Hi there, this is Unmesh from PiXimperfect. And today I'm going to share with you how
to add the popular golden shine to your portraits in Photoshop. So without any further ado, let's get started. Back in the magical world of Photoshop, and
you know how it is, if you want to go ahead and download this photo and follow along,
check the links in the description. Now, the idea here is very simple, we're going
to turn the skin into gold and then back it off, decrease the Opacity to add that golden
shine. That's the idea. So right now, our only focus is to turn the
skin to gold. That's it, all we got to do first is take
away the colors, because we're going to apply some gold to it, right, so we don't want all
these colors to come in the way, the color of the lips and the color of the eyes, we
don't want that to come in the way. So let's take it off. So create a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer. Click on the Adjustment layer icon and then
choose Hue/Saturation. Just decrease the Saturation. That's it. There are lots of ways to kind of desaturate,
but it will do for now. Now all we got to do is to add some shine
to it. What is the property of gold? It has some shine, right, we're going to add
the yellow later of the gold, but right now, let's add some shine to it. To add some highlights, let's create a Solid
Color Adjustment layer. Click on the Adjustment layer icon and then
choose Solid Color. And what color is the shine if it's a black
and white image? White, right? So we're going to choose the color White. We only want to apply the shine in the bright
areas of the image. How do we limit that? Very simple, you guessed it right, if you
did guess it. Blend If. Double click on the right hand side of the
layer right here. This opens up the Layer Style dialog box. Take the slider of the underlying layer from
left to right just like this. The solid color is being removed from the
dark areas of the underlying layer or the layers which are underneath it, which is the
Subject layer. Focus on just one area. Start from the top. We'll focus on the hands later, we'll focus
on the neck later. But right now, just let's focus on the cheek. Now this is very harsh. So hold the Alt key or the Option key, click
on the slider to break it apart and just create that kind of soft transition. Don't make it too soft. Soft enough to make it look like it's silver
right now. So right now we are creating silver, we'll
turn that to gold later. So this looks OK. Hit OK, right here, as you can see. Just hit OK. Now once we have applied the shine to a particular
area, we need to make sure that the shine is limited to just that area. Have a look at it. Right now it looks fine, no problem at all. But zoom out, have a look at this. This also has been added to the background
a little bit, to the hands a little bit. But right now, we're focusing on just this
area. So what do we do? We click on the Mask, press Ctrl or Command
+ I and then take the brush, right? Make sure the foreground color is white right
here and just paint on the areas where you intended to apply this. Right, just those areas. Now that we are done, let's target some other
areas. So, you can actually copy this one but, I'm
going to go ahead and create one more. Click on the Adjustment layer icon, choose
Solid Color Adjustment layer, choose white, hit OK, double click on the right hand side
of the layer. And this time let's focus on the other cheek. Take the slider of the underlying left from
left to right. And as you can see, we're focusing on just
this cheek right now. So we're going to go from here, hold the Alt
key or the Option key, click on the slider to break it apart. And there we are. That's a nice look. Hit OK. Now again, select the mask, press Ctrl or
Command + I, take the brush, foreground color - white, and just paint on that particular
area. Now sometimes you might have to decrease the
Opacity. Be aware of that. So let's zoom out and have a look at this. Here's the before, here's the after. Do you feel the need to decrease the Opacity? Not right now, it looks fine. But if you do, you can always decrease the
Opacity here. Maybe I'll decrease it a little bit. Let's go for somewhere about 90%. All right, time for the eyes. Click on the Adjustment layer icon again and
choose Solid Color Adjustment layer, choose white again, hit OK. We're actually repeating the process unless
we have covered all the areas of the skin. We're going to also add some shine to the
eyes as well. So, that's going to be fun. Double click on the right hand side of the
layer, opens up the Layer Style dialog box and this time, just focus on the eyes. Take the slider of the underlying layer from
left to right. And there we go. Have a look at the eyes. We don't want to add shine the white of the
eyes. I'm just looking at the eyeball right there. So, this looks perfect. We're going to start from here, hold the Alt
key or the Option key, click on the slider, break it apart. Take the other half to the right. Zoom out and have a look. That looks pretty okay. So hit OK. Click on the OK button. And now, you know what to do. Select the Mask - Ctrl or Command + I and
then take the Brush, foreground color - white and we're going to paint on the eyes, just
like that. There we are. If you wanted to paint a little bit on the
