SOLVE OVER-EXPOSURE

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There may be times when you do a portrait and the image is just a bit too over exposed. The skin tone looks pink/white-ish, and there seems to be no way to color correct the model's face. Instead of deleting the photo, you may be able to salvage the image by making it a black and white photograph. There are many ways to create monochrome images in Photoshop, however for this specific skin tone issue, the normal Hue/Saturation slider works the best. Drag the Saturation slider down to 50%, 25%, 10%, etc., until you get a look that you like. The greater the desaturation, the more your over exposed skin problem will be corrected.

Coupled with the desaturation, I tried a slight warm tone to the above sample image, and found that it worked nicely.

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