Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Skin detail for 60+

Avid paint effect.
Blur.
Magic mask. select the skin tone.

No plug in needed.
Completely adjustable and trackable.

Good luck.
Tal




On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Verne Mattson <vdmattson@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> In the Baselight plug in, the "Soften" operator does a very nice job with
> skin tones.
>
> Verne
>
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> From: Martin martin@MartinNelson.com>
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 11:48 AM
>
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Skin detail for 60+
>
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> I had a lead actor with a really bad outbreak of acne and I found Smooth
> Tone was insufficient to the task, it was a little too nuanced. I used
> Cartoon Look. I isolated his face using Pixel Chooser and a PC Region and
> set the PC Matte to Chroma Diff choosing his skintone. I then turned off
> Lines (the 'inking' part of a cartoon) and adjusted Soften and Cartoon
> levels until I was satisfied with the result.
>
> I was able to soften his skin as much as I liked (and thought I could get
> away with) without blurring the background, his eyes, hair, etc. Hardly
> painless, but it worked.
>
> Apple's Color does (did) a better/easier job of this (I softened the lines
> on an older actress's face), but it has all it's own issues.
>
> Martin
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