how to get this skin tone in lightroom

<p>I came across this Indian wedding picture. Love the skin tone. Any idea how to achieve this particular skin tone using lightroom?<br>

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/p480x480/1379681_584902841545503_2107166876_n.jpg</p>

<p>another one <br>

https://scontent-b-sin.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1797436_633858079983312_847605030_n.jpg</p>

<p>This is more complicated than just using LR. The first issue is whether you're talking about the skin tone or the illumination on the face, which really brings out the smile, etc. If it's the latter, nothing you do in lightroom is going to get you the effect you want. You need to learn exposure, flash techniques and other skills. The second thing is you don't, as far as I'm concerned, "GET" skin tones. People have a wild array of naturally ocurring skin tones and you either capture them correctly or you don't. Post processing, no matter how advanced it might have become over the years, is not really "meant" to transform, say, relatively dark skinned people into caucasions or vice versa. Think about getting an accurate skin tone in your photographs through the use of a color corrected monitor, matched profiles, good lenses, lighting technique and all the other things that make photography so difficult and beautiful. Best of luck. js</p>

<p>+1 above<br /> Getting a well lit portrait is absolutely crucial to skin tone. I always look for soft indirect window light or similar, then bounce light back to the dark side face with a white reflector or fill with flash.</p>

<p>After that, I don't think the photographer did too much to achieve the warm and contrasty skin tones. Warmed up the temperature, slide the hue to the right to get rid of green hues, bumped up the contrast, applied a vignette, and played with the HSL sliders to selectively alter and punch up certain colors.</p>

<p>The second photo looks like he bumped up the black slider a bit and turned down the saturation to achieve that underdeveloped film look.</p>

<p>It looks like over done frequency separation to me, there are a million how to videos on youtube that really explain the process. But you can't do it in Lightroom, you need Photoshop, or a layers capable pixel editing program. Actually it looks so heavy handed it might just be an auto portrait skin smoothing plugin, but the frequency separation would do the job much better.</p>

<p>Why does it look like that? Look at the eyes, the first has crows feet lines coming off the corners of her eyes, and a little lineyness below her eyes, there is no way they are the only lines on her face. Similar on the second image, look at the texture in the makeup above her eye, well that texture should be in her skin as a minimum.</p>

<p>If you want to send me an image, either inline or privately, I'll do a quick retouch for you. This look has nothing to do with illumination or exposure, sure you can't make a bad picture good, but you can get "good" skin tone in the worst of images.</p>