Anybody know how to correct the skintone on this photo? The light just killed it .... I just can't seem to get the red to come around :(
Too Yellow !
If You have photoshop , You can adjust the skin tones in the program.......Go to Enhance....Adjust color....Adjust color for skin tones.
Tough one, due to the high contrast present in the scene (I mean, black suit and white snow; it doesn't get any stronger)
What was your light source? If the light on your subjects' faces was mostly incandescent interior light, you might have gotten the best results possible in-camera. Photoshop et al can do a lot to correct problems like this, but I'm old school!
You wouldn't happen to have the RAW file would you? If you did we could fix this VERY easily. I ALWAYS shoot in RAW and jpeg. Raw allows to make WB adjustments where jpeg does not.
VisLP
I wasn't sure if you wanted to keep the softness or not so here are 2 versions
When you want help like this ... it's helpful to those of us that help if you check the (store original) box .. that gives us a larger photo to work with :)
photogrl57 wrote:
I wasn't sure if you wanted to keep the softness or not so here are 2 versions
When you want help like this ... it's helpful to those of us that help if you check the (store original) box .. that gives us a larger photo to work with :)
I don't know -- the color balance is still not "right," and I prefer the warmer yellowish original to the magenta-tinged "correction."
But, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Bobber
Loc: Fredericksburg, Texas
How abouit trying a selection of the skin bearing areas and treating them alone.
Another area that might be helped is the brightest area; toning it down a little would cut some of the harshness.
Then, if my cataract burdened eyes are not off targed, I might be seeing a little green or something in the white parts of the blouse.
Bobber
Loc: Fredericksburg, Texas
Am I crazy or did just adding blue in Color Balance do the trick for the most part? Additional tweaks:
selecting the people and adding a touch of sharpen in
the faces,
adding a little vibrance to the people's colors,
attempting to tone down the bright background,
working on additional background color balance
a little more blue and cyan,
a touch of blur to the background.
Both are much better 57.
Yep Bobber - just a little too blue.
I don't remember what kind of lights were in that hotel.
Was at a Christmas Party in Spartenburg SC.
Thanks for making it better.
Bobber
Loc: Fredericksburg, Texas
Cw- The whites look for the most part clean to me, Maybe I see a hint of blue in the mid tone shadows, particularly on the guy's face.
The original had a greenish cast in my eyes and without much planning I just hit on blue and low and behold the green went away and the skin tones came up.
Now, the fact that I have some eye surgery scheduled for this next Wednesday might figure in.
On my monitor, 57's corrects the greenish problem, but seem rather on the amber side overall. Cateract trouble here could contribute to that perception.. Maybe I'll see a different result after the surgery.
cwilliams31 wrote:
Anybody know how to correct the skintone on this photo? The light just killed it .... I just can't seem to get the red to come around :(
here is what I came up with
original
corlor adjust
Using a Dave Cross method ...
Using a Dave Cross method
maybe also tweak bkg color satuation? Nice portrait!
Thanks guy's - Much better.
What are you using for post processing?
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