Add display of CMYK values for skin tone balancing

Add a toggle to display CMYK values in lieu of RGB under the histogram, or some other method of displaying values. Checking that Y > M is one of the simplest and most reliable ways to verify that skintones appear typical and do not appear sunburned. Even with a calibrated monitor the numbers are worth a check. This is one of the more frequent reasons I fire up Photoshop on images that don't need actual editing.

1. Place PDF in InDesign
2. Make a new CMYK spot color, defined 100C 100M 100Y 100K
3. In Ink Manager, find spot color of the PDF in the list.
4. In the ink alias for this, pull down and select the spot color you created in step 2
5. Still in the Ink Manager - beside the spot color you created in step 2, click once on the spot icon on the left to change it to process
6. Output a new PDF from InDesign
Once you have the InDesign file set up, all the work is done for any future PDF files you place. InDesign simply takes the spot color in the original PDF (ie Pantone 293 C) and maps it to your 100 CMYK spot. The 100 CMYK spot is in turn forced to process by the ink manager (the ink manager can be accessed in the flyout in the swatches panel)

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It doesn't say if the skin tone indicator is exactly between yellow and red, i.e. pure orange, which would be 30 degrees, or just somewhere between red and yellow.
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"Regardless which race or ethnic group our actors are a part of, all of us have the same red blood under our skins. This line (skin tone indicator) represents the color of red blood under skin. In general, when you want to make skin tones look normal and believable, you want them within a couple of degrees of this line. Above the line leans ruddy, below the line leans sallow."
So, is the red blood under our skin pure orange, i.e. 30 degrees in the Colour Board, i.e. exactly mid way between red (zero degrees) and yellow (60 degrees), or is it some other value?

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Display only positive values for a particular Keyfigure

Hi..
(Sorry, I accidentally posted this also in Datawarehousing forum, actually it related to BeX forum).
For a particular column(keyfigure) in my report, the user wants to display only positive values.
I used the formula from the one of the forums
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Diagnosis
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Otherwise the newly calculated result is changed every time one of its
lower-level nodes is expanded. This is not supported for technical
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Note, however, that calculating with "Suppress Results" is always
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NOTE:
The query shows the keyfigure values for a selected title, for profit center and territory hierarchies.
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Thanks,
Sai.

Hi Deepu,
Thanks for the reply. I tried with ur formula.
LEAF(keyfig) gives all values "zero" for that particular column including the result.
NOT LEAF(keyfig) gives all values "one" for that particular column including the result.
So, ur formula gives the same values as of the present column values.
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(conditional
Message no. BRAIN144
Diagnosis
Characteristic Title has an output condition and the 'Suppress Results
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System response
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Procedure
Check the query settings, especially results row suppression and the
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Procedure for System Administration
You can deactivate this message Brain 144 with transaction RSRT1.
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Diagnosis
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System response
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Check the query settings, especially results row suppression and the
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Procedure for System Administration
You can deactivate this message Brain 144 with transaction RSRT1.
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Sai.

- How to Display Sales Qty & Value for This Year & Last Year in 2 Columns -

Dear All,
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Cheers,
Serene

Hi,
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(select sum (r.TotalSumSy) from ODLN h
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Display planned depreciation values for depre areas

Hi,
I have 2 depreciation areas, 01 for book and 04 for local depreciation.
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Skin tone balance? (as opposed to white balance)

