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Do I have to have it on a server?

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copy link to post, highlight link, click on IMG.

Done and done.

Here is my image sans colorista (used color balance to make the image blue)

Thanks Gage for the imageshack info

By Ttown71

Here is the result of fifteen minutes of work. Just playing around and seeing what I could do quickly.

First One:

Second One:

Third One (Green for the Hulk):

All are done with just a three-way color correction and curves adjustment done in Sony Vegas.[/img]

curves, then hue/saturation in afx
needs a bit more correcting but its pretty closeto what i like

Quickly done in FCP with Colorista and FCP 3way.
Looks a bit too blue overall but I doo not dislike the skin tones.

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My wife Nancy did this in FCP. She can pose the details here - One of the things we both noticed about a lot of the corrections done here was the lost detail of the woma's face. So Nancy was very aware of that issue and tried to retain that detail.

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I'm working on my image now. I love this kind of homework. Smile

Stu (or any other AE guru out there)... What are the steps to do what is described here:

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	Rather than perform a key, I used the Hue and Saturation curves to isolate the skin tones and adjust them.

In my first attempt, I used a key. But I like Stu's idea better. I just don't know how to get it.

J

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Did you see these screenshots on ProLost?

-Stu

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Here's my first attempt on this shot. The woman's eye is the thing I struggled the most with. I wanted to preserve it, but it gets crushed so easily when you darken the image in any way.

I also added some more rain in After Effects. The image seemed a little more natural to me if the rain was emphasized. The guy in the background feels more real because of his squint.

(BTW - I want to know what happens next after this shot! Will he get her?!?!)

J

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	Stu wrote:
	Did you see these screenshots on ProLost?

I'll give it a shot. My power mask stick out and I'd like to avoid it.

Thanks

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Here's my attempt in Apple Color. Sending a still (embedded in a FCP timeline with a ten second duration) seemed to behave strangely which I imagine is still a bug (sometimes the image was present, sometimes not, depending on where I had the timeline marker). When I rendered it out and went back to FCP, it was a 1 frame still. I don't think color is designed for stills.

I made a primary correction to adjust contrast then made a secondary to give the blue/green effect. I made another secondary after that, using the eyedropper tool to select the skin tones and blurred the selection mask. Then I adjusted those. I did one more secondary where I put a heavily feathered rectangular vignette over the talent and chose "outside" to choose the outside of the selection and added some more blue (most noticeable in the left hand of the picture). I worked my way through the apple training color book last week so this is my first attempt after going through that.

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Updated version from the wife and her comments:

Nance sez:

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	I used the Color Corrector 3-way in FCP, masking the skin tones and inverting the selection. The hardest part was including the shadow under her eye with the skin tones. It came out blue in the first one. I cranked up the softness a little more to include that shadow:

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I went the Shake route and ran it through a color correction script I whipped up for this thing based on what you were trying to do in the original post. I like keeping the skin tones, but I get really annoyed lately when I watch movies and see the kicker light is a brilliant yellow, the face is Dick Clark orange, and the scene is blue cast. What happened to color in films? I don't think a digital tan really looks good on anyone... cept maybe MariaH Carey. Hides cellulite... [img]<a href="http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainwalkersccde7.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/306/rainwalkersccde7.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://img604.imageshack.us/content.php?page=blogpost&files=img87/306/rainwalkersccde7.jpg" title="QuickPost"><img src="http://imageshack.us/img/butansn.png" alt="QuickPost" border="0"></a>[/img]

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