How to change yellowish orange skin to more natural tones?

6 years 7 months ago #541359 by Owen
I need some help here.  I'm not sure what happened with this portrait session, however my clients skin has a slight yellowish orange color to their skin.  I'd like to bring this to a more natural skin tone/color.  

So far I've adjusted the white balance in Lightroom, but it's not doing the job.  Any thoughts on how to approach this?  


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6 years 7 months ago #541364 by garyrhook
Have you use the HSL sliders to ever so slightly tweak the hue, etc? It can be helpful to push yellow towards orange, and orange toward red.


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6 years 7 months ago #541538 by Luca
Why does this happen?  The white balance being off? 


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6 years 7 months ago #541556 by Joves
Well Luca some people use spray tan crap, or the Trump effect. Yeah WB could have an effect, but some people just have weird colored skin. The might need to make a Not MY President plugin, to get rid of orange skin tones. :evil:


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6 years 7 months ago #541559 by Shadowfixer1

Owen wrote: I need some help here.  I'm not sure what happened with this portrait session, however my clients skin has a slight yellowish orange color to their skin.  I'd like to bring this to a more natural skin tone/color.  

So far I've adjusted the white balance in Lightroom, but it's not doing the job.  Any thoughts on how to approach this?  

Most likely a white balance issue. The best solution is the HSL panel in lightroom. I generally adjust the saturation and luminance to get the correct skin tones. I rarely touch the Hue slider unless the other two sliders don't accomplish the task. The Hue slider is best handled with very small adjustments. 
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6 years 7 months ago #541578 by effron
I'd adjust WB before touching the HSL, but it shows there are more than a few ways to skin a ...cat.

Why so serious?
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6 years 7 months ago #541653 by Joslyn

Shadowfixer1 wrote:

Owen wrote: I need some help here.  I'm not sure what happened with this portrait session, however my clients skin has a slight yellowish orange color to their skin.  I'd like to bring this to a more natural skin tone/color.  

So far I've adjusted the white balance in Lightroom, but it's not doing the job.  Any thoughts on how to approach this?  

Most likely a white balance issue. The best solution is the HSL panel in lightroom. I generally adjust the saturation and luminance to get the correct skin tones. I rarely touch the Hue slider unless the other two sliders don't accomplish the task. The Hue slider is best handled with very small adjustments. 


:agree:   


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6 years 7 months ago - 6 years 7 months ago #541694 by Shadowfixer1

effron wrote: I'd adjust WB before touching the HSL, but it shows there are more than a few ways to skin a ...cat.

The OP did say they had already adjusted the white balance but it didn't get the job done, so...... the next step is HSL which one of the most powerful sections in Lightroom
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