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Learn how to enhance flat lighting on tanned skin with Photoshop. This advance technique uses the red channel to enhance the highlights of the skin. Because this technique uses real data from the image instead of dodging and burning, this the final result is natural and real.

Enhance Lighting on Tanned Skin Photoshop Tutorial

Step 1

Open an image to edit. This photo effect only works on tanned skin tones with flat lighting.

Step 2

In the Layers pallet, click on the new adjustment layer button and in the menu that pops up, choose Channel Mixer.

Step 3

First, checkmark the Monochrome option at the bottom.

Then, change the settings to Red: 100%, Green: 0%, and Blue: 0% and click OK.

Here's what your image should look like; a beautiful black and white photo.