Create Beautiful Skin Tones Using Gradient Map in Photoshop

An amazing way to create and change skin tones and color in Photoshop using Gradient Maps. Instead of trying to fix the skin tone or modifying it, in this video, we will generate our own tones, choosing the desired highlight, mid-tone, and shadow! You can do this with or without a reference image. Whether you want to copy a skin tone from some other photo or you want to create your own, using Gradient maps makes it very simple, easy, and non-destructive.
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Fixing the skin tone or trying to get the skin tone you want by manipulating the curves or other adjustments can be difficult and time-consuming. In this tutorial, we are taking a whole new approach where instead of modifying what's already there, we are going to learn how to create out own skin tone. We'll do this using an awesome but ignored adjustment layer called: Gradient Map. This adjustment layer will allow you to choose the colors of highlights, shadows, and mid-tones of anything that is underneath this layer.
So the fundamental principle here is this: Using either a reference image, or by ourselves, we will select and choose the respective colors of highlights, shadows, and mid-tones and put it into gradient map. Then, using a mask, we will limit the effect to the skin. Of course, we would need other adjustment layers like curves, and Hue/Saturation to control the brightness/darkness of the skin and the intensity of the skin color respectively.
Hope this video helps you! Cheers!
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  • @AntonKrinichniy
    @AntonKrinichniy7 жыл бұрын

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    @stepitup54097 жыл бұрын

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    @CompositeNation7 жыл бұрын

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    @forumhound7 жыл бұрын

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    @travelusaaneel6 жыл бұрын

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    @fabiantorres46686 жыл бұрын

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    @AnwarKhawari6 жыл бұрын

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    @azeemshah94737 жыл бұрын

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    @MichauxJHyatt4 жыл бұрын

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    @BlackeyeCis6 жыл бұрын

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    @leppak420886 жыл бұрын

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    @Infos-More7 жыл бұрын

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  • @mahapurushtheman8173
    @mahapurushtheman81737 жыл бұрын

    I have moved from phlearn to this. Great job.

  • @allrunder9081

    @allrunder9081

    6 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @MaryFilkins

    @MaryFilkins

    5 жыл бұрын

    This guy rocks!!!

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    @alcidesmoreno9508

    4 жыл бұрын

    same this is the reason i left ph learn

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    @poeticdragon236 жыл бұрын

    You know your stuff!!

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    @TheBiggervern7 жыл бұрын

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    @MUTABAZISTUDIOS6 жыл бұрын

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  • @squareeyephoto
    @squareeyephoto6 жыл бұрын

    thanks.. i had no idea what gradient map did

  • @HashebAnzar
    @HashebAnzar5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir

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    @TheBaerserka6 жыл бұрын

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  • @SHYAMFER
    @SHYAMFER7 жыл бұрын

    Super video. Clearly and interestingly explained. Thank you. I had trouble in sampling the colors from the 'face'. Then only I realized that 'SAMPLE ALL LAYERS' need to be selected on top! Might be a useful hint to others. Thanks again....

  • @alpk84

    @alpk84

    4 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! it was driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @AzureSymbiote
    @AzureSymbiote Жыл бұрын

    Thanks.

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    @BossMaster12146 жыл бұрын

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    @rajendragaur64906 жыл бұрын

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  • @beegeesgraphics4153
    @beegeesgraphics41536 жыл бұрын

    thankyou sir

  • @Thefotofam
    @Thefotofam7 жыл бұрын

    hi umesh your videos are awesome and fully filled with a lot of knowledge really it taught me a lot of. BT I have one query on photoshop brushes. how they are rotated automatically???.. and yes it mostly happen in downloaded brushes... plzz make a video on this....

  • @artofdestiny
    @artofdestiny7 жыл бұрын

    nice dear

  • @ayadea6795
    @ayadea67957 жыл бұрын

    i'm shocked because of your voice quality. what microphone is that? did you process your voice track or leave it raw?

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    @aneesharis46616 жыл бұрын

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  • @vinvinvin19
    @vinvinvin196 жыл бұрын

    I'm a big fan of phlearn.....but you are way better than him!.....keep up your good work.

