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Adjusting skin tones

Adjusting skin tones - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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Adjusting skin tones

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- When it comes to color correction it is difficult to ascertain what a particular color was in real life. If you were at the shoot, then sure, you can remember what the item looked liked and you will be able to determine if the object needs color correction or not. However, if you were not there when this clip was shot then you don't have a point of reference on how something should look. However, this is not true with everything. There are things that we do know how they should look and skin tone is one of them. We humans know what other humans look like and we know if their skin tone is off, even if it's just a little bit. This is why we can tell at a glance if someone is ill by noticing that they look a little green. So adjusting skin tone becomes a really important part of color grading. Let's go ahead and open sequence 3-4 from the Project panel. In here we see this young man who was shot in front of a blue screen background. Well, I don't want to see all of the blue screen…

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