hello everyone welcome back to illphocorphics.
in today's tutorial I will show you how to use five-step skin tone technique to
your portrait like a pro and give high-end skin tone with Photoshop I show
you the main five techniques that you can use to get this kind of skin tone so
watch carefully until the end of this tutorial and learn how to skin tone your
portrait like a pro I hope that you will like this tutorial so be sure to
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here in the magical world of Photoshop I have downloaded this beautiful image to
show you how to skin tone of this model in this portrait if you like to download
this image for practice just check the link in the description now first is
cleaning up the image if you go closer you will see lots of spots in the face
and you need to remove so just take time and remove the unwanted spots from the
face now that's okay I think this is OK now we need to smooth the skin for that
first convert the layer into a smart object to work with a non-destructive
way now go to the filter blur and surface blur now our just the skin
smoothness as you like I will go with 4% now hit OK next we are going to skin
tone our portrait and the model skin we will use the adjustments layer to color
grade and skin tone in the portrait so go the adjustments layer and take
selective color now selective color is very helpful when you want to color
grade specific color because we are targeting the skin tone of the model and
every skin has red and yellow color so we can target these two
colors with selective color now play around with this two color Channel and
also the sliders see what's perfect for your own image next we will more color
grade our image with color balance adjustments so go to the adjustments
layer and take the color balance in color balance you can target the
highlight mid-tone and shadow to color grade and give high and color grade
skintone so now change the tone and then adjust the color remember on thing you
don't apply too much color with the slider take plus or minus five highest
value and apply the color very carefully
next we are going to apply the gradient map to our portrait for the final touch
it will give the depth of the skin tone in the portrait so select the first
layer and then go adjustment layer take gradient map now you will see the
horrible effect on the portrait but don't worry we will fix it first click
to the color and you will see lots of color preset in here but I created my
own color preset for this gradient map apply it if you like to download the
gradient preset you can check the link in the description now you can see the
gradient map slider I make lots of points if you like you can also make
points like me take your time and create a gradient map it ok now we will blend
this gradient map with the image I will go with soft light blending mood because
this is perfect for my portrait but you can experiment with the blending option
and see what is perfect for your image after the decrease the opacity of the
layer around 20 to 25% and that's is done we apply five steps to color grade
and skin tone in our portraits see our final output now I just show you
the five steps technique of skin tone and color grade your portrait like a pro
this is a very useful technique almost all pro photographers and photo
editors use this technique to edit color grade and skin tone their portrait in
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