Shifting the Hue of the Red channel towards the orange (right) side ![]() ![]() Reduce Saturation and / or luminance in the Red channel and (sometimes) the Orange channel I find that changes in the HSL slider make less of a difference, and also are less predictable but can be helpful in conjunction with the Camera Calibration changes if you’re maxed out on those. There are some colour wheels at the bottom of the post to help further illustrate what we are trying to do in Camera Calibration here. Moving the Hue of the ‘Red Primary’ slightly to the right (roughly between +1 to +4) if the red cast is more of a deeper mauve red can help shift the reds closer to an orange red and work with the other changes to make the skin a little more natural looking- it really depends on the image whether it’s needed and how much. Slightly increase the saturation in ‘Green Primary’ and you will need to tweak the three to get the best balance of reducing the red color cast and preserving a natural skintone. Increase Saturday in ‘Blue Primary’ by roughly an equal amount to add some of the warmer skin tones- oranges and yellows back into the image, breathing life back into the skin but without so much of the deeper reds that were there initially. Don’t worry if your subject looks like death at this point. This pulls red out of all the pixels in the image, which also leads to desaturation in oranges and yellows. In my image (see gallery above) I started out pulling it right back to - 81. If you are editing a session from scratch you would start with a RAW image that has the right white balance ( tint/ temp), make the colour correction adjustments below, and then build your stylistic edits from that. More recently I’ve started learning and experimenting with colour correction techniques in the HSL and Camera Calibration - with edits that can be synced across multiple photos.īefore I go on I want to explain that I don’t necessarily want to get rid of all the colours from the environment reflecting onto the skin- after all I want the photo to look natural and authentic (rather than as if it was shot in a studio and stitched in), I just want for the colour casts to look less crazy and the skin to look more like skin. ![]() When editing a portrait session in Lightroom, I used to rely on using adjustment brushes to alter saturation, tint, temperature, and add a neutralising colour to specific areas, but this is time consuming and only feasible for a small number of hero shots. To be honest, most of the time when I shoot I like to position my subjects away from potential colour correction headaches - but sometimes the brick wall is irresistible and a shooting in a forest is always so worth it. I think most portrait photographers would agree with me when I say that the dealing with colour casts coming off a red brick wall and green grass are are a classic pain in the butt.
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