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

SELECT JUST SKIN TONES and adjust only the faces (continued)
Making selections of skin or faces generally requires
refining the selection. You can use the Quick Selection
tool or the Lasso to add to or delete from the
selection. With these tools, press and hold Option
(Alt) as you click to remove areas from the selection
or Ô (Ctrl) as you click to add areas to the selection.
You can also use the Quick Mask mode to edit the
selection by painting on the areas to keep with a
white paint brush or painting with a black paint brush
to remove areas from the selection.
Once your selection is made, you can then use any
tools to edit the area without affecting the
surrounding pixels.
You can use the Skin Tones selection option as in this
task to quickly brighten faces in a snapshot with a
Levels adjustment layer. However, you can also use
this Skin Tones selection tool and then invert the
selection to adjust the surrounding areas or clothes
instead.
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The selection marquee appears
on the photo.
Note: You can adjust the selection
using any of the selection tools as
in previous tasks to more precisely
select just the skin tones.
! Click the New Fill or Adjustment
Layer button.
@ Click the Levels adjustment layer.
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A A Levels adjustment layer and a
mask are added in the Layers
panel.
# Option+click (Alt+click) the layer
mask thumbnail on the
adjustment layer.
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