fix skin color

wwjd wrote on 3/5/2020, 6:28 PM

did a search, did some reading, still not sure what to do. I have guy who is toward red naturally, and I am sure my camera wasnt white balanced perfectly either, but, isn't there a plugin that lets me pick a color and push it around? Like SECONDARY CORRECTOR or something? I need to make the skin tone more toward orange than red. I've pulled a bunch of red and magenta out of it, but cant seem to bring back normal skin tone.

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fifonik wrote on 3/5/2020, 6:50 PM

I would not use secondary CC as usually not the only skin colour is wrong and the whole picture should be CCed.
You can post screenshot here so people would recommend what to do.

wwjd wrote on 3/5/2020, 10:16 PM

ok here's how it looks as I have it now

here's with a pinch of white balance, trying to alter skin tone... little better, still not where I want it:

here's how it looks with no correction (It's a long story, NOBODY will like, and it doesn't matter since I am getting what I need from it)

Grazie wrote on 3/5/2020, 10:31 PM

@wwjd - Is your last sample towards what you want? What do you want to adjust? It all depends on your narrative at the time. Y’know I could argue for your first sample, if it fitted in with your narrative.

kplo wrote on 3/5/2020, 10:43 PM

Again, AAV Color Lab (free) does this very well. I use it for this particular purpose on almost every show (placed in the FX chain right after Color Corrector). A little Hue adjustment goes a long way! Generally, 1-2points on the minus side and 5-6 on the plus side seems to be my sweet spot for skin tone adjustment.

Hope this helps.

adis-a3097 wrote on 3/6/2020, 2:49 AM

How's this, wwjd?

What I did was select effect range in Color Corrector (Secondary) (his cheek), smoothen Luminance, Saturation and Hue masks, rotated the hue, then desaturated his face a bit. Like this:

Added another instance of CC (not secondary) and desaturated a tad in general:

You can play furthrer if you want. :)

wwjd wrote on 3/6/2020, 6:30 AM

@wwjd - Is your last sample towards what you want? What do you want to adjust? It all depends on your narrative at the time. Y’know I could argue for your first sample, if it fitted in with your narrative.

No, the FIRST one is how I got it looking. Just need a little more REAL in the skin tone. That last one is on the timeline with zero corrections done on it. The crazy color is an artifact from conversion. I want nothing close to that one. The first shoot is my look.

wwjd wrote on 3/6/2020, 6:32 AM

Again, AAV Color Lab (free) does this very well. I use it for this particular purpose on almost every show (placed in the FX chain right after Color Corrector). A little Hue adjustment goes a long way! Generally, 1-2points on the minus side and 5-6 on the plus side seems to be my sweet spot for skin tone adjustment.

Hope this helps.

I'm a huge fan of Color Lab and use it all the time. Had to pull it from the options as it stays in 8-bit and this work flow has to be 32bit floating front to back.

wwjd wrote on 3/6/2020, 6:35 AM

How's this, wwjd?

What I did was select effect range in Color Corrector (Secondary) (his cheek), smoothen Luminance, Saturation and Hue masks, rotated the hue, then desaturated his face a bit. Like this:

Added another instance of CC (not secondary) and desaturated a tad in general:

You can play furthrer if you want. :)

This might work. I'll check it at home on my good monitors, but cheek looks great, but too much red popping out of face. He is a RED guy, his wife is more orange skin tone - it was messing me up trying get them both to look good in the same scene! :D Of course, this is all sans makeup - which is the real answer

Also, my LOOK is darker for the narrative. Just waking up, darker morning thing. I might be darkening even more

adis-a3097 wrote on 3/6/2020, 7:18 AM

Well, it's just a starting point, you know what you need best. :)