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Skin tone check
Is there a skin tone checker in Resolve as in Colorista? Any orher way to check if skin tone is correct besides the scopes? Thanks in advance.
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Correct skin tones ?
Colorista !! OMG, dude.
I mean, a skintone should always reflect the lighting in the room, the interaction with the atmosphere and of course and most important, Not stand out like a puppet mask (Michael Bay) .
So I got my skintone checker right above my nose.
It needs to look good, not have a certain color value.A slice of color…
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well said Sascha!
I had a show last week where a subject was standing about 4 feet from a green neon sign and the client was like his skin tone doesn’t match the previous scene. Of course it didn’t! The whole perfect skin tone thing drives me a little bonkers because there is no such thing and as you point out the illuminant in the scene should be the main diving factor. The flesh tone line that everyone is always trying to get trace right on is not a hard and fast rule but rather a target, some people are a little more red, some people a little more yellow.
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Remind me case i had 15 years ago.
Producer asked me why is this taking so long.
You have computer and there you have probably 2 buttons.
1. make and 2. beautiful. See that does not take so long just press 1 and 2.It is a bit same here. Make beautiful.
I agree with Sascha that you do not have ever hardly clean skin tones.
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Margus
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I would have added to this:
U grade order to look good in the whole scene, not a single shot – sometimes green, sometimes orange – it only determines the light in terms of shot.DaVinci 8.0.1 OS X 10.7
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1 feature film
1 men
many skin tone :))
Source – Canon 5D
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And here two examples of what they mean when talking about “natural healthy looking ” skintones :
https://www.imdb.com/media/rm3594424064/tt0418279
https://www.imdb.com/media/rm3242102528/tt0418279Which in fact is keying the skintones out, desaturating 50% or more and then pushing it to orange.
As natural as Pam´s rack 😀
A slice of color…
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Yes Sascha, Yes!!!
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So the short answer is no..? I just wanted a simple answer. I’m aware of the skin tone looking different under different conditions but thanks anyways. Your answers will help me explain varying skin tones to my clients. Regards.
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I have a notebook of looks I keep on hand. Just added a new one:
“Pop Action Movie Skintones”
-Key skintones
-De-saturate 50% or more.
-Add orange as needed.Thanks Sascha!
JM
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Don’t forget this skin tone only works if you key rest of picture increase saturation 50% or more then change hue to heavy Cyan!
Danny Scotting – Senior Colourist
Post Op Group Sydneyhttps://postopgroup.com.au/site/?page_id=1052
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