 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop 2022 tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to make skin or skin tones shine or glow or be a little bit brighter a little bit a little bit more salient let me show you exactly what I'm talking about here so here is with the original image and this is just the bottom layer as your original image it looks like it's even been applied through a little bit of a filter some sort of gingham filter perhaps and then here it is when I've made some adjustments to it I've made the skin and only the skin a little brighter a little bit of a glow to it so let me show you exactly how I did it I'm going to delete these layers we're going to start from scratch okay first layer is loaded up if you're following along put any old image in there as long as it's got some skin tones the next step is I'm going to left click on this layer and I'm going to drag and drop it on top of that plus sign that allows me to create a duplicate layer we are on our way all right the next step here is I'm going to go ahead and draw a mask around the skin so the skin tones and maybe a little bit of outside the skin but primarily skin tones so how do I do that the first step here I'm going to go to my quick selection tool and I'm just going to select here okay I'm going to get in here so okay don't want that so I'm just going to just get it relatively close this doesn't have to be perfect and I'm not going to go into taking out all the dark colors because again I'm just teaching you the technique if you want to really get into this you would of course would want to go in and use color selections but let's just do a rough outline okay I don't want that part of the hair okay so yeah again this is again this is very very rough but that's the point I'm just teaching you the technique that's all so there we go we've got some stuff here we've got a selection now the next step is if you're following along with me let's go back to where I was let's go back here the next step here is to select and mask so I'm going to select and mask it and then bang we're going to get the masking options for me I just like to increase the feather to about one pixel and I'm going to go ahead and shift the edge in one percentage so it kind of comes in a little bit so we don't get some of the rough edges they kind of get feathered and blurred again you can adjust this as you see fit but I'm just going to click okay so here's the selection we're working on all right the next step is we're going to go ahead and create an adjustment layer so head up to adjustments and for this one we're just going to do a simple brightness and contrast again there are multiple ways to do this do not get me wrong this is just one of the many different ways so for this one I'm going to go ahead and increase the brightness I'm going to show you what happens if we go to 100 it's way too bright obviously so let's just go ahead and jack it up to about 14 let's go to 15 and then I'm going to go ahead and increase the contrast as well that is on its way something like that what do you think okay cool all right now if I turn this off turn it on off on okay so you see where we're going with this right now basically we've gone ahead and done what we need to do but I'm going to go ahead over here and I'm just going to go ahead and grab the dodge and the burn tool so we're just going to go ahead and just make some little bit of adjustments so watch what happens here so as I'm just sort of clicking over her and actually I'm on the wrong layer pardon me I should be on the second layer I'm just going to go ahead and add in a little bit of hot spots a little bit bright spots wherever I see fit if I think it's a little too dark maybe I want it kind of on the edges so like the sun is touching the edges over right there okay cool something like that again this is the dodge tool and this needs to be on the layer I was on the mask earlier that's not correct so there let's see what we got here off on now again like I said there's multiple ways to do this but this is one of them it works great thanks for watching this tutorial ton more stuff coming up soon