eye whites, you can do that too. Just a touch, right. Now, at the top of the eyes, how does it look? I don't think it looks good. So we're going to erase it from there. But maybe we can add some shine to some areas
of the image where the light is falling. So have a look at this. So this area is brighter, it should have a
little bit of shine. So we're going to give it a tiny dab. So dab it with white..Sorry. See the shine it's creating. Dab it right here, as well. See the shine. We need that golden shine. Let's create one more. Click on the Adjustment layer icon and then
Solid Color. You can skip the video if you wish to to this
- 9:07, to skip all the shining, because that's what we're going to do for a couple of minutes. So choose white, hit OK. This is a repetitive process. Double click on the right side of the layer
and then take the slider of the underlying layer from left to right. And this time we are focusing on, probably,
the forehead. And let's see how much shine we can get in
there. Not so much I guess. Hit OK. Click on the Mask - Ctrl or Command + I, take
the brush, white as the foreground color and let's try painting in here. Let's see what we can get here. Not much. Have a look at this. Here's the before, here's the after. It's okay. We can decrease the Opacity and work with
it, just a touch. Maybe we need to go back to the Blend If,
double click on the right hand side of the layer and take it a little bit more to the
right like this. Let's see if this works. Just a touch. This is not very instrumental. All right, now let's focus on the neck. Click again, click again, choose white, you
know the rules, and then double click on the right hand side of the layer, underlying layer,
we're going to take it to the right and this time we are focusing on just the neck. So the neck shining is okay. This much, this is where it will start. Hold the Alt key or the Option key, click
on the slider, break it apart and just a touch. Hit OK. Select the Mask, press Ctrl or Command + I. Now we're going to just paint over this area. You don't have to paint on the clothes, sweater
she's wearing, I guess it's a sweater. Correct me in the comments. Let's decrease the Opacity, see how it looks. Kinda looks okay, maybe with 75. All right, now let's go ahead and do the arms
fairly quickly. Click on the Adjustment layer icon and then
choose Solid Color. Again choose white, hit OK and double click
on the Adjustment layer icon, take the slider from left to right just like this. Now we are enhancing the knuckles. All right, hit OK. Let's see what we have here. It still looks very natural. Have a look, here's the before, here's the
after. We need to add some extra shine to it. Let's go back here. Let's see what we can do. We need to make sure that it's harsh. Alright, that looks okay, we can try that. Click on the Mask - Ctrl or Command + I and
then just paint white. Have a look. Even though it's harsh, we can control it
a little bit with Opacity. Now let's decrease the Opacity, see what we
can do. Zoom out. That's a good way to look at it. Yeah, that kind of looks good. We don't want to add so much shine that the
attention goes away from the face and goes to the hand. We don't want that. So, keeping that in mind, we will add something
like 65 here, right. Now let's add one more. Let's make a copy of the same - Ctrl or Command
+ J. And to remove the Mask, all you got to do - Ctrl or Command + A, all of it is now
selected, Mask is selected, foreground color - black, Alt + Backspace or Option + Delete
to completely fill it with black. Ctrl or Command + D to deselect. Now, select the Mask, Brush and then white
as the foreground color and paint on the right hand. See how this one looks. Yeah, that looks okay. Interesting. Now, let's create one more at the end. And we'll just try to add some more highlights
to the hand. See what we can do here. Maybe just a touch of highlights, Alright,
hit OK. Select the Mask - Ctrl or Command + I. And this time, let's zoom in and let's try
adding something here with a lower Flow. So let's get the Flow to about 20%, and with
white, we're going to try painting here, see what we get. Let's try painting here as well, adding some
more shine. There we are. Interesting. Now take the extra away. Great. So, here we have something with the shine,
but bright shine. But metal has one more thing. It also has some darkness to enhance the shine
even more. So now, we need to add the opposite of it. So click on the Adjustment layer icon and
this time we're going to create black. But if you choose absolute black, that's not
going to look right. So a little bit of grey, probably Brightness
level at about 10, Saturation and Hue at zero, hit OK. Now, we want to make sure that this darkens,
because this is not completely black, right. And to make sure that happens, we're going
to change the Blend Mode from Normal to Multiply right there. Okay, now we're going to do the exact same
thing that we did with the highlights, but this time, just a little opposite. Double click on the right side of the Adjustment
layer icon. This time, we're going to take away the bright
areas by taking the slider of the underlying layer from right to left instead of left to
right in case of highlights. So, let's do that. This looks to be good. Hold the Alt key or the Option key, click
