Not surprising that your attempt looks very like mine except that I
didn't bother with painting out the slightly yellowish hair since I
wasn't going to display the result. I started with the modified version
as the base layer rather than the top layer but that only effects how
much we move the opacity slider.
While it would be better to use raw when feeding an image to ACR it also
works with JPEG's and, since Bob's original image doesn't need a great
deal of color adjustment, I think it would be acceptable to use a JPEG
here if you had to.
I agree that shooting a white balance reference card would probably be
good but, in the end, it's what looks pleasing to the eye (and the
correct eye) that counts.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
>
> I'm with Chuck on this one. I dropped the warm, weird color hair shot in
> a layer on top of the original, lowered the opacity 'til I got a skin
> color that I liked (45%) - a white person in winter, but a living one.
> ;-) Then i made it a mask layer and painted out the hair area with a
> softish brush with low flow.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Whitmire/Esteemed.htm>
>
> If this was shot RAW, playing with the color temp slider in the
> converter will do a better, subtler job of adjustment than the filter or
> whatever effect the Pbase person used.
>
> If I were doing this, I would shoot a reference card even if I weren't
> interested in serious accuracy, just to have a reference for comparison
> to my adjustments so I would know how far I had gone.
>
> Moose
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