orange orange orange :(

[foz]

hi all,

first post here, im enjoying sitting back and reading the wealth of info just searching around, but i cant find what im looking for,

with dealing with models round where i live they feel the need to fake tan, the problem is under lights they turn orange

what can i do to combat this in post?

thanks

[Swampy]

Hi foz! Welcome to RetouchPro! Explore and Enjoy!

Why not post a sample and let the gurus have at it?

[foz]

i really dont want to put the pictures on line for the fear the poor girl comes across it but ill put my attempt at editing online and your see the trail end of it..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fozthed...24751/sizes/l/

theres still a slight tint to the skin

[Swampy]

Just put a large size crop of a bad area.

[ArtIsUgly]

I got it to look a little better, but you have a few problems that are causing issues. It is underexposed about a stop and you are shooting in mixed lighting. When you shoot in mixed lighting there is almost always going to be a cast to the image.

what I did was create a curve adjustment layer in the color blending mode. Added some Cyan and added some Blue to take out the red/yellow cast in her face.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8235/fozjw2.jpg

[Insensitive.]

I suggest playing with selective color.

[igot2pman]

Many, many ways to fix this...

I choose Hue sat in a new layer. Selected reds, then used the dropper to select the skin. Hue: +4 :: Lightness: -15. I agree with ArtIsUgly, definetly underexposed. So I made a brightness and contrast layer @ brightness: +65.

You may want to calibrate your brightness and blacks on your monitor. The outfit is blacked out... plus the underexposure

lovely girl though...

Hope this helps,
-Keven

[garibaldi]

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[foz]

thanks all for your replies, it was shot ina underground carpark, the whole batch is far to underexposed but it was a first attempt, so were going to retry it.

thanks for the advice orange skin is always great fun at the shows

and sorry what do you mean by lab

[philbach]

I used a curves adjustment layer in photoshop to lighten up the image and then a color balance adjustment layer I adjusted the color

[igot2pman]

Garibaldi means correct in Lab color space. Image>> mode>> lab color

It is the simplest of all the color spaces and basically works like a white balance corrector. It can fix color balance problems quickly and probably the best place to fix brightness and contrast. Just be sure to change back to RGB color, as LAB only has simple editing available.

But this wont correct specificly the skin unless you mask only the skin, otherwise the color balance is global.

-Keven

[MrRyan]

Foz,

You're getting some good info here in this post, but (as normal), i'm going to second igot2peeman's insight: If you don't mask out just the skin, the photo is going to continue to look "off." First and foremost, create yourself a nice mask (using quickmask), and THEN start making changes. This will help 10 fold.