Need help editing this image!

[june_daley]

<p>Hi everyone,<br>

I don't know why I'm having such a problem with this photo, but I just can't make the skin tones look right! They seem to red/magenta but when I take either of those values down in hue/saturation or colour Balance it looks too green or blue. Just not sure what to do, can anyone have a play and see if they can fix it?</p>

<p>Thanks heaps!<br>

June</p><div></div>

[leicaglow]

<p>June, You didn't say too much about what's wrong with it, but I did a 1 minute fix in PS by doing a Select | Color Range on the skin areas that I wanted to adjust, then on Hue / Saturation, simply desaturated the skin selection to a more normal level. Aside from that, I'm not sure what you're going for. Your lighting ratios are pretty far off on this image.</p><div></div>

[sheldonnalos]

<p>Her skin tone looks fine to me. He's got a ruddy complexion. I'd create a Hue/Sat adjustment layer, desaturate the reds somewhat, invert the mask, paint over just his face with the brush tool on the mask using white, then use the opacity slider to dial it to a point where it's realistic but not distracting.</p>

<p>If you try to color correct out his natural complexion it's a lot more difficult and more prone to weird looking outcomes.</p>

[june_daley]

<p>Thanks for the responses - but I just realised, when I uploaded this photo it looks completely different to how it does in photoshop, the red is almost all gone! Why is that?</p>

[peano]

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<p>I just realised, when I uploaded this photo it looks completely different to how it does in photoshop, the red is almost all gone! Why is that?</p>

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<p>The large image you posted has an AdobeRGB profile embedded. You should use sRGB when posting on the web.<br>

I reduced the red in the skin tones with a selective color adjustment layer and the following settings, painted in selectively. I painted them in at 100% on the man's face because that was quite red; lower brush opacity for the woman.<br>

<img src="http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/9528/selcolor.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><img src="http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5918/redskinfix.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[JTG1]

<p>Heres my version.</p>

<p>~Jack</p>

<p> </p>

[JTG1]

<p>I'll try posting later (server issues again), hopefully PN will reboot their server.</p>

<p>~Jack</p><div></div>

[june_daley]

<p>David, how did you create the selective colour adjustment layer? I can't seem to find it in the menus anywhere...</p>

[peano]

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<p>David, how did you create the selective colour adjustment layer? I can't seem to find it in the menus anywhere...</p>

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<p>If you're using a full version of Photoshop, it's in this flyout menu at the bottom of the layers palette. If you're using Elements, I don't think that has selective color.<br>

<img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5977/selective.jpg" alt="" /></p>