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Jun 10, 2007
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i remember reading a technique for adjusting face tones by somehow aligning the red blue and green colors in a 45 degree angle but don’t remember the details. anyone have some info on this?

tia … steve
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Mike Russell
Jun 10, 2007
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i remember reading a technique for adjusting face tones by somehow aligning the red blue and green colors in a 45 degree angle but don’t remember the details. anyone have some info on this?

A good, average skin tone for any racial group should have significantly more red than green, and less blue than either red or green. It is centered around a hue angle of about 20 degrees, from about 0 degrees (for very pink skin) to about 30 degrees. The easiest way to check this is to set the info palette to HSB mode, and set the hue to about 20 degrees.

A hue angle of 45 degrees is at about the upper limit of yellow for any skin tone. Saturation is less important than hue, but also affects the appearance- too saturated and the skin tones will look painted on or radioactive – too little and people look drab and sick. Brightness can vary greatly.

"Pinning" skin tones by controlling hue and saturation is an important part of the curvemeister plugin.
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Fat Sam
Jun 10, 2007
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i remember reading a technique for adjusting face tones by somehow aligning the red blue and green colors in a 45 degree angle but don’t remember the details. anyone have some info on this?

tia … steve

Sounds like you’re talking about the curves pallette to me.
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Papa Joe
Jun 17, 2007
On 2007-06-10 04:17:41 -0300, said:

i remember reading a technique for adjusting face tones by somehow aligning the red blue and green colors in a 45 degree angle but don’t remember the details. anyone have some info on this?

tia … steve

Not only can you make the skin tones better at the editing level in your image app, but also on how you use screen angles, paper and special finishes at the commercial press.

I’ve heard of some fashion magazine graphic firms that flip the angles of the CMYK values. I guess this is beyond most of us and would require expertise and tweaking.

Personally, I prefer editing in RGB and I just make sure the skin tones have a certain precent more red than green , more green than blue. Unless they are tan or very dark skin.

I’ve also used some plugins and on occasion have scans of some goos stock photography or models that I opne in photoshop and do a side by side comparison with info palette and visual. Of course it need to be the same seeting (daylight, outdoor/indoor, 5000k)

Good luck.
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