How to Fix Skin Tone in Photoshop

Fixing skin tone in Photoshop is something that you can do with a wide variety of built in tools, like filters.

Today, I'm going to explain how to adjust skin tone in Photoshop. Now this could take a lifetime to master. It's a very complicated process depending on the skin tone and how much it varies, how clear the image is that you're adjusting, how clear the image will be or how fine the resolution when you eventually print or display your image. These are all variables. If you have a low res image it may be easier and that's what we're going to be working with today. I'm going to do a very basic example of how to adjust skin tone or reduce blemishes and things like that. And then more detailed just require really just more finesse. So this is the basics. Let's take a picture of myself and I have this scratch on my forehead. I also have red eye and things in this picture. We'll skip past that for a second and just focus on this blemish right here which was a scratch I had at the time. First thing you want to do is zoom in night and tight. And if you zoom in too much you start to kind of lose it in the other colors but just enough so that you can still see where it is and go over here to use my favorite tool which is the healing brush tool. And select the size that you would like. I'm actually using a good size right now which is 12. You're going to hold down option and click to a good point of skin, a good uniform point of skin that's sort of far away from that area but not too far because you want it to be roughly the same. And then just actually click and slide across. The healing brush tools actually just make that point of skin just like the other. So like the clear portion that you selected. You can do this multiple times if you'd like and make sure that it sort of more natural looking because sometimes if you just use a swipe you can see the swipe mark. And then when you zoom out as you can see the scratch is gone. So that's how to edit skin tone in Photoshop for adjusting blemishes and different skin variation in photos that you may be using. I hope you enjoyed. Thanks.