Thursday, January 17, 2013

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

 

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

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" wrote:
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> Smooth Tone is your friend. It's scary good at this.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" wrote:
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> > You might try smooth tone in BCC in the image restoration section.

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