I like challenges so I had to try thai picture. As I had some difficulties in seeing the picture I started in PSE and adjusted shadows slightly with shadow/highlight tool in PSE. Then I went to CM Lab mode and set highlight, shadows and neutral. Did not find an optimal grey point but one which I thought acceptable.
After that I worked quite a bit with the brightness curve in shadow parts (yes I like shadows:) ) and increased saturation. Got a red cast which I tried to adjust for. Back to PSE and made a selection of the shadow parts to the left which looked disturbed. Adjusted this part quickly with levels. Selected heaven and increased colours and contrast of heaven in CM.
Cloned some bad pixels in PSE. Tried to apply slight noise reduction with Neatimage. Noticed a purple fringing. Adjusted it with Hue/saturation by choosing the specific colour and desaturated it. Made a copy of layer which I used unsharp mask on. Used a mask filled with black. Took a white brush to get the parts of the picture sharpened where I wanted.
Had to be quite careful with all adjustments as not so many pixels available and picture to me seems a bit damaged.
No idea if my result is good or bad but at least it is a first try.
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For additional Pins related to Skin Tones see the following post:
http://www.curvemeister.com/forum/index.php?topic=1667.0
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Thanks for hints. The tricky thing was the skin colour. Made my own skin pin from the sample you provided. Best result if adjusting the neutral and skin late in the process. Heaven was masked and adjusted separately in CM.
No idea about that shortcut. How do you know from start that that would be a good way to go?
Thomas
No idea about that shortcut. How do you know from start that that would be a good way to go?
Thomas
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