September 2009
Beginner
640 pages
26h 48m
English
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Adjusting Skin Tones
If you're like most amateur photographers, your most important photos are pictures of people: your family, your friends, or even just fascinating strangers. Elements gives you yet another tool for making fast fixes—one that's designed especially for correcting photos with people in them: The "Adjust Color for Skin Tone" command, available in both the Quick Fix and Full Edit windows.
The name "Adjust Color for Skin Tone" is a bit confusing. What this command actually does is adjust your whole image based on the skin tone of someone in the photo. The idea behind the command is that you may well be much more interested in the way the people in your photos look than in how the background looks. "Adjust Color for Skin Tone" 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:
Call up the "Adjust Color for Skin Tone" dialog box.
In either Quick Fix or Full Edit, go to Enhance → Adjust Color → "Adjust Color for Skin Tone". The dialog box shown in Figure 4-15 appears. You may need to move it out of the way of your photo so you can see what's happening.
Show Elements an area of skin to sample for calculating the color adjustments.
Once the dialog box appears, your cursor turns to an eyedropper. Just find a portion of your photo where your subject's skin has relatively good color, and click ...
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