When you’re processing a portrait, you might want to make your subject’s surroundings – such as the sky and trees in our start image – look punchy and vivid. But simply ramping up the saturation may overcook the skin tones, making them look too magenta or orange.
You could set your Nikon to the Portrait Picture Control option, which is designed to keep skin tones looking more natural, and if you shoot in Raw you can always set [PT] Portrait Picture Control when you process the image in Nikon’s free NX Studio software. However, although the Portrait Picture Control can help you get more natural-looking skin tones, you may still want to increase the saturation of other colours to create a more punchy and attractive image.
Lightroom’s Vibrance slider selectively boosts less-saturated…
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N-photo: The Nikon (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024