How to Retouch and Color Adjustment on a Portrait

Retouch & color adjustment of a portrait

Color adjustment is something which can be used to transform the allover color tone of the entire image. We can add or remove color on the basis of our photo requirement. Sometimes after clicking the photo, photographers can’t be satisfied with the original color of the environment. With adjustment layers, we can apply edits on a different layer in the image, leaving the original image (background layer). The simplest way to adjustment layer tools is clicking an icon in the Adjustments panel. We can add more than one layer for better adjustment and complex editing. Moreover, we can also use a mask to apply adjustments to a particular part of an image.

Here is the comparison of before after edition of color adjustment of a portrait-

Now we can start the tutorial -

Step 1: Open image as a background you want to retouch

Step 2: Move cursor to the image > adjustments > brightness contrast

Step 3: A box will appear where brightness will adjust the light of the portrait and contrast will apply the depth of the light depends on your satisfaction. Here I fix brightness 39 and contrast 75 to apply the effect so nicely