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First time correcting skin tones using scopes only. Opinions needed
ok, this time, for the first time ever, I used strictly the waveform and RGB parade to adjust my skin tones. This, according to those scopes, is perfect skin tone. On my monitor it looks like crap. How does this look on your properly calibrated monitors? If it looks good then I guess I’ll tweak my monitor until it looks good and then I can assume my monitor is as eyeball calibrated as it’s gonna get. If this looks like crap to you too, please let me know.
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Hey Duke,
That doesn’t look right, you should really use the scope for skin tone.
Use the waveform for brightness adjustments.
Here’s a nice tutorial that should get you going nicely, post your results!
https://library.creativecow.net/gleissenber_tobias/premiere_pro_advanced_color_correction/1
Vince
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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There is no “perfect skintone”-value because skin looks different depending on the lighting situation.
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You can get very close using the skin tone line because the value depends on “blood vessels”, which is why is also works on different skin colors.
https://aaronwilliams.tv/2010/12/colorist-tip-7-skin-tone-line/
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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Hey Vince, thanks for responding. I DID use my scopes. I didn’t go by what the skin tones were looking like at all. I cropped down to my forehead and made adjustments until my skin was between 50 and 70 IRE (I could only get it to between 50 and 60) and my vectorscope had a small thin line precisely on the skin tone line. And you’re saying it looks like crap on your monitor too? *sigh*
I’ll give that tutorial a shot tomorrow morning and post back the results. Thanks again.
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I meant perfect according to my scopes. Are you saying if the lighting is too dark, for example, then I shouldn’t get my skin tones between 50 and 70 IRE?
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Again, Vince, I did use the Vectorscope skintone line. Anyway, I’ll try your tutorial tomorrow. Cheers!
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ok, I’ve seen that tut before and the guy annoys me. I hate those stupid “I’m funny like Andrew Kramer” routines. Anyway, I did a quick correction. This time I made the changes to the flat image (I did it to the tweaked image before). I’m including the corrected image and the same image with some post. It looks not as red heavy as before. Anyway, let me know. Suggestions also welcome (Too dark, too saturated, etc)
Thanks again.Corrected image (Vectorscope on skin line, IRE between 50 and 70)
Color graded image
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Hey Duke,
Here’s my version. Obviously, I’m correcting a previously corrected image:
0_skintone.00_00_00_00.still002.png
I dropped the saturation a tad and fixed exposure, crushed blacks.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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Thanks, Vince! It appears that compared to your version I’m increasing saturation too much and darkening just bit. That’s just a look I go for, but I definitely need to cut down on my saturation. Cheers!
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Hi Duke,
Yes, definitely less saturation. There seems to be a mix of green in part of your face as well, that could just be grass reflections.
If you want to calibrate your screen, look at one of these:
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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