Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

SELECT JUST SKIN TONES and adjust only the faces
Portrait retouchers spend a lot time working on faces,
improving color and tone, hiding blemishes,
enhancing eyes, and more. Yet even everyday
snapshots of people can be greatly improved by
editing the faces in the image. For example, a Levels
adjustment on just the faces can bring the attention
of the viewer to the subjects in the image and make
an everyday snapshot much more interesting.
However, making a selection of just the faces in a
photo can be difficult or time consuming.
Photoshop CS6 includes a new tool for limiting a
selection to the skin tones in a photograph. When you
choose Select ➪ Color Range, Photoshop
automatically selects what it sees as skins tones. You
can further refine the automatic selection by checking
the Detect Faces check box, which appears when the
Skin Tones color range menu is open.
You can use this new tool as a starting point and then
refine the facial selection with the other selection
tools to quickly get a more defined selection.
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Note: Photograph copyright
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1 Open a photograph showing a
face or faces.
2 Click Select.
3 Click Color Range.
The Color Range dialog box
appears.
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4 Click the Select drop-down menu
and click Skin Tones.
5 Click Detect Faces ( changes
to ).
6 Click the Selection Preview dropdown
menu.
7 Click White Matte.
Note: You can select any preview
color that makes viewing the
selected areas easier.
Note: Move the Color Range dialog
box so you can see more of the
photo.
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