How to Easily Color Tone Any Photo in Photoshop

Want a fast, fully non-destructive way to color tone your photos? In this tutorial, we show you how solid color fill layers can add style to shadows and highlights separately, without ever touching your original pixels. This is one of our favorite quick techniques because it works on almost any photo and is endlessly editable. We will build one fill layer for the shadows and another for the highlights, use Blend If to control exactly where each color shows up, and mask the effect off of skin tones so people still look natural. CHAPTERS 0:00 Color Toning Overview With Fill Layers 0:53 Create a Solid Color Fill Layer 2:13 Apply Two Fill Layers Total 2:41 Blend If Isolates the Highlights 4:01 Mask Highlight Color Off Skin 4:47 Switch Blend Mode to Soft Light 6:06 Fine-Tune Final Color Adjustments THE STEPS 1. Add a new Solid Color fill layer 2. Change the fill layer's blend mode to Soft Light 3. Add a second fill layer for the opposite tonal range 4. Use Blend If (Alt/Option + drag) to isolate highlights or shadows 5. Mask out the fill layer color over skin tones 6. Double-click the fill layer thumbnail to fine-tune colors 7. Lower opacity to soften the overall effect Download the sample image and follow along here: https://phlearn.com/tutorial/color-ph... Photo from unsplash.com. PHLEARN PRO: Want to take your color grading skills even further? Check out PHLEARN PRO at phlearn.com/pro ――――――――――――――― What is PHLEARN PRO? ● Instant access to over 1,000 Photoshop and photography tutorials ● New tutorials added every week ● Download sample images and project files to follow along ● Ask questions and get feedback from a community of creatives Use code PRO26 for a discount on your first month of PHLEARN PRO Follow PHLEARN: Instagram:   / phlearn   Facebook:   / phlearn   Twitter:   / phlearn   #Photoshop #ColorGrading #FillLayers