Advanced Beauty Grading Part One : The Corrections

now that’s good stuff!

Love this series, looking forward to part 2 and future insights into more intense beauty work

This type of “corrective” beauty fixes has been a lot of my work recently. Really helps to see your suggestions and style. Many thanks. Looking forward to the “next level”.

PS is Discus acting strange neww anyone else or is it just me? I have a new acct linked to my mixinglight acct

Jason, you’re not alone. Things are just updated on the backend for what concerns the comments. What I suggest for now: go on disqus.com and enter your usual login and password. Then, go to settings, and then click on the last tab called ‘Merging’. Disqus will recognize the new ‘wrong’ account and will let you merge it with your old one. Worked for me.

Very well-done. This is a far better approach than people who want to try to do all of this kind of work with just a plug-in.

great!
but I got one question. wouldn’t hue vs. hue curves help to deal with magenta?

Jason – As Christophe said, we’ve switched Disqus so you’re automatically logged in when logging into the site. We’re still working out kinks for those members who have commented in the past. For those who never commented before, they’ll find they can do so now without creating a Disqus account.

But as you can see – I’m having trouble linking my previous user Settings to this ‘new’ setting (which you should be able to do as Christophe just pointed out). It didn’t work for me, yet. Once we have this solved, I’ll put up a blog post on all this…

In photoshop you can use the high pass filter to target contrast at various frequencies. I wonder if there is a way in resolve to do the same? There is a beauty box openfx plugin that could help with skin smoothing. http://www.digitalanarchy.com/beautyVID/main.html

Thanks guys! Merged successful

Excellent. Now I need to get my merge worked out. I just opened another Support ticket with Disqus…

I’ve had extensive experience w Beauty Box in AE and recently in Resolve. Its an AWESOME plug-in, but it just doesnt replace hand beauty work we’re talking about here. Its fantastic for working on lots of shots quickly, and evening out some skin (especially pushing it w a slight hue or saturation to reduce a cast or bring out some color). It does have an adjustable skin “blur smooth”, which I like to reduce quite a bit, as its a bit much IMO. The shine reduce is very nice for rebuilding highlights in skin naturally. It’s masking features work really well, but DO tend to grab a lot of the background so I tend to use the plug-ins mask PLUS a mask in resolve to protect. That being said, Im working on a project w hundred of shots w “skin” retouching and coloring and BB has made those shots significantly easier. Yes, i could have done it by hand, but the budget does not allow it, and thats where this plug-in shines. Where you need SOME results, but clients cant afford the time for the true beauty work, I usually will try the plug-in route. Long story short: nothing you can’t do yourself, but it does speed things up. A trained manual hand will ALWAYS look better tho. Hope that helps, and give the demo a go.

Also tried portraiture video OFX, but just didnt measure up to Beauty Box.

Really great Dan. I especially like your approach of staying away from blurs and as a result the picture feels really ‘honest’
With your use of contrast and hue and the actor still looks like her and not a piece of plastic. 🙂

Nice Jason. Great review. Thanks for sharing!

Here is a project I did this weekend using frequency separation to remove wrinkles
https://vimeo.com/115951492

I used the power grade below and use node sizing to slide texture over the wrinkles. I also applied beauty box as well at the end.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u62jt7dvywgncid/Skin_Smoothing_LinearLight_Node_Tree.drx

http://www.liftgammagain.com/forum/index.php?threads/natural-skin-smoothing-davinci-resolve.2983/

Very good results, Greg! What exactly are you doing w the node sizing? (Im following the frequency seperation convo on that thread w the powergrade). Just not quite grasping ur description on Vimeo. Thanks and very nice work!