Comments on: Photoshop 101: Correcting Skin Tones

By: Stormy

Stormy — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:48:32 +0000

The black layer doesn’t show up until you turn it on (on a PC, alt-click Mac cmd-click, the black layer – just the little square bit in the balance layer, not the layer itself). It is highlighted in the image above. Worked fine for me in CS4.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:18:14 +0000

I am having the same issue as Mindy and Jim here. I”m using CS4. Are we missing a step when we use the Black fill? I go to edit, fill, and i pick black, leave all other boxes at their current values (mode normal, opacity 100%). The small thumb in the adj layer turns black but my photo it self does not (when i do the fill on the actual photo it turns all black, just an fyi). When I paint, it is like when Jim does, a green mask overlay shows up but it doesn’t allow any pixels through. If I click the eye so I don’t see the base layer i just have a transparent layer. Hoping for an answer, because this method looks easier then my current method adjusting values in CMYK and going back to rbg, for a quick fix, especially for multi people photos.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:58:49 +0000

I have been desperately looking for a simple process like this as I suffer from Rosacea but I’m so disappointed that I couldn’t get it to work for me.
I’m using PS CS3 so maybe that’s the problem.
I get to the part where I use the brush with white paint, it shows up on the little thumbnail icon as white going on black but when I look at my photo the face is painted green.
I’ve checked the colour swatch at the bottom of the left legend and it says white foreground, so I don’t know why it shows up as green.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:48:03 +0000

I did steps one and two just as you said, except when i fill it in with black and then hit “Ok” the picture does not turn black like yours. It just returns to its normal color. What am I missing? I have CS5.5. Does that make a difference?

By: Paint Repair Kits

Paint Repair Kits — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:19:47 +0000

I’ve been searching for this precise information on this subject for a long time.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:07:05 +0000

Dear Tim,
i took your idea and found it also works if you set the colour balance layer then just use the erase tool to take out areas where you dont want the lighter colour. but thaks for a great tutorial, really helped me with some rather silly looking photos ^^

By: stewie

stewie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:19:28 +0000

haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed

By: ron

ron — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:25:28 +0000

or you could easily repair it with nikons capture nx. Very simple and no masking or layers!

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By: Scott Hampton

Scott Hampton — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:46:08 +0000

Hey guys.
What about the match color feature in Photoshop? I’ve seen it in use a coupla times, but haven’t done it myself. You essentially have a source image and a target image. You tell PS what the source is and it puts that color onto the target…