Correcting Skin Tone
I am using a MAC version of Photoshopt Elements 8.0.8.0. I am attempting to Correct skin tone via (Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Color for Skin Tone) When I make this selection, I should get an "Eye dropper" for a cursor to make the correction to the color. Instead I am getting the "grab hand" and it does not make the change in the color.
I am having the same issue with the (Removing a Color Cast).
Anyone have any idea?
I could not capture the "+" cursor in the screen shot, but that is the cursor I get after clicking on OK in the second screen shot.
Barbara I hope this helps.
Darnell
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What are the ranges for correct skin tones using RGB%?
What are the ranges for correct skin tones using RGB%? Used to using a scale from 0 to 255. But with LR it's RGB , I know 100% RGB is white. What do you use for %?
While I whole heartedly agree that we should not be constrained to hard and fast numbers for accurate skin tones ... LR does offer an RGB color readout ... I am assuming they made those percentages available for the user to monitor the breakdown of specific color values for a reason ... so we could have an indication of how a specific color in an image will be reproduced ...
I liken this to using a speedometer ... while many experienced drivers in well tuned vehicles can travel on the highway at the prescribed legal speed limit without really monitoring the readout on the dashboard ... however, there are times when they would like to verify the speed at which they are traveling ... the RGB color percentage readout in LR is no different ... just a source of information to verify you are achieving what you desire ...
Again, going by specific numbers in this instance, I believe, could lead to problems ... there may be times when you may desire or actually need to adjust skin tones ... even though a pleasing WB has been achieved ... the relationship of R, G and B can be used to get you there.
From what I have researched and put into practice with LR the following seems to be a good starting point and the data was borrowed from "the pixelation" blog:
R: highest %
G: middle %
B: lowest %
To get a little more specific. In general,
R: Y + (15-20)
G: average of R and B
B: R – (15-20)
For example, the following values represent common Caucasian skin tones using the rules above:
* R: 80%; G: 70%; B: 60%. R is 20 points higher than B, and G is midway between R and B. That’s perfect.
* R: 86%, G: 78%; B: 70% also reflects a nicely balanced skin tone. Again, G is midway between R and B, and R is 16 points higher than B. This, too, illustrates a great relationship among the colors. -
What are some ways of getting correct skin tones, I've tried custom white balance and the tones are still off. Help please.
Here's a video on correcting skin tones without having to resort to CMYK and using LR's RGB values:
Low Rez (YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWaFDKrNrwc
High Rez
http://digitaldog.net/files/SkinToneVideo.mov -
Color correction on magenta skin tones / white shirt
I want to color correct a shot that is very blue/ magenta.
I would like the skin tones to be less magenta and more orange/yellow.
I get the best results by adding yellow on the Midtones and Shadows.
My problem is that the Highlights are going yellow, specially a white shirt. I get a better result by by then adding blue on the Highlights. I'm wondering if it's the right thing to do... Also, some Midtones are still too magenta.
I could isolate the skin tones as secondaries, but still, I have to color correct other parts of the image.
Any tip? Should I use the advanced settings?
I know my question as no miracle answer and that color correction should be done by a pro, but I would appreciate any suggestion, thanks.cariocastyle wrote:
I want to color correct a shot that is very blue/ magenta.
I would like the skin tones to be less magenta and more orange/yellow.
I get the best results by adding yellow on the Midtones and Shadows.
I'm wondering if it's the right thing to do...
I don't know, what does your eye tell you?
Before anyone can suggest any sort of solution, you need to provide a still as Mr. Owens asked for and then provide some direction for what you want.
No 2 people on the face of the earth see exactly the same. Color is entirely subjective. If you like what you're doing (I would ask, how you're seeing anything accurately from an iMac) then who cares what anyone else thinks? Unless, someone is paying you for your talent, then you'd best have the best rig money can buy as anything less is a lie. -
Request better support skin tone evaluation/measurement
Hello. I am writing this with the intention that it will be read by the folks at Adobe that are involved in the development of Lightroom. I'm pretty new to this forum, however, and I'm a little confused about whether this feature requests thread actually goes to the Adobe Lightroom team, considering that it is in a user-to-user forum. If there is a better avenue to get my feature request to Adobe, I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.
