Making a model look tan

LRussoPhoto

I'm using Lightroom 5. If I want to help a model look more tan how would I do that?

D3Sshooter

Not that easy in LR 5, without seeing a picture it is a bit hard to make a comment.
Maybe the picture is just overexposed on the skin, then just slide down the exposure slider.
Or try to reduce the light slider.
You can also brush the skin with the skin softener brush and play a bit with the saturation and exposure of the brush. (maybe even change the temp slider)

However those are all limited actions, if you really want to improve the skin… then you will need Photoshop.


Kind regards

divamum

Not really practical in LR. You could bump up the oranges, but tht isn't gonna look great.

In PS, you can do it with a curves layer pretty easily..............

Foques

I usually fill separate layer with 280F0E and set the layer to soft light if the whole photo can be darkened a tad.
But it is in PS.. and I hate light room.

Though, when I was learning about using LR, I saved this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrYPCKuAcys
perhaps it may help?

Hackbone

If using photoshop I would pick a skin color you like, use your brush tool mode set to color, make a soft brush and drop your opacity down to 15 or 20 and brush back some color. Do it on another layer also.

LRussoPhoto

Did a small shoot with a female model this past weekend and spring is just starting so she is pretty pale. Just want to give her skin a little more color. I only have elements not the full photoshop, and I don't really know much about using it. If some one would like to take the time to explain what to so that would be great but I know it will take some time.

Bryce Wilson

So, OK, I'm an old fogey, but "back in the day" when presented with a model that was in need of a tan, we used a warming filter on the lens combined with the right Kodak film. Isn't there a "plug-in" for light-room that would provide the same effect?

divamum

There are some "warming filter" presets but, like everything in LR, it's global rather than specific. So everything else will also "go tan". You can up the oranges, boost vibrance and, if you're good with curves, adjust it that way (I admit I'm not au fait enough with LR curves to do it - I can do it on layers in PS, but it's a different process).

D3Sshooter

It's simple, LR can not be compared with CC.

LR is a raw processor & catalogue system and not an editor/retouch tool
CC is a retouch tool etc…..

In fact the LR raw processing is an extraction from CC raw, but then glorified (GUI).

Anyhow , for skin retouches there are many ways of doing it in CC and you can find many video's on the net. Just google for it.

It is always better to get it right during the moment of capture, and there are several ways to do that.
Make-up in the first instance, light and filters.

People that state that they hate LR need to think twice, i CC (PS) uses the same raw engine as LR without knowing it. The GUI is just not that nice. Of course if you only work with JPEG then yes you will not use the RAW processor. However in that case I do not consider this serious photography . Secondly, how do you do your indexing and storage in CC ? You can not . That is where LR is handy and secondly changes are not destructive to the source files, where as CC is destructive unless you make it into smart objects.(same as LR).

LRussoPhoto

Thanks for all the responses. If I want to use a warming gel on my strobe, would I leave the white balance in auto or set it to tungstine?

divamum

One other thing you could try in LR is using the brush and upping saturation in that... in LR5 you can also adjust the WB on the selective tool. Thinking it through, that's probably the easiest way to do it in LR

Bryce Wilson

I think you might get the results you desire by using this Tiffin filter, It produces lovely warm skin tones.

http://www.tiffen.com/displayproduct.html?tablename=filters&itemnum=72812

Personally, I hate doing post work. If I can get an image to look the way I want it straight out of the camera, I'm all for it.

zoomer

I click on the Elements Adjust for Skin Tone or use the vibrance warmth adustment in NIK.