deleting light spots on faces in FC

[Ron Pestes]

Try dragging the 3-way color corrector filter onto the clip, double clicking the clip and then under the 3-way color corrector tab in the viewer drag the hightlight slider to the left.

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[Greg Leslie]

I’ve used Captains’s Blowout Fixer, a free FCP plugin that is a decent emergency hot-spot fixer, assuming not all your color channels are blown out. Say the red channel has a hot spot — this plugin lets you swap out a different channel for it (hopefully one that still has some detail in it) and then you can color-correct it to match the original. Doesn’t always work, but can help in a pinch.

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[John Fishback]

You might want to checkout this Electronic Makeup Artist. I believe they have a Demo. If you Google there are other plugins of this type. Also, you can try to add some selective blur to problem areas in addition to Ron’s excellent suggestion.

John

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Just to add an option to these options, phyx has a digital makeup kit as well:

https://www.phyxware.com/NI_Cleaner_01.html

A bit different than others, but you can try the demo.

If the shine is too bright, simply reducing highlights might not work as there’s lierally no information there. Essentially you will want to reduce the luma, and then blur a little bit to try and ‘cover’ it up.

There’s many ways to do this, incuding selecting that area and building a matte, or drawing a matter on another layer and feathering. A screen grab would help.

Jeremy

[Max Frank]

Hi,

I’d like to put in a word for Colorista II – https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-colorista-II/

It has a kind of electronic make-up feature build in [aka “Pop”] but it also has a few other powerful tools in the keyer that could help in your situation.
be sure to watch all the tutorial videos, especially the one about “cosmetics”.

W

[Gabriele Gismondi]

thanks everybody for helping..i’ll try your tips and see the results..
hugs again

[Greg Leslie]

And just today, Stu has posted a Colorista II tutorial on recovering blown-out highlights.

I have to put in another good word for CII — it’s an EXCELLENT way to get much of the functionality of COLOR without having to jump in and out of FCP.