Fix Hot Spots & Highlight Blowouts with Selective Color in Photoshop

Dang! This may be one of the most genius uses I've discovered for fixing Hot Spots in portraits and Color Grading Highlight Blowouts in landscapes. Many people reach for a Luminosity mask for these kinds of corrections, but I've got something that will blow any Luminosity Mask out of the water... the Selective Color Adjustment Layer!

You heard that right. How in the heck can Selective Color fix a highlight blowout or portrait Hot Spot? Pretty easily actually. Watch and learn!

• Chapters •
00:00 Technique Intro
00:54 Selective Color Quickly Explained
01:54 Relative vs Absolute
02:47 Fixing Hot Spots with Selective Color
05:47 Advanced Use of Selective Color
07:13 Landscape Blowout Fix
08:28 Final Thoughts and Remarks

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[ponymoore]

This is absolutely brilliant! Far better than how I have normally dealt with hot spots. Thank you.

[MvRPhGy]

With every new video-tip or tutorial you succeed to impress with your knowledge how to make an image shine and go from 'not bad' to 'woow - this is excellent'.
Thank you so much Blake!

[Kapri_]

Probably the best tutorial I've seen on this topic, this is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you so much 🌹

[carlosread]

Wow! So simple, and yet such great results! I am going to incorporate this "Trick" in my portraits retouching workflow. i use selective color for other purposes, but had never imagined it could be used for toning down the bright spots on a face.

[tomdupuis]

I say this to myself every time I use your training video. You totally amaze me with your photoshop skills and the way to teach the lesson. You do not copy someone else work and slightly change it. It is all yours !

[suspendedhatch]

I’ve attempted this many times with unsatisfactory results. Here you come along with the missing pieces! Avid follower now. I can’t wait to see what else I can learn and improve on.

[bobkillen]

Outstanding tutorial-- solves many issues, and no need to copy and patch and then reduce layer opacity which works-- but this works far better.

[betodeth]

thank you, you save me a lot of time, I was doing it with selective control and your way it's faster

[ericgofreed]

Thank you! Excellent instructional video. Highest compliments!

[garethVanDagger]

You’re a boss dude. You just save a whole photoshoot for me that I shot on film. I wasn’t familiar with the film stock and was surprised when I scanned the photos as it’s usually hard to blow out highlights on film. But I messed up bad and now your trick has saved me. Sincere thanks!

[rickymundy]

This is the best I’ve have tried. Takes a little practice but very good technique……Thank you for sharing

[acestudioscouk-Ace-GACE]

Thanks so much for this! The timing was spot on. I had just this shiny skin problem that a lot of current make up gives you and was searching for video solutions when I found yours. It worked first time and I will be able to deliver my job on time. People really must give this a go! Thanks again Blake. 👍😃

[louie]

The best way I've seen to deal with hot spots. Thank you, sir, I will now like and follow!

[dipont]

Wonderful... I've been looking for ways to bring down this hot spots... and this techniques is simply brilliant... thank you...

[TatyanaValdaBelindaHill]

Oh my gosh! This is so helpful. Selective Colour is one of my favourite Photoshop tools for post-production. It's so simple to use and fixes so much, so much easier than more unwieldy tools like Replace Colour. (Never hear anyone else talking about this.)... But I never thought about using it for blowouts. So good. xx💐🍰

[divadmottram]

wow that is amazing im flabbergasted portrait retouching is difficult at the best of times but this is amazing could you do a high end portrait retouching work flow and make it simple. frequency separation always gets mixed results for me and im not in to AI its just not the same as doing it your self i would ring that bell a million times after seeing this if i could

[chrisloghry]

Blake, this technique has been a lifesaver as I continue to edit corporate head shots that were a little too blown out! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[DaleSteadman]

I use the Selective Color tool all the time, this is a very interesting technique, thanks for sharing.

[tomingrassiaimages]

This may be the most useful technique ever!!!

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Awesome tutorial! Simple & yet effective.👍 Thank you🙏🏻