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This is only half the answer. Have you seriously tried to edit large numbers of files with this method? It's an exercise in frustration.
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I've said this quite a few times in these forums, and yes, I have posted a number of times in the feedback, that the best implementation of this is Capture 1 where (on PC) Control +/- controls exposure, Shift +/- White Balance etc. And it works perfectly on a network, unlike Bridge which just keeps crashing.
As someone who edits anywhere between 1100 and 2000 CR2 files a week there is no way I could use Aperture in our Companies workflow. I use it for my personal work where time and volume are not crucial considerations but file management is.
Even though Capture 1 is long in the tooth, ie no H&S, no Recovery yadda, yadda, yadda, to my knowledge no other Professional level RAW processor has this direct entry of important adjustment values and once used any other method is just tedious.
While I love most of the other features, in my opinion, the Tab method of moving between adjustments as implemented in Aperture is half baked and very buggy.
End of rant.
Cheers,
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Hi guys,
I am building a query in BEx Analyzer (v 3.5) where I am facing a difficult requirement.
In the cube I have the following structure:
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A                   | 29.10.2008 | 300             | 5000
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Hi TM,
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Message was edited by:
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Grouping to display null values for all the missing dates

Hi SAP,
I am trying to display '0.00' value for all the missing dates in my crystal reports as follows:
17-Jan-14     40.00
18-Jan-14       0.00
19-Jan-14       0.00
20-Jan-14     80.00
However, my crystal report is showing as follows:
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Presets sought for fine-tuning skin tones

Are presets available to fine tune skin tones in Camera Raw, perhaps by tweaking colors and hue/saturation/luminance settings in the HSL/Grayscale menu?
I like almost everything about ACR except how the default settings render skin tones on my 5D's CR2 files. I bought a copy of Margulis' 'Professional Photoshop' and now can consistently "fix" what I didn't like, but I suspect as much or more could be accomplished with knowledgeable tweaking in the HSL menu.
I found one preset, after visiting this adobe forums thread:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bbed80a/1
... but that's all. I think they'd be a snap for an expert retoucher to create -- e.g., warm_with_pink.xmp, warm_with_yellow.xmp, presets for skin tones of different ethnicities, etc.
Of course, I've tried to do it myself, by nudging orange, red, yellow and magenta sliders, but ... with limited success, to put it mildly. I'd much rather start out with tweak-the-skin-tones presets from an expert, and then adjust to taste. If I can find 'em.

Thanks for the links to chromoholics and creativepro. My last experience with creating a custom camera profile wasn't that successful, but that was a long time ago, and I probably shouldn't let that discourage me from trying again. If that's the ultimate solution, you've told me what I need to know.
For whatever it's worth, though, I've shot with two 5Ds, and can't tell the CR2s they produce apart. ACR at default settings yields the same (to me) objectionable, pale apricot skin tone from the CR2s of both cameras.
I would fix this in ACR, if I knew how. I don't; I'm not that good with the HSL sliders; I have to do it in Photoshop. But because the 5D is a popular and fairly high end camera, I guessed, or hoped, that professional wedding or fashion photographers who live and die by nuances of skin tone might have sub-directories full of presets to nudge 5D skin tones ... and, further, that they'd generously share said preset collection with the world.

