down that color or take out the greens and also completely or slightly take down the yellows just a little bit. So i feel, like the yellows, are a little bit distracting and taking out the attention from the model. I'Ll just come to the heels and also try to heal the yellows to look more on the green side. But this is going to make the green a little bit intense or too much. So we're just going to come back for the greens and yellows and simply take order back those and also take down the greens. So this looks okay, i'm just going to take this up slightly. So this looks okay and it looks fine. Then i'm going to come. The luminous and simply brighten up the greens because they're a little bit dark for my liking, i'll just come and brighten up the green color or the greens within the image just like that, so that it can be natural and blend in better with the image. So basically, this is what i did when i was color grading, this very image, and you can see a quick before and after before after and when you feel like it is a little bit intense or too much in the green color. You can as well come and desaturate that green color, so basically this is how to color grade your images using camera or photoshop, and if actually, i found the video helpful, don't forget to like this video don't forget to subscribe this channel. If i told you, i've been watching and you're not subscribed yet to this channel ronix from moon's photography. Thank you for watching i'll, see. You need more amazing, trolls and don't forget, keep practicing and also keep creating