Colour correcting skin tone

[andrew00]

Hey,

So I filmed a band playing recently and the lighting was pretty bad for video (I didn't have time to control it) - there were two lights - one orange, one blue. Lots of fun!

I ended up balancing to the orange and cutting out the blue haze it had w/colour curves in Vegas. However, this has led the video to make skin tones too red, like someone has been working out much too much etc. I've used Colour Balance to pull down the red to a degree, but if I go too far then the image just gets the dodgy blue haze over it again.

I was wondering if anyone can recommend how I can reduce the redness on the bands' faces without kissing the colour contrast and leaving it all blue.

Thanks a lot, I'm no Vegas expert so any help would be welcome, cheers.

 

[HorseFilms]

Try downloading this free plugin:
http://www.moosehill.se/index.php?page=vegas/6cc.php

With it, you can easily select the reds and lower the saturation to your liking without messing with the rest of the picture. It might work really well in this situation.

 

[andrew00]

That turned out to be just the trick - cheers!

 

[HorseFilms]

Excellent!:beer:

 

[Deuceofspades]

Try downloading this free plugin:
http://www.moosehill.se/index.php?page=vegas/6cc.php

With it, you can easily select the reds and lower the saturation to your liking without messing with the rest of the picture. It might work really well in this situation.

I love you man!! :laugh: I was just about to post same question and can't wait to get the plug in and try it out.

 

[David Jimerson]

Sometimes what works better, instead of lowering the saturation of red, is to nudge the hue slider to the left, more toward the yellow. Give it a shot.