Selective color blue/cyan keeping flesh tones??

indybones

indybones

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Hi peeps,

was wondering if any one would be able to help me out with a tricky problem.

I want to create that blue/cyan wash that can be seen in many cinematic films, especially horror films such as Ring 2 (USA Version). It can also be seen in music video such as Evanescence Lithium..

Now the problem is not the blue/cyan wash I can do that by just pushing the mid tones, shadows and highlights to the various different shades of blue/cyan. Or lay a tint over the footage, or lay a separate color track over the top of the footage and composite with a low opacity. The problem is keeping the natural skin color of skin tones to the people who have been filmed, whilst applying the blue/cyan filter. What happens is that the skin tones just take on the same blue/cyan wash as everything else.

I have included a pic of the Evanescence image I was on about. Now it might be that I'm just trying to get something that can't be done in post, and has more to do with specific lighting when shooting, but if there is a way????

Thank you for your time and help

Indy

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I think that for what you are trying to do, you might need to dig into apple color, because you might need to apply effects to secondaries etc. fcp can only take you so far, apple color is the best for looks like the one you want, I now use color and just color for all my cc, anyway,
if you stay in fcp, try shifting your blacks towards blue, play around with the midtones and keep your highlights pure white
 
You can do it in FCP, although not very gracefully, using multiple instances of the 3-way Color Corrector, and it's Limit Effect feature to isolate specific colors, as well as using masks and multiple layers of the same clip if you can't get all the isolation you need using just the 3-way CC.

Color provides a much easier way to do this, but then you have to learn Color and all the odd workflow quirks that app has.


-A
 
I've done this in Color by pushing the Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights to blue. Then I went to my secondaries and keyed my skins and pushed then back to natural tones.
 
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