Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

106 Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Adjusting Skin Tones

6. Sharpen.

Try to perform sharpening as your last adjustment because other commands

can give you funky results on photos that have already been sharpened.

TIP When you’re in Quick Fix mode, you can switch back to Full Edit at any point if you want

tools or filters not available in Quick Fix.

Adjusting Skin Tones

If you’re like most amateur photographers, your most important photos are pic-

tures of people: your family, your friends, or even just fascinating strangers. Ele-

ments gives you yet another tool for making fast fixes—one that’s designed

especially for correcting photos that have people in them. This is the “Adjust Color

for Skin Tone” command, available in both the Quick Fix and Full Edit windows.

The name “Adjust Color for Skin Tone” may be a bit confusing. What this com-

mand actually does is adjust your entire image based on the skin tone of someone

in the photo. The idea behind “Adjust Color for Skin Tone” is that you may well

be much more interested in the way the people in your photos look than in how

the background looks. This command gives the highest priority to creating good

skin color. It’s an automatic fix, but there’s a dialog box where you can tweak the

results once you’ve previewed Elements’ suggested adjustments. To use the “Adjust

Color for Skin Tone” command:

1. Call up the “Adjust Color for Skin Tone” dialog ...