About Skin Tone

[Hello_taipan]

ok been working mao on this one.
here's the work flow:

-noiseware
-exposition with curves
-D&B
-select>color range then desat on yellow
-inverted blue channel to reduce yellow (thnx chris)
-a few other hue on selections
-then painting on color layer "with ver vey low opacity!" thnx cassidy

-D&B on neutral layer to add back some shadows
-HP sharpen
that's it i think. (..a bit tired, 6am here :p)

Tell me what i missed here and there, what u think.
the images original/retouched:

[Hello_taipan]

ok here's another one, lighten hair and another exposure for the eyes...
watchathink?

here's a bigger size this time:

[AdamZx3]

Looking better, I drew up a markup of some things that need corrected. You might try to convert a copy to cmyk and try out some of the values that where in the tutorial, they wont be exact but should be ballpark...especially at 6am I had to re adjust the darks/lights in the levels after converting to get the image so that the CMY values of 7:20:24 would look close. (didnt really mess too much with it but it made the color better)

Her left cheek was too yellow, but after changing the skintone cast it changed has a high bias to magenta. There was also a dark oval on the cheek that needs fixed as well looks like a color correction, next time feather it out

The shirt has a heavy cyan cast as well ( 16%,0%,3%,0% CMYK) You might need to isolate the shirt from the rest to get a good color.

btw the markup was on the first pic.

Hope this helps

[AdamZx3]

Also check out the differance in proofing between the browser and photoshop (tested in safari 2 and firefox, in adobe1998 and srgb, both do the same!)

Is everyone else noticing the big difference between the two?

I figured in SRGB it would be a lot closer!

[Mike_E]

Hello everybody! Brand New guy here, Can I play?

I didn't worry too much with the artifacts as that is a different horse all together but as I remember it I started by converting to 16 bit, went to levels to tighten the range, then went to match color and played with the sliders to White balance. I converted to lab and went to the lightness and then smart sharpened (yes I know), then gaus. blurred the noise there as well. A history brush to bring back the detail in the eyes and nose and mouth and I stopped there because the lady seemed to need a nice dreamy look.

Any way, life is much easier when you shoot in raw but this was fun, thanks.

mike

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...C4769rcopy.jpg