I get greyish skin when doing d/b!

[Syd]

Dave is quite right. It is too orangish. I took your retouched version and did some color correction on it to give you an example of what it should look more like.

To do this I went back to the original RAW file and made some changes in the Camera RAW dialogue box. I moved the Tint slider to the left and Exposure Slider to -0.50. Then I opened it in Photoshop, resized and dragged a copy over your version and set the Blend Mode to Color. I selected that shadow on the right cheek, opened a Selective Color Adjustment Layer, removed yellow and black from the yellows and added some magenta and cyan. I then opened a Hue/Sat Adj Layer and took down the yellows in that shadow some more. Finally I opened another Hue/Sat Adj Layer to take down the general yellows a little more, dodged that shadow on the right cheek so that the transition wasn't so harsh, sharpened the eyes and that was that.

Syd

[Graphics23]

I used channel blending.

An RGB luminosity blend using the Blue channel followed by an LAB overlay blend masked by the L channel.

Then some judicious sharpening, Shadow/Highlight, and minor retouching.

Regards,

Michael

[unimatrix001]

i adjusted the colors in lab mode using apply image setting to overlay
then used a hue saturation layer to tweak the final settings

[superkoax]

Thanks, guys for taking your sweet and important time to answer my humble question! I think the answer lays in syd's post! multiple color corrections...


gerry

[jimhob]

i couldn't get the skin color right either. =) Just playing around. That is a cool trick to paint color back on the D&B layer. Thanks for the tips.

Jim