Removing skin redness

[JohnT]

I'm working on a portrait of a young man whose nose bridge has some redness. How would you recommend I go about removing the redness in PSCS3?

(I would post the image, but I'm in the middle of working on it.)

[Wil_Bloodworth]

John,

There are several ways to do that... and they're hard (for me) to explain in a post. You could use a brush with the mode setting to desaturate... or you could add a layer and just adjust the color for that level and then erase everywhere except for where you needed the adjustments (sloppy method). There are probably 100 different ways to do it.

- Wil

[JohnT]

Thanks, Wil. That's what I figured so I'm off in search of tutorials.

[bburton]

John, you might try cloning at 40-70% opacity from an area of the face where the color looks better.

[gmarblestone]

i agree.. this works really well for me...

Originally Posted by bburton

John, you might try cloning at 40-70% opacity from an area of the face where the color looks better.

[JohnT]

Originally Posted by bburton

John, you might try cloning at 40-70% opacity from an area of the face where the color looks better.

Thanks, Bruce. I'll give it a try and see if I can make it look natural, which is oftentimes the challenge for me.

[tjones0214]

I've seen and used a technique for removing a 5 o'clock shadow from a male portrait (used it on some females too...ouch). Use your clone tool like Bruce suggests and set the layer mode to Soft Light. Drop your opacity down to about 20-30% (you'll have to play w/it based on the pic). Choose a clone point with the color/texture you want and clone away. It should pull the red right out. Will is right, there are about 100 ways to do this...just experiment around.

[adirty1]

add selective color adjustment layer
subtract the red or add cyan which ever way works for ya.

you can then add a hue/sat adjustment and tweak from there too.

[luis_relampago]

You can add a hue and sat adjustment layer and work on the red channel to bring it to a nice level.

[cytime1000]

using the hue and saturation adj layer select reds then use the eyedropper to select the red skin use+tool eyedropper to get more of the red range then use the -tool to select good skin this narrows the selected skin. Adjust the hue and saturation level til it matches the good skin. I then add a layer mask and paint over the red skin so it doesn't effect anything else in my image and use opacity to vary the effect. Here is a good tutorial:

http://www.varis.com/StepByStep/HSCc...lorCorrect.PDF

[JohnT]

Thanks for all the replies. I ended up using the cloning method as suggested, and it worked quite well. I plan on trying the other methods when I have more time to see which one suits my workflow best.