Removing the red from my ears

[Todd Kopriva]

I’d use Roto Brush to separate yourself from the background and then use a color correction effect on the layer containing you but not the bricks. Since it’s a color adjustment, and I presume that you’re not going to crank it too far, you don’t need to be pixel-perfect with the matte.

I show how to do something very similar in the tutorial linked to in the first bulleted item here:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2010/04/roto-brush-in-after-effects-cs.html

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[John Cuevas]

You can try using Color Finesse and secondary color correction. I did a 3 different secondary selections and was able to pull a decent amount of red out. First 2 tabs were the left ear, 1 try on the right. Selections really needed a tight range, you get into bricks pretty quickly.

7665_secondarycolorcorrection.aep.zip

Andrew Devis did a tutorial on it. Secondary Color Correction in After Effects

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[George Goodman]

Thanks John,

I’m surprised the secondary isolated it that well, I had considered that, but really thought there was just too much red. I think that’s what I’ll have to do though. I realized after the fact that it was the backlight shining through my ears that caused it, ha.

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Sincerely,

George

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[Joseph W. bourke]

George –

In case you ever want to know – in the 3D texture and material mapping world, that light through your ear is called sub-surface scattering, or SSS. You never know when it might come up at a cocktail party :>)

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