Before I get into my request, I also want to mention that I did my due diligence and searched this thread to make sure this has not been requested before.
I am submitting this request because I do not see any useful way to measure or evaluate skin tone in Lightroom while adjusting white balance (or after adjusting white balance, for that matter). I can do a mouse-over to read RGB values, but I am not aware of any useful way to use RGB values for evaluating skin tones.
I just watched the latest George Jardine video, in which he recommends to use a calibrated monitor and move the Develop controls back and forth until your eye tells you it's correctly adjusted. I enjoyed this video, and I have found that this generally works well for me for tone balance, but I believe an additional tool for measuring or evaluating skin tones would benefit the Lightroom workflow as I will explain below.
I believe that many serious photographers, pro and amateur alike, routinely use the eyedropper in Photoshop for reading CMYK values to confirm the skin tones in their work. Even if they feel like they can usually eyeball pretty well, they find they get greater consistency when they use the eyedropper.
Now I'm not saying that Lightroom necessarily needs CMYK support. Photoshop Elements, for example has a skin tone adjustment even though it doesn't have CMYK support. And I'm also not suggesting that Lightroom necessarily needs skin tone sliders like Photoshop Elements. I'm just suggesting that the Lightroom workflow would benefit from some kind of tool for evaluating skin tone while or after adjustments are being made in the Develop Module. I would like to leave it up to Lightroom to decide exactly how to implement this.
The only way I currently see to do adjust while measuring skin tones is to open the file in Photoshop, make adjustments, and save. Even if there is a way to do this with ACR and have the adjustments saved in the sidecar or in the DNG, it still seems like a time-comsuming and unnecessary step for my workflow.
Now this request is predicated on the assumption that evaluting skin tone is fundamental enough for a basic workflow that it should be included in Lightroom. In my opinion it is, and that is why I am making this feature request. I'm sure that some might not need it for their workflow, but it seems to me that this would be a valuable feature to a great many Lightroom users.
Thanks for lending your ear, Adobe. I look forward to ALL your future versions of Lightroom, and I hope that skin tone evaluation/measurement is included in one of them.
Regards,
MikeYour post seems to assume that Lightroom is a tool for travel/landscape photography, and other types of photography (e.g., portrait/fashion) should be supported by a "specialized add-on module". I have to disagree with you on that point. Considering many of the examples on the Lightroom marketing are fashion shoots, I would think that they considers portrait/fashion photographers to be an important part of their target audience. They are not a fringe group of specialists.
I'm sure that portrait/fashion photographers would feel the same way about a Lightroom capability that primarily benefits the workflow of a travel/landscape photographer, i.e., when I do do some landscape work, I just edit in Photoshop. But you wouldn't agree to that, would you?
Skin tone measurement can be an incredibly easy tool to implement. It can be something as simple as showing the CMY values alongside the RGB values during a mouseover. Keep in mind, I'm talking about CMY not CMYK, so there should be no need to worry about what ICC profile to use. RGB to CMY is a straightforward transformation. It's embarassingly simple.
There are other ways Adobe can implement skin tone management that would be more powerful but a little more complicated. Those would be great too.
Anyway, thanks for the link to the Adobe feature request page! I will use it.
Regards,
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CS6 Beta questions: skin tones, camera calibration in Camera RAW
While this is supposed to be a fully functional version, I am missing the Patch and Move content aware tools, the Skin Tones function does not work, there is no camera calibration except for Adobe Standard available under Camera RAW 7.0 and none of the links uder "Help" work. When I try to look for updates I am assured that I have the latest version. Does this sound right to you? Am I just not looking in the right places for these features or are they indeed not available in Beta, in which case it is of course impossible to try them out.
Thanks very much, Pattie. I was not holding down the Healing brush. That all works fine now. However, what about camera profiles for camera calibration in Camera Raw 7.0 and why don't the skin tones work? I am using a reasonably new HP laptop with plenty of horsepower and Windows 7. Here is my system info. Can you help further?
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Skin tone adjustments in Aperture
I normally use Photoshop for editing, and Aperture as an "image management" and output system. However, I just did a shoot of my brother's baby and I have 200+ pictures to correct so PS is not an option this time. My nephew's skin is very red, so I'm wondering what the best way to correct that is in Aperture. I normally use selective color or curves in PS, but neither of those are available in Aperture.
