A TRIP TO NEW YORK: PART 3

So far, so good. I'm starting to get more comfortable with Photoshop. Ms. Paige's picture is now cropped, with a good resolution for printing. However, I don't really like the colours. Her skin is way too pale and her hair actually has a red tone that the photo doesn't render.

I know that it's possible to make colour adjustments in Photoshop. I noticed a few things in the Image menu regarding hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, colour balance and other adjustments... So many options, I'm lost.

I think I'll go ahead and watch a couple of videos below and practise along. It will surely help.

I would like the image to look less washed out, especially her skin which is too pale.
Ms. Paige's hair is actually redder than it looks in the picture. I need to correct this.
And finally, her eyes should be blue.

Ultimately, it should look like this:

After watching the videos and practising along, do I know what to do in order to reproduce the result above?

Hint: Vibrance needs to be adjusted until the skin appears pinker. For the eyes and the hair, we need to use adjustment layers and masks for the hue and saturation (watch the video about adjustment layers again if you need to).

I will open again the picture of Ms. Paige in Photoshop if necessary.

How exactly am I going to make the photo appear less washed out?

Well, it seems I don't really know how to do it after all. I need to see a little help.

My answer:

Here is the suggested operation. I'll compare it to what I wrote above.

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For more flexibility and in order to be able to make changes later, I will create a "Vibrance" adjustment mask and set the vibrance to +75.

I will now follow these instructions to adjust the vibrance of the picture. I'll click on the button below when I'm done.

Done!

Now, I will modify the hair colour to make it more red, as it is on the picture above.

How exactly am I going to do that in Photoshop?

My answer:

Here are the suggested steps. Does it look like what I wrote?

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First, I'll create an adjustment layer for the "hue/saturation". I will check the "colorize" box, set the hue to 15, the saturation to 43 and the brightness to -17. In the mask properties panel, I will invert the black and the white. Working with the paintbrush, I will paint all the hair area in white.

So, let's do this. I'll click on the button below when it's done.

Done!

OK, it's done!

I just need to do the same thing for the eyes. I'll do it right now.

Does my image look like the picture above? If not, since I used an adjustment layer, I can tweak my settings until I get the result I need.

Part 3: Adjusting the colours on Ms. Paige's picture