With every new video-tip or tutorial you succeed to impress with your knowledge how to make an image shine and go from 'not bad' to 'woow - this is excellent'. Thank you so much Blake!

This is absolutely brilliant! Far better than how I have normally dealt with hot spots. Thank you.

I say this to myself every time I use your training video. You totally amaze me with your photoshop skills and the way to teach the lesson. You do not copy someone else work and slightly change it. It is all yours !

I’ve attempted this many times with unsatisfactory results. Here you come along with the missing pieces! Avid follower now. I can’t wait to see what else I can learn and improve on.

Probably the best tutorial I've seen on this topic, this is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you so much 🌹

Wow! So simple, and yet such great results! I am going to incorporate this "Trick" in my portraits retouching workflow. i use selective color for other purposes, but had never imagined it could be used for toning down the bright spots on a face.

Outstanding tutorial-- solves many issues, and no need to copy and patch and then reduce layer opacity which works-- but this works far better.

Oh my gosh! This is so helpful. Selective Colour is one of my favourite Photoshop tools for post-production. It's so simple to use and fixes so much, so much easier than more unwieldy tools like Replace Colour. (Never hear anyone else talking about this.)... But I never thought about using it for blowouts. So good. xx💐🍰

thank you , you save me a lot of time, I was doing it with selective control and your way it's faster

Blake, this technique has been a lifesaver as I continue to edit corporate head shots that were a little too blown out! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

You’re a boss dude. You just save a whole photoshoot for me that I shot on film. I wasn’t familiar with the film stock and was surprised when I scanned the photos as it’s usually hard to blow out highlights on film. But I messed up bad and now your trick has saved me. Sincere thanks!

This is the best I’ve have tried. Takes a little practice but very good technique……Thank you for sharing

Thank you! Excellent instructional video. Highest compliments!

Wonderful... I've been looking for ways to bring down this hot spots... and this techniques is simply brilliant... thank you...

wow that is amazing im flabbergasted portrait retouching is difficult at the best of times but this is amazing could you do a high end portrait retouching work flow and make it simple. frequency separation always gets mixed results for me and im not in to AI its just not the same as doing it your self i would ring that bell a million times after seeing this if i could

Thanks so much for this! The timing was spot on. I had just this shiny skin problem that a lot of current make up gives you and was searching for video solutions when I found yours. It worked first time and I will be able to deliver my job on time. People really must give this a go! Thanks again Blake. 👍😃

I use the Selective Color tool all the time, this is a very interesting technique, thanks for sharing.

The best way I've seen to deal with hot spots. Thank you, sir, I will now like and follow!

Thank you so much Blake for sharing all these great trip and lessons generously with the world! Best of luck!

Going to try this now. Thank you!!!!!

Dang. That's so simple! Great use of a tool I've struggled with in the past. Thanks, Blake!

Awesome lesson, Blake. I've used the selective color tool with disappointing results. This is going to help so much. Thanks for sharing this.

This is a great technique, Blake. Like all the others, it's a great tool in the box for the right job. Not so good on the wrong job so that's our challenge - to find the right tool. I take a lot of photos at church and our Pastor and one of our deacons is bald and with the lights we installed for livestreaming it's a mess and I've spent hours taking down shinies but this technique is a fast way to do it without all that masking and burning and color correcting... almost magical! Thanks

Awesome tutorial! Simple & yet effective.👍 Thank you🙏🏻

Your timing of releasing this video was perfect! We had a headshot session where the subject had these hotspots, and I struggle painting the correct colors and shading in frequency separation. I tried this technique. It worked perfectly!

This is great you solved my problem. Thank you so much

Intriguing. But for color accurate work (offset printing for imstance), frequency separation will be a better option. Exsisting skin tones can be sampled, ensuring perfect color when retouching hotspots.

Wow… Thanks for this brilliant solution to hot spots!

The photo was much better in the beginning. People doing dodge and burn and you taking that beautiful light...

Excellent tutorial! To think of all the time I've wasted trying to heal/clone away hot spots in someone's face...

Superb technique with amazing result 😍👍

This, combined with lessons 1 and 2 in the PE Tone Module, helps me understand tonal values a little better!

Brilliant. I love what it does to portraits. This is a common issue I run into. Thank you!

