Category Archives: Photoshop Elements

Adobe PSE6: Changing Skin Tones

Here’s a good one I found on Focal Press’s YouTube space. It’s a video showing a technique from Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Maximum Performance by Mark Galer. He shows how to use a Hue/Saturation layer to target just the sunburned color on a man’s face: he uses the eyedropper to select the color he wants to change, then cranks the saturation all the way up to see all the colors the eyedropper has picked up. Then he shows some tweaks on how to get rid of some of those tones to hone in on the specific color he wants to change.

I believe this one will work in Photoshop as well.

Check out FocalOnline on YouTube for more videos from its excellent line of photography books (Light: Science and Magic, etc.).

The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements

Richard Lynch has some inexpensive tool sets to add some of Photoshop’s capabilities to Photoshop Elements. The main site is here; the blog is here.