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Fixing Skin Imperfections
Is there any way in AE 6.5 with Production Bundle that I can fix some skin imperfections on a subject in my project. If so, how? Or is there a plug in available that might help me.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks
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There are various ways of doing this. The most usual is good old rotoscoping (frame by frame painting) based on the tried and true magazine retouch technique of air brushing (although in this digital age you’re usually you are using the clone tool rather than airbrush of any type). Films such as the last Harry Potter had some compositors assigned to doing pimple removal, and a lot more films are starting to use digital work in post to fix blemishes not concealed by makeup at the time. So yeah, short answer is using the clone tool (with a feathered brush shape). Another (more silent era, black and white film) technique is the softening off of the persons complexion as a whole (they used to do this with leading ladies in old films, using soft lighting, lense filters, etc), …you can do similar in after effects by glowing out the highlights a little (the way I do it is to duplicate your footage layer, on the upper layer add a fast blur (check the “repeat edge pixels” checkbox and choose a value of about 25), change the layers mode to “screen” and then alter the opacity to taste.
Hope that helps!
andrew
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Thanks Andrew, I really appreciate the quick response. I usually don’t get any response on other forums. I’ll give it a try. Thanks again!
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You can make a matte and apply noise reduction to it.
Using channel selector ad maybe even a threshold effect you want to make a black and white matte that covers your facial area so that everything else is somewhat black. then use a track matte on an adjustment layer with noise reduction to basically blur or blend any blemishes.
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Do a search on “zit removal?.” Chris Smith has a great method.
Final Cut Studio, FCP 5.0.4, Quicktime 7.0.4, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V1.1.6, 4.5 GB RAM, Nvidia 7800, G-RAID 1TB FW800.
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Yes, a great suggestion, here are the links to those threads on zit zapping.
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https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=870427
something like this.
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