Skin tones in LR

Skin tones in LR often seem to look pasty and flat. I've been reading Lee Varis's book "Skin", and in it he says Caucasian skin tones should have a roughly equal amount of yellow and magenta (with yellow between 1 and 10 points higher) and about 1/4 to 1/3 the amount of cyan.
Most of the pictures I take of Caucasians and import into LR actually have yellow as the lowest value, with magenta and cyan being roughly equal. These skin tones look pale and somewhat pasty:
When I adjust this same image in Photoshop using Lee Varis's method, I get the following results:
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I am a pro, I shoot primarily for magazines in my area, have been doing so for over 10 years now. I shoot A LOT of people. Here are my thoughts for you:
1) The top photo was shot in an open shade area, this creates a color balance/temperature problem. It is too blue for a daylight setting, yet not blue enough for a cloudy setting.
2)Using a whibal or other reference card for skin tones is very hit or miss. They will give you a very accurate balance of rgb values, but rarely if ever give the most pleasing skin tones. It is a good stating point however, especially for large groups with mixed ethnicity.
3) BY the numbers is a good way to go, I have used it often, since learning it way back in the 90's. However I hardly ever work with in the cmyk color space. There for I have adopted the numbers for use in an RGB space.
Here are my numbers for Caucasian skin tones. This was averaged off of 7 different samples in varying lighting conditions. This is also based on LR's rgb 0-100 scale:
Green Should be 11% lower than Red
and Blue should be 13% lower than green
Example R-------------G ----------- B
84.6---------78.1----------71.2
60.3---------52.5----------40.8 measured in shadow
78.8--------- 70.2---------60.3
87.2--------- 80.5--------- 74.9
78----------- 70.2 ---------64.7
With the exception of the shadow reading above, each came from a slightly different Caucasian skin tone....
Also skin tones are going to change wildly based on shooting conditions. You almost can not make a preset for skin tones unless you shoot in a controlled studio environment and shoot the exact same way each time.
Other wise best advice I can give it to use the above number samples as a guide and learn to "see" skin tones. After you "See" them than you will not need the numbers any longer, because you will know what feels right.
I also tend to back the vibrance slider down 1 or 2 notches if skin tone is very important to the image, but I am sure that is due to me shooting a D60
Also...Every skin color under the sun can be balanced by the numbers once you know the percentages.....experiment with white balance and hsl until you find what looks right for THAT person.

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The Color Mixer seems to display the correct values, while the Info panel's values appear to be incorrect. Note that this issue affects the HSB mode only; the RGB and Hex values are consistent between both panels.
This bug has been observed in Fireworks CS6, Fireworks CS5.1 and Fireworks 8 on Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).
Here's the bug report submitted for this issue:
Product name: Fireworks
Product Version: 12.0.0.236
Product Language: English
Your operating system: Mac OS 10.6.8 (Intel-based)
******BUG******
Concise problem statement: The Info panel displays incorrect Hue values for many colors—including pure Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta. The Hue values are usually 1 degree below the value displayed in the Color Mixer panel (e.g., 59 instead of 60 for Yellow) but sometimes 1 degree above (e.g., 301 instead of 300 for Magenta). This is true whether using the Eyedropper tool or the Color Picker swatches eyedropper, and whether sampling from the canvas or from swatches.
Steps to reproduce bug:
In an open Fireworks document, open the Info, Color Mixer, and Swatches panels. Within the Color Mixer and Info panels, set the color mode to HSB.
Draw a Rectangle and set its fill to Yellow (#FFFF00) using the Color Picker.
Observe the Hue values displayed in the Color Mixer and Info panels.
Select the Eyedropper (I) tool, and sample the rectangle's fill color. Again, observe the Hue values displayed in both the Color Mixer and Info panels.
Results: In both steps 3 and 4, the Hue value for pure Yellow (#ffff00) appears as 60 degrees in the Color Mixer panel but 59 degrees in the Info panel.
Expected results: The Hue for pure Yellow (#ffff00) should appear as 60 degrees in both panels.
Note that this issue affects the Info panel's HSB mode only; the RGB and Hex values are consistent between panels. Also note that this bug affects over 50% of the "pure" hues within CS6's Color Cubes swatches palette. For more info, see the following forum post:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1083391
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hello,
can some one help me, i am trying to find the intercept points on a plotted graph so that if i input a y value i can get the corresponding x values of the plotted line which intersect at plotted line. please see attatched VI.
to explain again what i am aiming to do is essentially (this may be another way to do it) is postion two cursors in the graph and get the x and y vaules although i would like to specify a y value.
also in the attached file i have set a property node which displays the x value for a y input but i cant do the same for both cursors, could i also get some help on that
Attachments:
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here's a snippet showing you a possible solution:
It has one problem, if the Y-values are not increasing it won't find a correct match.
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hi experts,
I need to set a default value for a zfeild using status profile.Although we can default the values,using getter and setter methods,but in my requirement,the feild will be defaulted when the page is locked,also in display mode,which will require me to write code to unlock then set the value and then write a commit,as there wont be any user action performed.
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