Skin Tone Pinning - Overexposed Skin Areas?
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Ah ha - glad to see you have fallen, as I nearly always do, in concentrating on one aspect and blowing another! The cabin wall colouring has really changed from the original and gone all blue-ish.
I think this says that for over-exposed smallish areas, we would really mask out the correctly exposed areas rather than try and do it with curves, especially things like eyes - what do you think?
PS I know we should be majoring (if that's the correct word) on curves, but surely not if it is not the best way of doing things.
I think this says that for over-exposed smallish areas, we would really mask out the correctly exposed areas rather than try and do it with curves, especially things like eyes - what do you think?
PS I know we should be majoring (if that's the correct word) on curves, but surely not if it is not the best way of doing things.
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> PS I know we should be majoring (if that's the correct word) on curves, but surely not if it is not the best way of doing things. <
I'm not sure that's possible. No matter how good the results from a particular curve may be, there is always a better way to do it. That includes better curves, including curves combined with masking, as well as techniques that do not involve curves. That does not detract, IMHO, from using a particular image to show a set of techniques.
I'm not sure that's possible. No matter how good the results from a particular curve may be, there is always a better way to do it. That includes better curves, including curves combined with masking, as well as techniques that do not involve curves. That does not detract, IMHO, from using a particular image to show a set of techniques.
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Now I'm really confused - I thought GregM's skin was fine (as far as my eye was concerned) - so I copied it down to compare on my PC
I could not get any pink area to go less than 0 degrees - only the blow area.
Looking at the lower sample point (1st picture) 73,23,15 on mine and 72,23,16 for Greg's clock - I also tried different sample sizes but that didnt help.
Then I thought I could check out profiles, so I copied down Greg's image with the clocks on it and tried 3 profiles when the image loaded - sRGB, AdobeRGB & Leave it be - and monitored the clock colours, rather than the actual skin.
I'm a little amazed at the results!
Note that the sRGB & As Is profiles give the same results - which means (?) that Greg had used sRGB when looking at GregM's image.
Why does nothing agree with Greg's clocks?
GregM, what happens when you try this experiment from your original image and the web posted version?
I could not get any pink area to go less than 0 degrees - only the blow area.
Looking at the lower sample point (1st picture) 73,23,15 on mine and 72,23,16 for Greg's clock - I also tried different sample sizes but that didnt help.
Then I thought I could check out profiles, so I copied down Greg's image with the clocks on it and tried 3 profiles when the image loaded - sRGB, AdobeRGB & Leave it be - and monitored the clock colours, rather than the actual skin.
I'm a little amazed at the results!
Note that the sRGB & As Is profiles give the same results - which means (?) that Greg had used sRGB when looking at GregM's image.
Why does nothing agree with Greg's clocks?
GregM, what happens when you try this experiment from your original image and the web posted version?
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