How to Colour Correct Skin Tones in Photoshop [Skin Colour Correction Tutorial]

Hi everyone!
Today's Photoshop tutorial is all about how to colour correct skin tones in photoshop. (How to correct dull skin tones.)
I've filmed several similar tutorials on my channel before, however I wanted to post an updated skin colour correction tutorial in photoshop.
Hopefully you'll find this video to be helpful! 😊
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[@JerryLoisPhotography]

THANK YOU!!! I have been looking for a direct, concise way to manage basic skin color issues. Just shot an event in which one of the two hosts had dead-gray skin color (sadly her natural tones). Your tutorial helped me give some "life" back in a natural, believable (and complimentary) way!

[@bala1000mina]

Thank you so much Kayleigh for the informative tutorial! Learnt a lot! God bless you and good luck!

[@sujiitkundu9843]

Short but very effective way, nicely demonstrated as expected. ❤❤❤

[@applepiephotoandvideo5936]

This looks easy and just the way I can understand it for my lizard brain. Thank you.

[@chizama4110]

So helpful! Will there be a video for darker skin tones?

[@mr.ruachannel9517]

amazing ❤

[@derrickd5909]

That was definitely helpful

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks for watching Derrick! 😊

[@rickfarber4243]

Thanks for another helpful video. I'm curious about when you'd use Photoshop for this rather than doing it in Capture One.

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks for watching Rick!
I find Photoshop better for detail-oriented retouching. So if I have more extensive skin retouching to do, or more specific colour corrections on the skin tone, I'll generally use Photoshop for that. 🙂

[@rickfarber4243]

@@KayleighJune Thank you.

[@ajjohnson9463]

Always enjoy your work/tutorials. Quick question. What steps do you take to get color balance close in camera? Are you using a grey card or AWB? Do you use custom Kelvin temps or presets like flash, etc in the camera?

[@KayleighJune]

Thanks so much 😊
I tend to use white balance presets such as flash, but often I also utilise the manual white balance function on my camera as well. I don’t use a grey card and tend to do it all by eye/appearance these days. 😊

[@subashsharma4295]

May I know which monitor you are using.

[@wowandrss]

How do you approach skin tone in regards to it looking *real* ? Any retouching you can do is basically just art and is completely subjective so you could change someones skin color in a fairly large gradient. But how do you figure out what numbers to tweak so the photo matches the persons skin color 1:1 ? How does one figure that out.