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Once you've gone through the process once, it will take you no more than about 5 minutes to achieve this result.

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But now you’ve got a gorgeous raw file with beautiful skin tone without having to dive deep into Photoshop, and the process takes only a few minutes in Capture One. (See more before/after examples below)Īs you’re working on the raw file, you have a lot of latitude to go in and revise anything you’ve done and change it as you like. Hit the 'M' key to hide the mask and reveal the final image. Let Capture One do the heavy lifting for you. Also, keep in mind that you don’t need to be perfect with the mask, as you can use the 'Refine Mask' feature to clean it up for you until the mask looks something like the screenshot below. Given the uncomplicated nature of the background and swimsuit in this image, simply erasing the parts around the skin would be quickest. As you’re working on a masked layer, you can deal with this in two ways: erase all the areas of the mask you don’t want, or invert the mask and paint the mask in the areas you do with the Brush tool. You’ll notice that since the mask is over the entire image, parts of the image you don’t want to match the skin (hair, lips, eyes, etc.) may also be affected. In the image above, it is selected, which is why the blue sky is grayed out.Īt this point, you're almost done. Once you are satisfied with the selection, you can toggle 'View Selected Color Range' on and off to see all the parts of the image your adjustments will affect. You can see the settings for this image below. Be delicate with the 'Lightness' slider, as while it’s useful and powerful, it can also flatten how the image looks if pushed a lot.

Move the Uniformity and Amount sliders around until you have an overall result you like. You can drag the parameters of that wedge around to expand or decrease the colors to your liking.

The dot in the center of the color wheel is the tone you’ve picked, and the wedge that surrounds it is all the colors that will be affected by the slider movements you’ll do next. Once you do, the color wheel will show a range of colors in which will be the tone you picked.

Using the eye-dropper, select a tone on the image you want to be your reference tone. Step 2Ĭlick on the Color Editor tool and select the tab labeled 'Skin Tone.' This tool is easy to use and works by having you pick a 'reference skin tone,' and then, it equalizes everything else to that using sliders. We create a mask over the whole image so we can easily see what’s being affected as we make adjustments, then we can go in and apply the mask only to the areas we like after. Doing so will lay a mask over the entire image, and you can toggle that mask on and off at any time by hitting the 'M' key. Obviously, we’ll want to keep areas like the lips and palms of the hands differentiated frankly, the whole body should have slight variances, and fortunately, Capture One’s layer opacity control and local adjustment masking makes this nuance not only possible but simple. What we want to do is harmonize all the skin to be more even, but not exactly the same. (You can see the exact values of any location in the image by moving the eyedropper from the White Balance tab around the image, and it’ll show in the bar above) This base image was shot in harsh, direct light, which is typically unforgiving, as it’s contrasty, which affects saturation, and of course, it highlights texture.Įven without makeup, our model, Christina, already has favorable skin by any standard, but we can see noticeable color shifts between different parts of her body, like higher green values in the torso and more reds in the arms. Here’s how, using the dedicated Skin Tone Tool.

Capture One removes that barrier from your path and makes achieving perfect skin easy for anyone. Historically, however, achieving even skin tones and retaining texture has been a complicated and involved process, typically requiring specialized knowledge in Photoshop and accessories like a Wacom pen tablet.

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While it is the prerogative of each person to adjust to taste, and 'rules' should not impede on creative license, skin tones that match throughout the body without affecting texture is a hallmark of someone who knows what they’re doing, and being able to fix skin tone is essential for professional images whether you shoot portraits, headshots, weddings, swimwear, dancers, or anything else.

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