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When I do pictures of 2-4 people together and some have very light skin and
others have very dark skin, the people with the dark skin seem to lose detail -
I guess, because the camera averages out the light and they lose...

The obvious workaround would seem to be a spot-focus on the person whose skin
tone is somewhere in the middle or to the dark end - but I'm guessing that will
make others look washed-out.

Barring some other camera technique, is there something I can do in Photoshop to
even out the pix?
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PeteCresswell

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 02:01:35 GMT, in rec.photo.digital "(Pete
Cresswell)" <> wrote:

>When I do pictures of 2-4 people together and some have very light skin and
>others have very dark skin, the people with the dark skin seem to lose detail -
>I guess, because the camera averages out the light and they lose...
>
>The obvious workaround would seem to be a spot-focus on the person whose skin
>tone is somewhere in the middle or to the dark end - but I'm guessing that will
>make others look washed-out.
>
>Barring some other camera technique, is there something I can do in Photoshop to
>even out the pix?

If your camera has an exposure bracketing function, this seems a good
place to start. You could than blend the images in PS as needed.
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