undergone wrote:
Hi there,

I saw this pic through the D&B topic and wanted to ask if anybody knows how to achieve this skin colour without affecting the contrast of the skin. Also, where different colour patches in the skin fixed with dodge and burn or any other method? Thank you.

Are you asking about your avatar?

Camerosity wrote:

Are you asking about your avatar?

I am sorry ! I put the link now..

undergone wrote:
wanted to ask if anybody knows how to achieve this skin colour without affecting the contrast of the skin.

Use a selective color adjustment layer. In the reds panel, increase cyan and decrease magenta. This is another of Amy's images (left) that I used to illustrate the change ...

undergone wrote:
http://www.amydresser.com/beauty.html

To get rid of the clammy-blue pale look and warm the original, it looks like a blend of yellow and red to me, in about equal amounts.

Ctrl-J to duplicate layer, then Ctrl-B to pull up your color balance box. Add +15 (+red) and -15 (+yellow) to start.

Double click the layer icon to bring up the blending box then move the slider backwards to taste.

Adjust the skin texture blemishes by your favorite method.

undergone wrote:
Hi there,

I saw this pic through the D&B topic and wanted to ask if anybody knows how to achieve this skin colour without affecting the contrast of the skin. Also, where different colour patches in the skin fixed with dodge and burn or any other method? Thank you.

http://www.amydresser.com/beauty.html

Yes and no.

The thing to realize is there you're not seeing one single skin color, there are multiple colors.

Look at the lightest part and then at the darker part on the cheek. One of the aspects you're reacting to is the uniformity of the color and that can't happen in the same way with a high contrast image.

If you read about saturation, you learn that luminosity affects our perception of saturation, and as luminosity is adjusted we will perceive saturation shifts and un some cases hue shifts.

Elements of that skin color can not happen in a darker image.

If you compare the before and after, one part of the change is the WB. If you made a different photo have the same WB under the same temperature lights, you'd probably have areas that matched, but without the same lighting and contrast, there would be spots with lower luminosity and the skin color would look very different.

So, yes you can change skin color without changing the contrast, but you can not get the skin color in that photo without having the same contrast that's in that photo. If the contrast in your photo is not the same, then it will have to change to match.

Peano wrote:
Use a selective color adjustment layer. In the reds panel, increase cyan and decrease magenta. This is another of Amy's images (left) that I used to illustrate the change ...

Most of the times- I have models with very pale skin and i need to make it warmer. the methods i saw through blending modes are not very nice (?) Should I change tones with curves? solid colour layers or? so as to have a quality result with not orangy skin?

Please see the picture below as well:

http://www.modelinia.com/__wordpress__/ … ly2009.jpg

Camerosity wrote:
While the lighting and mood are different (and I went for a somewhat darker look), the skin tones look very much like those in one of my photos.



After making minor adjustments in the skin tones, I desaturated the photo by -20, then added a totally desaturated layer (gray scale) and brushed that in. Judging by the layer mask, I'd say I used about 20% opacity for the gray scale layer. I also did a LOT of d&b on the feathers - but that has nothing to with the skin tones. Both the hue/saturation and totally desaturated layers were applied to the skin tones only (not the feathers, dress, background, etc.).



In the photo that you've linked to, the skin tones are not highly saturated, but they are very cool (blue) in the "before" photo. While there may have been some desaturation during post, my guess is that the main steps were correcting (warming) the skin tones and using d&b to make the skin tones more uniform.

Since your OP referred to color (not saturation), I'm not sure whether your concern is correcting the skin color or getting the desaturated look. If it's color correction that you're interested in, this web page will give you some guidelines for correcting skin color.

http://www.graphicconnectionkc.com/skin … ction.html

thank you very interesting link

undergone wrote:
Most of the times- I have models with very pale skin and i need to make it warmer. the methods i saw through blending modes are not very nice (?) Should I change tones with curves? solid colour layers or? so as to have a quality result with not orangy skin?

Post an image you're having trouble with, and a target image that has the skin tones you're after.

Peano wrote:
Post an image you're having trouble with, and a target image that has the skin tones you're after.

I do not know how to post- please see from links:

from this:
http://www.google.gr/imgres?start=107&n … x=48&ty=95

to this:

http://www.vogue.ru/collection/springsu … al/#677972

Michael Bots wrote:
Lots of skin tone adjustment for this music video - compare the before (behind the scenes) with the finished product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMLNs4N3gjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHjcArA_sGw

These videos don't have anything to do with Photoshop.

Michael Bots wrote:
Lots of skin tone adjustment for this music video - compare the before (behind the scenes) with the finished product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMLNs4N3gjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHjcArA_sGw

Peano wrote:
These videos don't have anything to do with Photoshop.

Odd. Criticized for pointing to a real world end product  before/after  example of what can be done with skin tone adjustments. 

Photoshop does work on video the same as stills, so if you want all the models to end up with the "same" skin color regardless of completely different starting points ------ you did notice that one of the models was black in the "before" bts and everybody had the same skin color "after", including her face in close up.


Here --> right from one of Adobe's web sites

Tutorial: Color correcting video in Photoshop CS6
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/07/tu … p-cs6.html

Michael Bots wrote:
Odd. Criticized for pointing to a real world end product  before/after  example of what can be done with skin tone adjustments.

What can be done isn't in question here. The OP already posted examples of what can be done. He wants to know how it's done. Showing more before/after examples doesn't even touch on that question.

Michael Bots wrote:
Tutorial: Color correcting video in Photoshop CS6
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/07/tu … p-cs6.html

This is also irrelevant. The OP isn't working with video.

Jakov Markovic wrote:
Why does everyone call it color correcting? This maybe a stupid question but... um isn't it just coloring?

I would think that if you're changing the color from one point to another, more than likely you're viewing that change as an improvement over the original color scheme. Hence the term "correcting".

Robert Randall wrote:

I would think that if you're changing the color from one point to another, more than likely you're viewing that change as an improvement over the original color scheme. Hence the term "correcting".

Ahaaaa... correct it to fit your idea, not the reality. I was like, damn, I sure am not "correcting" something that was correct to begin with.

Jakov Markovic wrote:
Why does everyone call it color correcting? This maybe a stupid question but... um isn't it just coloring?

Colouring is the term used in editing post production film/video.

http://mypad.northampton.ac.uk/09316478 … colouring/

Jakov Markovic wrote:
Why does everyone call it color correcting? This maybe a stupid question but... um isn't it just coloring?

How many angels can dance on . . .