Skin tone correction using RGB Curves in Lightroom 5

[wolfnowl]

I don't shoot people but this is an intriguing tip for portrait work, even if you have to fudge the numbers a bit.

http://www.tipsquirrel.com/skin-tone-correction-using-rgb-curves-lightroom-5/

Mike.

[john beardsworth]

Maybe it shows how much some people want to use Lightroom as if it is Photoshop, Mike? The more fiddly the technique, the better it must be?

[Simon Garrett]

Stone me, there has to be a better way than that!

[Rhossydd]

Maybe it shows how much some people want to use Lightroom as if it is Photoshop

Not everyone has Photoshop, plus it's non destructive and leaves all the easy LR output options open.

I'd guess once you've used that method a few times it would become simple enough.
Often tips like this are harder to write and read, than actually do.

[john beardsworth]

Not everyone has Photoshop...

Talk about missing the point....

[PhotoEcosse]

Given that natural "skin tones" cover such a wide range - from jaundiced yellow to beery cerise - my problem with this would be trying to remember the correct skin tone for the person I photographed.

Remember Blue Mink's Melting Pot?

[hjulenissen]

I believe that human skin has a somewhat limited chromatic span (while e.g. luminance vary a lot). It is consistent enough that it is proposed for face detection (google "chrominance of human skin").

I would love to have something similar to the WB picker where I could choose "choose WB to make this patch consistent with caucasian".

-h

[JRSmit]

Why not have the make up companies provide the swatches? Personally i consider this a last resort if you failed to include proper color management in your workflow. Imavine ha ing to do this for hundreds of images of a wedding shoot.

[Simon Garrett]

If the tipsquirrel method is good (I've not tried it) then what about a tool that somewhat automates it?  Perhaps creates a user-configurable skin tone correction that you can paint on, or an automated way of tweaking curves as in the tipsquirrel method. 

[Tim Lookingbill]

The original posted image and subsequent screengrabs in that blog aren't color managed so I'm not sure if the green cast of the blogger's 'After' correction is that pronounced. Not how I'ld fix the image anyway. Wonder how many photographers who edit skin tone are aware of how an overall image's WB creates color constancy errors. You can't fix it going by the skin tone numbers.

I did better on the original jpeg (first assigning sRGB in Photoshop and opened in ACR) with some HSL hue tweaks to Red/Orange and color temp a bit towards blue and reducing Brightness and a bit of Contrast (highlights nearly clipped in ProPhotoRGB) that got rid of the red skin in the bride without an overall green cast.