Thanks,
ChrisHi there,
Sounds like we use the same prcedure for similar reasons.
Yes and no to your question, and sadly, a bigger NO that there isn't a true workflow. We're into the best workaround FOR YOU. Mine is FOR ME, and (as my wife will tell you, I'm unique .... which I take as a compliment, errrrr).
Yes, the time to batch export and then import may be faster, technically, possibly, maybe, who knows?
No, the issue of getting the photos tagged back into the stacks (if this is of use to you) becomes manual activity and is unsupported by the system outside of sort conditions.
You can easily overwhelm memory with CS2 loading images and Aperture there as well, so I tend to do 10 or a dozen at a time ... more if image size and memory permits. Run an Action in CS2 unless masks are needed, Save and Close. On Save, the image is placed back into Aperture without any further work on your (i.e. MINE since I am LAAAZY).
BTW, somebody else mentioned this. I am a big fan, but have ghad to learn to work with quarter tone Levels. If the color shift is most needful on the skin tones, and less objectionable elsewhere, you may be able to use the quarter tone adjusts in combination with exposure and white balance adjustments within Aperture. Oh, how I would like selection and masks!!!! -
I have photoshop CS2, wanting to adjust the skin tones
I take photos of clothing for a on-line seller. I have been using a Nikon D-200 which seems not to like the various blues of jeans. When I adjust the color of the the jeans, it of course changes the skin color. How could I isolate the skin for color correction. Any ideas would be much appreciated
Hi John, Thank you for the tip, I will practice the methods you suggest.
Sincerely,
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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:57:21 -0700
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To: [email protected]
Subject: I have photoshop CS2, wanting to adjust the skin tones
You've almost answered your own question. You'll need to "isolate" the skin areas in your photograph(s). This is a tedious process that takes some getting used to. I tend to use the "lasso" tool, but you could use something like the "magic wand" tool. If it's the jeans you want to manipulate, you'll have to "select" them separately. I'd get the selections and then save them separately ( Selections > Save Selections ). You might want to post this in the Photoshop section of these forums and see what they come back with over there. Up until now, it sounds like you're color correcting the entire photograph, so nice blues, but not so nice skin tones. Makes sense to isolate them from eachother, no?
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How to make skin tone like newborn baby?
I take a photo that is a girl.
Her skin tone is near yellow tone.
How to make skin tone like newborn baby?
It means: brightly, have a little pink, and translucent (I don't know how to say that...).
I've already search this question, but my english is not good....
I don't know which word is apportiprate....
Hope someone can help me.
Thank youIn my opinion,
* 70% of the job is getting white balance correct, since that will help baby look, in the picture, close to the same color baby was, in real life.
* 15% is selecting a camera profile that renders colors closest to how you want.
* 10% comes from HSL tool.
* 5% from locals (paint to touch up color).
Note: you may also need temp/tint locals if photo shot under mixed light: flourescent is greenish, incandescent is yellowish, flash is flash, daylight is different...
Note: numeric values are for illustration purposes only - the point is that you don't want to go painting until you've got everything else squared away, and you don't want to be mucking with HSL until you've got a fitting camera calibration profile selected and white balance adjusted.
Not sure what else to say, except color can be further refined (in addition to the above-mentioned) using:
* RGB curves
* split toning
* ratio of saturation to vibrance
* amount of contrast
* shadow-tint
and you can develop your own camera calibration profile just for baby skin if you want ;-)
Cheers,
Rob -
Why i can't use skin tone brush (only on skin) and than correct white balance on oll photo. i wont do that at the same time.
Thanks for the answer! It turns out we can not simultaneously use a brush to the skin tone and then go to the white balance and edit it. What is it for?
As I tried to explain - the white balance correction is for correcting color effects caused by the available light in the scene, if the light is not white and has a color that differs from sun light. Then the color will shift.
With the eyedropper you will tell Aperture how to shift the color back, by showing Aperture a sample that should show skin color or natural gray, and Aperture will estimate the necessary correction from that sample. White balance correction is supposed to be applied globally for large areas of the image that are illuminated by the same light.