  • @aaryanqureshi5326
    @aaryanqureshi53266 жыл бұрын

    what i do when i am matching forground to background color this is my biggest problem plz make a video about it

  • @joeshannon1319
    @joeshannon13195 жыл бұрын

    (control and command C & control and command we) is that what you said bc its not working

  • @melodyreed9032
    @melodyreed90325 жыл бұрын

    great tutorial- but what am i doing wrong. every color I select on my gradient map is a dark green. It is not picking up the colors of the reference face HELP!

  • @Pyndle
    @Pyndle3 жыл бұрын

    My working document is 32bit, when I copy paste an image from the internet to sample from (in 8 bit) I get very different colors - do you know how I can solve this please?

  • @mjulien15
    @mjulien156 жыл бұрын

    When I go to sample the other face it doesn’t let me it’s still trying to pull samples from the picture I’m working on, what am I doing wrong?

  • @sumeetganguly
    @sumeetganguly7 жыл бұрын

    can you please make a video tutorial where you swap the face of model B on the body of model A and then match the skin tone .. please make at least 2 to 3 examples.. thank you ... like your videos a lot.

  • @Gimaldinov1
    @Gimaldinov14 жыл бұрын

    Hello. I’m artist from Russia, but I really like your vids. I have one question that bothers me for a long time. Is it really impossible to change one color of gradient map for fully 0 transparency? I know few settings in layer settings, but when I try to make it in gradient map menu, it doesn’t work. Please, if you know the answer, tell me) Thanks.

  • @marcocastellano2851
    @marcocastellano28515 жыл бұрын

    I have been watching photoshop tutorials for portrait editing for about a month now.I have yet to find anyone who comes close to Unmesh!

  • @aligee1962
    @aligee19626 жыл бұрын

    please sir make full video about Caricature that will be include also digital painting :)

  • @martinmukuka4864
    @martinmukuka48644 жыл бұрын

    where are the links of downloading photos? i want to learn more from you.

  • @sohelranatuhin4770
    @sohelranatuhin47706 жыл бұрын

    your awsome .... but I hope you do a light skin tone ..........

  • @kodjokpakossou2235
    @kodjokpakossou22356 жыл бұрын

    I would have given 2 likes if I could! awsome tricks!

  • @s_v_1
    @s_v_12 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful tutorial but everytime in examples you showed matching skin tones on lighter skin tone from darker skin tone , can u do tutorial on darker skin tone from lighter skin tone

  • @bhawnastudio3746
    @bhawnastudio37467 жыл бұрын

    sir ji ek video studio background remove par bnaea with .atn jisse one click me background change kia ja ske

  • @majelislaguanakindonesia2106
    @majelislaguanakindonesia21062 жыл бұрын

    Is that hair style common in India ?

  • @algernonlawrence1909
    @algernonlawrence19096 жыл бұрын

    This was amazing, but looks quite intense/hard

  • @gtr0071
    @gtr00717 жыл бұрын

    Nice video. ☺ next video request- tutorial on how to photoshop your eyebrows😀 😂😂

  • @pablobellini3320

    @pablobellini3320

    5 жыл бұрын

    Evil xD

  • @aurora_asteria6664
    @aurora_asteria66646 жыл бұрын

    Hello, can you avaible subtitles in spanish (youtube) in your videos please??? Your videos are amazing (really) and I wanna understand it better... Thanks :)

  • @abhin9117
    @abhin91176 жыл бұрын

    What is new in photoshop 2018

  • @TheTramos00
    @TheTramos006 жыл бұрын

    Gradients maps are an amazing tool for many situations but not for skin tones ! The colors of the face are matched but not the rest of the photo. In every example here the face stands out in a wrong way and that's the problem with this method. I'm also a fan of Gradients maps but not for skin tones correction !

  • @deepanshuchawla8071
    @deepanshuchawla8071 Жыл бұрын

    pata nhi kyun lekin mae ye smple images download nhi kr pa raha .

  • @ZuWins966
    @ZuWins9665 жыл бұрын

    watching your videos i feel i know nothing in ps

  • @tanmaychandane8279
    @tanmaychandane82797 жыл бұрын

    Small request! Please go on telling the shortcuts you use. It can be pain in the arse to search everything in thousand different options!