Hodie wrote: fuzzykeys wrote:
I just did this a few days ago on some shots of a model in a pool where there was major blue color contamination from light reflecting off the water. Gradient maps fixed it up nicely and with minimum fuss without being too strong as to be unrealistic looking and fail to take the fact that the water is in fact blue out of the equation 100%. I think the result eliminated the distraction. The shots are on my last Instagram post but I will try to export some versions for the forum as well. You do need a tidier mask than you would for a less brute force method like selective color or hue/saturation but IMHO this works very well and is a mainstay in my portrait editing workflow because things like this simply happen all the time to me even when I try to avoid them. For harder edges like you have here on the camera right cheek, object selection with a little 0.5-1 pixel feathering in PS works well and quickly. Just shift+f5 after you’ve selected the skin and then fill with white paint with the layer mask selected. Anyway, I’d rather get the shot I want and fix the color when necessary, and gradient maps are super powerful! I also use them for more brute force color grading when more subtle shifting of hues is just not cutting it. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes!
Hodie wrote: fuzzykeys wrote:
@Hodie@@@@@@ this is my favorite hack for contaminated skin tones. Create a gradient map adjustment layer in PS and then turn it off. Go to the eye dropper tool and then the toolbar at the top of the PS interface. Make sure your sampling is at least set to 3x3 average to avoid sampling noise. Go back to your gradient map and double click on it to open the options, double click the left node and select a shadow (but not extreme shadow) color from the non-contaminated skin. Double click the right node and select a highlight but not a specular highlight. Turn the gradient map layer on, set the blending mode to color, and create an empty black mask. Paint over the contaminated skin with a 100% opacity brush. It will look like way too strong of a correction so reduce the opacity of the gradient map to ~25-35%. It almost always works. You can try some different samples if it doesn’t quite look right. There is also very little harm in painting this onto all of the skin to unify the hues a bit, which I do quite a bit!
Thanks, Matt! I'll come back to this and try it out. Appreciate it!
I just tried the gradient map and it took out a lot of the red blotches on the skin, but I think it makes the skin look more yellow. His skin did actually have some red blotches on it because it was so damn hot that day. The unedited RAW shows this.
I've been looking at this photo so much now, I've kind of lost track of what I'm supposed to be correcting. Dumb question: What is it that I should be looking to fix? Here's the unedited photo (RAW > JPEG).
a quick edit if you don't mind
Aug 08, 2021 at 01:09 PM
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