If you need to color correct additionally for other color problems, like faces of persons that had too much wine, use the color correction brush in addition to the global white balance correction.
In your example, you could use the color brick on the grooms face, after doing the white correction, and brush a correction in, that tunes down the red. -
I'm seeing this browner skin tones "look" a lot in fashion photography, almost like an instant tan that works for light and not so light caucasian skin tones. So far I am flumoxed (sp?) as to how to create this look. Someone suggested warming up the white balance, then backing off saturation and luminance on the orange (-15 and -20 respectively), but I'm wondering whether anyone knows of presets and/or other techniques that one can implement in LR for batch-processing a large set of photos.
I believe the correct spelling is "flummoxed". Anyway, I change skin colour in Lightroom often by using the colour brush and the relevant intensity slider and play with both until I get it the way I want. The problem is you need a mask so as not to get any surprises in the rest of the image. This means batch processing isn't your ally. There are programs out there that specialize in one-click portrait skin adjustments and they do a pretty good job but even so, you'll have to verify each image which defeats the pupose. Good luck.
Brian -
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:
Even though the numbers are "correct" in the second version, I think it has gone too far in the other direction.
In any event, I'd like to know 1) if others have the same problem with the way skin tones appear in LR, 2) if you have found a good way of color correcting for skin in LR without exporting to PS. I'd like to get the color as accurate as possible in LR so I don't have to edit every image in Photoshop.
Thanks.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. -
Color in fcp7 changes to crushed blacks and warm skin tones for some reason
So I have a MBP Retina, 2.6 GHZ, 16GB memory, 512 SSD. I have two external displays LG IPS LED ones connected via hdmi. For some strange reason, when I perform a given function or just randomly the color of my video becomes highly contrasted, and warm. When I first begin my project everything looks great, but say for example I go to Window>Arrange>Standard, the windows will orgainze themsleves as usual, but then the color will become drastically crushed (see before and after photos below) The image becomes heavily contrasted as well as very warm in the red spectrum. When I disconnect the monitor to see if it is an issue of the external display and just view FCP on my laptop, the images remain the same, crushed blacks and warm/redish skin tones. But everything looks fine, if I close the program, disconnect the external displays and then recconnect them again and open FCP 7 again. It will NOT do this if I stay on my laptop only, seems to only do it when I have either one or two external displays attached.
Not sure if anyone has come accross this yet, any clues? The first photo is how it normally looks, the second is with the strange color annomily.In FCP, go to the menu Final Cut Pro > System Settings and click on the Playback Control Tab.
Make sure the Gamma Correction is set to Approximate:
MtD -
ACR/Canon D5 Colour Balance - nasty pinkish skin tones
I use macbook pro, 2.33GHz/3GB 667MHz RAM with CS3 and ACR 4.3.1. I shoot Canon D5.
When I shoot RAW, I get this strange pinkish look to the skin tones that I can't seem to correct. I've experimented with colour balance and hue, and the HSL and camera calibration tools, but not happy yet.
Apologies if this is a basic issue, but would love some advice.
Thanks.I think that is a standard catch-all message but it really is a poor show that a simple download page is so often unavailable.
Just part of the new look Adobe. It really is a pity there's no serious competition yet, but if they keep going downhill at the present rate there will be! -
Skin Tones Look Wrong When Printing From iPhoto
Hi
I'm having trouble getting the caucasian skin tones to look right on photos printed with my Epson Stylus C86 printer on Epson Premium Semigloss paper. They look too pinky/purple when compared with the screen of the Sony DSC camera I shot them with and also my iMac's monitor. They just look wrong as though the subjects have a combination of bad sunburn, high blood pressure and are blushing at the same time!
I've tried the following tips synthesised from other threads:
1. Downloaded the latest set of drivers from Epson's website.
2. Ensured that they are associated with the printer in ColorSync utility.
3. Selected the Use ColorSync option when printing from iPhoto's print dialogue box.
These made no difference to the default behaviour i.e. same color problems.
Could anyone guide me to a solution? I would rather not have to use another application to print them if possible. I'm not used to my Mac not "just working".
ThanksWhat color profile do the pics have? Is the printer set to the same profile?
Regards
TD
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