on the slider, break it apart. See what we can do here. Yeah, that looks interesting. We can work with that. Hit OK. On the face - click on the Mask - Ctrl or
Command + I, and then take the brush, white as the foreground color. Let's try painting here. Let's see how it looks. Interesting. Have a look, here's the before, here's the
after. Look at the dimension it adds. Now we don't want to add darkness to the hair
as well. So let's take it away by painting black in
there, increase the Flow back to 100. We just want to add this to the face a little
bit. You can play with the Flow. Let's decrease it back to 10% to slowly add
it. Look at the metallic effect on the head. Interesting. Now let's try painting on the same layer in
this area. Let's see if it paints or not. No, it doesn't paint that much. The darkness on the lips doesn't look right. So we're going to erase it from here. Okay, now let's try some other areas. Have at look at it, it also darkened the eyes
a little bit. So we have to erase it from here as well. We kind of did it too much. All right, let's do one more. Click on the Adjustment layer icon and choose
Solid Color. This time again, we're going to choose Brightness
10. Hit OK. Change the Blend Mode to Multiply. You could have also copied this if you want
to. Double click on the right side of the layer
and then take the slider of the underlying layer from right to left. Let's see what other areas we can work with
this thing. Maybe a little bit of the neck. Hit OK. Select the Mask - Ctrl or Command + I and
then just paint with white in this area. Let's see what happens. Have a look here. Here's the before, here's the after. We don't want to add so much darkness. So we're going to erase it from the sides. But this is good. This is not bad. Have a look at this darkness. It's kind of too much. Let's go back to this. And then erase this area. All right. Now, that looks interesting. Now let's go ahead and do it in the hands. Let's make a copy of this one - Ctrl or Command
+ J, select the Mask - Ctrl or Command + A, and with black as the foreground color - Alt
+ Backspace or Option + Delete. Completely turn the Mask black. Now, we can turn off the Mask for a second
by holding the Shift key, clicking on the mask. This just simply turns off the Mask. Now let's go back to Blend If and control
it for the hand. See if we can do something there. Looks okay. Not amazing, but that's okay. Hit OK. Turn on the Mask, select the Brush and then
paint. Make sure Mask is selected, paint with white. Let's see what we can do here. Interesting. Let's try here, the same Mask. Just a little bit of, you know, definition
here and there. There you have it. So let's make a group of all of the things
that we have done up until now. So select the first Adjustment layer, hold
the Shift key and select the last one which was the Hue/Saturation and press Ctrl or Command
+ G. Now we have a group. Here's the before, here's the after. We are turning it into silver right now. Now it's time for us to turn it into gold,
and the only thing silver is missing to turn this into gold is the color, so let's add
the color. Now this is going to be super easy. All we have to do to add some color is to
add some Color Lookup Tables. That's it. So open up the group and select the top most
layer so that it adds to the top. Now click on the Adjustment layer icon and
then choose Color Lookup. Now the one that we're looking for right now
is EdgyAmber. It adds that golden effect. Select EdgyAmber. Have a look at this. Isn't that amazing? Now, don't worry about it. We're going to limit it with masks to just
the skin. But for now, we are applying it globally. This is, of course, too much. So let's go ahead and decrease the Opacity
to somewhere about 78-80%. That looks all right. Now, to add some more funk to it, I don't
know how to say it, I'm not getting an adjective for it, let's add one more Color Lookup Table. Click on the Adjustment layer icon, choose
Color Lookup and this time add some LateSunset. Now, this adds that kind of purply effect
to it. Of course, it is too much, but just a little
bit of it adds that kind of depth that makes it look authentic. Let's add 24 or 25..20% is perfectly okay. And let's increase this Opacity from 80-85
to add much more warmth to do it. Now we're getting closer. Now all we need to do is to mask it, just
to the skin and that's why we created the group. So, let's close the group. Select the group, click on this arrow, it
closes the group, and then create a Mask for this group. Hold the Alt key or the Option key, click
on the Mask button to create a Negative Mask. Now, we're going to take the brush, foreground
color - white and just paint on the skin. Increase the Flow. Now, at first look, it just doesn't look right. I know what you're thinking. But wait for it. This is also something, some kind of an effect
you can try if you want to. Now we have leaked the effect a little bit
on purpose. Now it's time for us to clean it. Change the foreground color from white to
black by pressing X to toggle between the foreground and the background and carefully
take this away from the areas where it shouldn't be which is everywhere except the skin. To clean it up properly and to see the Mask,
hold the Alt key or the Option key and then click on the Mask. Now you can clean the outside and paint the
