CC: Ever wondered how to get creamy skin tones? This is my secret for getting super creamy skin tones in your photos.
- So the first thing you're gonna wanna do is open Lightroom. You can see here I have Lightroom Mobile open, but this works on Lightroom Desktop as well. Then, you're gonna wanna open the tone curves. Make sure you're not in the RGB tone curves. But, just open this exposure curve tone.
- Before I show you this trick let me briefly explain to you what the tone curve does so you can understand what we're doing. So basically the exposure tone curve controls the lights and darks in the image and you are able to manipulate which areas of the photo become lighter and darker so at the very bottom of the tone curve we have blacks and shadows. The middle area is mid tones and then we have highlights and whites.
- So to do this creamy skin tone trick you're gonna wanna start by having these 3 points on your tone curve (as shown in video) and my trick is to take this middle point and drag it upward and what we're doing is we're adding brightness to the mid tones of the photo. That's gonna create a really creamy look to your skin tones. You can also take this middle point and you can just drag it down a little bit or drag it up depending on the skin tone. Remember that every skin tone is different so this point might need to be a little down or up, just depending.
- Here's the before and here's the after!
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