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Step 4

You should now have a new layer called Channel Mixer. Click on the Channel Mixer layer then change the blending mode to Luminosity. This will make the Channel Mixer layer control the luminosity of the image and not the color.

Here is what happens when you change the blending mode to Luminosity. The colors stay the same but the luminosity changed. What we have now is a beautifully lit face and skin taken from the red channel. If you like the effect, you can stop here. But if you find the skin tone doesn't match who the actual model is, continue with the rest of the Photoshop tutorial.

Step 5

In the Layers palette, click on the New Adjustment Layer icon and choose Levels. What we will do now is darken back the image.

Move the middle input slider to 0.50. You can just type in 0.50 in the middle input field to do this. Click OK when done.

Here's what the image looks so far. The exposure is better, but the contrast is way too high.