inside. All right, let's do this hand. As you can see, it's done. But there is a problem. Before we go ahead and decrease the Opacity,
have a look at the golden effect. It looks perfectly fine. But if you look at the original image, the
shadows are not completely dark, right, they had a little bit of grey to it. So, the shadows were a little brighter. But if you look at the golden effect, the
dark areas are completely dark. So we need to match it first to that of the
original image. So inside the group, so open up the group,
let's zoom out to the image, and then let's create a Curves Adjustment layer. Select the top most Adjustment inside the
group and just inside the group, click on the Adjustment layer icon and then choose
Curves. Now, we're going to make it a little brighter,
we're going to make the shadows a little brighter to match. So as you can see, as soon as I take it up,
it starts matching. Here's the before, here is the after. See, it begins to start matching. You can actually take the midtones a little
up too if you want to, and have a look at this. Now, it looks better. Here's the before, here's the after - the
Golden Skin Effect. Now all we have to do is to just decrease
the Opacity as much as you like. This will add the golden shine. Look at that. This is actually the magic. You can choose how much you want to add. I like it at 48. You can choose whatever number you like. You can choose 40. It's absolutely a personal preference. Now here's an important thing, having a look,
as soon as we increase the Opacity, we are losing the color, we're losing the color of
the lips, a little bit of the eyes. So how do we get the color back? Well, we need to decrease the Opacity of something
else for it. And that is the Hue/Saturation that we used
to create the black and white. So let's go ahead and keep the Opacity of
this one back to 45% and let's open this one and let's control the Hue/Saturation right
there. You can also control the Saturation or you
can also control the Opacity of this thing. So if you decrease the Opacity, you get back
all the colors you wanted. But we want to take away the colors just a
little bit because it's getting a little too saturated. So we're going to keep it at about 20%. How do you feel about that? How about 50%? 50% is kind of too much. Here's the before, here's the after. I know it's too much. Let's keep it at 20%. Now have a look. It looks fantastic, doesn't it? So 45%. Here's the before, here's the after. Now, if you want, let's change it to 40. Something in me tells me I should change it. If you want, you can also add some global
effects on top of it to make it even more interesting. So let's go ahead and add some warmth to it. So above the group, we're going to create
one more Color Lookup Adjustment layer. Click on the Adjustment layer icon and then
choose Color Lookup. To add some warmth, change this one to Crisp_Warm. Change the lot actually to Crisp_Warm. This is too much. Increase it slowly and gradually and apply
just about 30% for this image. It looks great. So that's how to easily add the golden skin
effect in Photoshop. Just a quick little recap. Also this can be applicable if you want to
turn this into gold. All you got to do is to first create a Hue/Saturation
Adjustment layer, take away all the colors. And then, it's time for us to add some shine. We need to turn this into silver first. So create a white Solid Color Adjustment and
with the help of Blend If, just apply the shine to the bright areas. And do this for different areas separately
by using Masks. Do the same to add some darkness as well. And after that, we're going to use some Color
Lookup tables like EdgyAmber to add yellow to it, and maybe a little bit of LateSunset
and maybe a little bit of Curves to add some brightness to match with that of the image. And that's it. And in the end, to add some warmth, you can
also add some global effects - some Curves or maybe Color Lookup Table like we just did. Have a look at this. We just added the Crisp_Warm at the end. You can do that as well. That's totally up to you. And the most important step is, if you want
to keep the skin gold, you can keep the Opacity of this group to 100% just like this and take
away all the colors by taking the slider of the Hue/Saturation's Opacity back to 100. This will turn it to gold. But if you want to add that golden shine,
let's make it 20% and then just decrease the Opacity of this one to 40-50%. For this one, let's keep it 40% and add that
warmth. So there you go. I hope this video helped you. And if it did, make sure to give us a like
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Serious question from a non portrait photographer. Is this editing considered good? I keep seeing this style on Instagram, and every one of these girls looks like a render from a Final Fantasy cut scene. I've never seen editing like this in any kind of professional glamour/fashion work (though I admit I don't have a terrible amount of exposure to that field) so I assume it's an internet thing?
I think it’s brilliant, his videos are the easiest to get through. I’m a professional portrait photographer and always learn something from Pi
What's up with his eyebrows?
too many commercials.
Had never seen it referred to as "golden shine" before, hm.
Thank you for the video!