Thanks for this tip! Just tried it on one of my portraits and it worked great. This will definitely come in handy in the future.

This may be the most useful technique ever!!!

Wow! Amazing. Thank you

Brilliant, never thought of that. Many thanks Blake!

Thanks, Blake! Always learn a new concept.

Excellent work

Great tip. Have you tried inverting the Selective Color mask and “painting’ in the adjustment?

Tried it just now in PS....WOW!!! Now part of my post processing. Thank you!!!

Great solution to highlight blowout. Thought it worked better on the portrait examples than the landscape shot though. Thanks for teaching this.

Love it. No idiotic intro with rumble music, subtle transition, and very good tutorial

great explanation and use cases for this... thanks for the tips!

Hi, first of all thank you for your tutorial it's well explained. Second it's help me a lot for one of my nightmare lol

This is very brilliant... God Bless

This was so helpful for beginners like me. Thank you!

Great work bro very educative thanx just keep it flowing

Amazing and really useful. Thanks for all your videos

Thank you for the Lesson....

My dude that is brilliant! Nicely done, thanks for sharing with us!

Hopefully I'll remember to try this tonight after work so that it sinks into my brain, as it looks like it could be useful to me when dealing with clipped highlights. 👍

Great solution! Thank you for sharing.

I also like this tool so much. This is awesome

Great, need for the hour for me and thanks a ton

amazing content

brilliant solution, thx for sharing! obviously this is for high-end profile pictures that require more attention than ID photos and I'll be sticking to sample and brush to my id photos but this is great to have on my arsenal for future clients 👍

This will save our day, thanks a lot. Subscribed.😁

i like this. i will likely start using this. what i did to fix this was my own method... i'd duplicate my face layer and use the spot healing tool to make every white blown-out highlight skin-colored like the matching skin around it, and then moved around the opacity slider to make it look good.

Terrific tutorial

You are always coming up with little gems, Blake. I remember when you showed us a way to get rid of the camera hotspots in IR images and now I'm wondering if this way would work as well. Of course one would have to get one's head around the colour changes!

Simply amazing! Thank you, Blake.

i wish i had seen this video few weeks earlier but thank you.

Amazingly helpful and simple! Thank you 😊

You Sir are a genious! This is an incredible tutorial thank you.

Hi Blake, Thank you 🙏 Really helpful information ❤

Excellent!

Thankyou sir for the simply way

Lightroom healing brush tool does it in less than one second 🤷‍♂️ but this is something I want to experiment with.

This is really a great and easy solution...Thanks

Life changing! Thank you so much for this.

Dammmmmmmm this is really helpful. Thanks

Great advice -- I suggest masking to localise the adjustments and then using the black point rather than opacity to blend -- If one "only" uses opacity do the colours change as opacity changes -- I guess not but ????

Thank You So much !!!

Absolutely amazing 🎉

Game changer, thank you!

Good work

FANTASTIC!! FANTASTIC!!!!! FANTASTIC!!!!! 🙏🙏

Great content, very informative.

WOW absolutely awesome...

Good tips

Muchas gracias.

Thank you very much

it's extremally helpful tutorial... thanks 💙

Very cool - great tutorial

Great tips loved it ❤🎉

Good one...very handy

That's brillant!

Thank you 🙋‍♂️

this is gold, thank you so much.

Thank you! Do you know how to remove wrinkles in clothing in Photoshop?

You can add Blend if to make it even more selective to the highlights only

Thank you, Master ! (Not a bad word about Doritos ! You hear !)

Thanks for the gospel lesson !!!

cool. thanks

thanks man

Amazing tutorial. How did you get the colours to show on the selective colours tool. What I mean is showing what colours are affected when you move the sliders left or right.

Great tutorial as usual - much appreciated. It didn't seem so effective on the landscape example. I wonder if that was because the highlights were totally blownout, rather than adjusting the colour along a smooth gradient from the darker areas on the face to the brighter areas?

brilliant

Perfect timing as I was working on an image that had some hot spots. I experimented and it seemed that some of the skin texture was always softened/lost. I adjusted the opacity of the layer but it still didn't help that much. There is data in the highlighted area so is there a way to protect the texture of the skin? Enjoy your channel, thanks.