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Greg,
Let the mask be a bit more open... If you look at the original mask I Posted near the top the face has some Gray shaded areas. This is actually good because it allows the mask to bleed a bit of the correction into the rest of the face at a lower rate than the a full white does. Masks need not be fully high contrast. In fact the K mask in the MFM Color saturation that was in the news letter was only 80% of the total value it could have been.
Greg
Let the mask be a bit more open... If you look at the original mask I Posted near the top the face has some Gray shaded areas. This is actually good because it allows the mask to bleed a bit of the correction into the rest of the face at a lower rate than the a full white does. Masks need not be fully high contrast. In fact the K mask in the MFM Color saturation that was in the news letter was only 80% of the total value it could have been.
Greg
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Hi
I've finally finished my most hectic weeks tasks and can now get back to here.
I tried following the directions for using the skin mask.
I could create the mask but could not find a way to save it as a layer to Photoshop.
My Curvemeister doesn't seem to be arranged like the screen grab shown above.
So the attached image was processed as follows.
The image was White Balanced on the white tee-shirt,in Lightroom.
I then brought it into Photoshop and though the sides of her face seemed to be green they were just slightly magents. Just one to four positive in the a channel. However it looked slightly greenish so I applied a green curve (133/123). This made the face somewhat magenterish so I then applied a blue correction curve(135/120). I could probably achieved the same result using the red channel.
I was still concerned by the bright green background so I made a rough colour range selection on the background, copied the selection to a new layer and darkened the selection layer with a curves adjustment.
The image still seemed to have a green tinge around the face even though the info tool measured it as being slightly magenta, so I invoked Curvemeister and pinned a Skin8 to the side of her face just above her left ear.
The final result seems natural for my part of the world, though it might seem too yellow or red for other countries.
Just goes to show that reading pixel values is a handy guide, but it's what it looks like and not what the info tool reads which is important.
Just for intrest, what colour is her smock?
Dennis.
I've finally finished my most hectic weeks tasks and can now get back to here.
I tried following the directions for using the skin mask.
I could create the mask but could not find a way to save it as a layer to Photoshop.
My Curvemeister doesn't seem to be arranged like the screen grab shown above.
So the attached image was processed as follows.
The image was White Balanced on the white tee-shirt,in Lightroom.
I then brought it into Photoshop and though the sides of her face seemed to be green they were just slightly magents. Just one to four positive in the a channel. However it looked slightly greenish so I applied a green curve (133/123). This made the face somewhat magenterish so I then applied a blue correction curve(135/120). I could probably achieved the same result using the red channel.
I was still concerned by the bright green background so I made a rough colour range selection on the background, copied the selection to a new layer and darkened the selection layer with a curves adjustment.
The image still seemed to have a green tinge around the face even though the info tool measured it as being slightly magenta, so I invoked Curvemeister and pinned a Skin8 to the side of her face just above her left ear.
The final result seems natural for my part of the world, though it might seem too yellow or red for other countries.
Just goes to show that reading pixel values is a handy guide, but it's what it looks like and not what the info tool reads which is important.
Just for intrest, what colour is her smock?
Dennis.
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Thought I'd chime in with an example. This was done with a neutral on the white shirt, followed by tweaking the Lightness curve with attention to the bright areas on the face, the highlights, and the midtone skin areas.
BTW - mind if I move these to the Interesting images area? Maybe some other folks would like to try their hand at this image.
BTW - mind if I move these to the Interesting images area? Maybe some other folks would like to try their hand at this image.
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