So how do you check to see if the skin tones that you're filming
are correct? That they are white balanced and everything?
Well, the human eye and technology today does a pretty good job at auto
balancing everything but if you really want to be scientifically correct
follow these steps in this video
Hey everyone. Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal today we are talking about
perfecting your skin tones using a variety of different
in-camera and post-production effects and I'm going to be showing you how you
can check to even know if your skin tones are correct a lot of
times some people might look a little bit too
orange or a little green a little purple and how do you even
go about correcting that. Well i'm gonna be showing you some
in-camera tips that you can do such as custom white balancing
choosing picture profiles and then i'm going to show you how you can do some
fix it in post scenarios so i'll be showing you
how to use the skin tone line in lumetri scopes and i'll be providing
the footage that i shot so when you go into post-production you
want to follow along you can use the sample footage
to see if you're doing it correctly as always i include the time codes below so
if you guys want to be able to jump around to the different time-coded
chapters to review different parts of this video
just use those time codes they're right down below you can click
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the tips
now a few years ago when i was first starting out on youtube
i was just using the auto white balance hoping that everything would look right
and you can really see that my skin tones were way off
by using the auto white balance the auto white balance cannot achieve the same
perfection as a custom white balance so the first step to achieving better skin
tones is by setting a custom white balance
and you want to do this in camera because it'll have the best results
compared to actually fixing it in post-production inside of premiere pro
so i'm using a canon and all cameras have different ways of setting the
custom white balance but with the canon eos r you're just
going to take a photo of your subject holding up a white card
or just a white piece of paper and after you take that photo you're
going to go into the menu settings and choose the white balance settings
and then just click on custom white balance and then choose
the last photo that you took and what this will do it'll calibrate
the color temperature to the white card in the colors
of that photo that you took and this will achieve the best results
i will do some shots showing you what the video will look like
if i used auto white balance compared to the custom white balance or let's say
you're accidentally white balancing using the cloudy mode
and then you need to fix it in post-production and i'll show you how to
do that in the third step of this video but for
now let's talk about picture profile
so this next step on picture profiles is completely
optional but it's good to keep in mind when you're filming
when you want to achieve the best skin tones you want to make sure that you're
not in some special effects picture profile
such as one of the tinted ones because that will mess with the color
temperature but let's say you've never even turned on a picture profile before
another thing you can think about doing is choosing
the log format which gives you more dynamic range to color grade with and i
love shooting in the canon log because i'm able to adjust the
highlights and the darker tones in my image much better now it is a
little bit more work and you don't have to turn on log
but once you go log i like to say that it's hard to go back to shooting just
standard because you just have a lot more flexibility
and it'll look kind of more milky at first and that's okay because you
actually need to color grade and i made a whole tutorial
on how to color grade log so it looks a lot
better and inside of the menu settings when you're turning on the log you can
actually turn on the view assist and that way when you're looking at the
screen on the canon it'll show you what the final image will look like
after you color grade and so that is picture profiles
definitely explore log the next step is post-production
all right so here in my timeline i have four different clips that were shot
in four different types of white balances so here is the correct
custom white balance that we shot in the canon log
here is the auto white balance shot here's the white fluorescent white
balance which is really off as you can see
and here is the cloudy white balance as you can see it looks a little bit better
but it's still off so what i'm going to do first is
show you how to adjust the exposure of the log footage
here so that way it's in the correct exposure level the
first thing you need to do is adjust the brightness
and contrast of the shot and i like to use lumetri colors
curves so this is where i go over and use the scopes
and right now it's in the vector scope which we will get to with the skin tone
line but let's pull up the luma waveform
which displays the brightness now in order to get this shot correctly
exposed we need to bring up this waveform as close to 100
and as low to zero for more contrast so to control the top of the waveform
we're going to go over to this white line over here and just bring this
up closer to around 100 and already it's
looking good if you bring it too far over to the left it's going to get
clipped and overexposed so right around here is fine and then
same with the bottom of this curve we're going to bring this over
to the bottom closer to zero and already if we turn
this on and off you can see a huge difference so
we can go ahead and say good to go with the exposure
let's go ahead and let's turn off the luma waveform
and now what we can do is see over here this is
the display of all the colors in this vector scope
this is the vectorscope yuv now this outer line here this just means
that this is the broadcast standard and because we're not using this for
television we don't have to worry about the saturation levels and it looks like
it's right on the edge so it's fine for this magenta to be out there
but in terms of the skin tone we want to isolate just a patch of my skin so we
can see if the skin tones are correct so to
isolate just the skin we're going to go to effects
and let's click on the ellipsis mask underneath opacity
and then we're just going to isolate just a patch of
skin here and let's zoom in to around 400 percent
and this is just checking to make sure that this custom white balance was doing
a good job with our skin tones so now when we go to lumetri color you
can see it just isolated the color just to the skin tone
line you can see if i move this it starts to
include more color in the background but as we isolate just the skin it'll
show us just the skin tones so you can see here
it actually did a really good job we want the color to be exactly on the
skin tone line or the skin tone indicator
now if we really wanted to go in and make some adjustments and bring some of
the red to be tighter in this line this is
where we can use the hue saturation curves
so if we go to hue versus hue which allows you to change the color
of an existing color so here we can then select just the reds since we want to
bring the reds in tighter so we can actually create our own dots here right
when the red color begins create a dot and right when the red ends let's say
around here click and then let's make a center dot
between and now we can adjust this color to be anywhere in the
spectrum so if we bring this down see how it brings in those red colors
tighter to the line for if we bring it too much though you
can see it gets way too yellow if we bring it up it'll
start to get over to magenta but now you can really see how by
controlling this line it allows you to control this
angle so if i bring this down just a little bit closer you can see we can
bring it closer to the line and it's almost perfect
but if we move this mask you can start to see
the lips change a little bit so we want to be careful not to change my lip color
too much so let's go ahead and just bring this up
a little bit so we still have some of the pink in my
lips displayed so already this is a great skin tone
it's really difficult to see the before and after here
because the human eye can only see so much
but using these tools you can really make a great skin tone line and canon
already has great color so you can see here the skin
tone is great so let's go ahead and let's
go back to the effect controls and let's turn off this mask
and we can see this almost fully graded perfect shot here of
the skin tone looking great if we turn off lumetri
color this is the before with the log before graded and this is the after if
you want to see really bad skin tones we can go to the white fluorescent here
which was really poorly white balanced it wasn't white balanced
at all so when we go in to create a mask here and let's go to
lumetri scopes and we just isolate the skin you will
see that it's more in the magenta color it's
not on the skin tone line indicator so that is way off and that is difficult
to fix so this is showing poor skin tones because we didn't white
balance now we can also check out the auto
white balance here so this auto white balance skin tone
is actually still pretty good so what we can do is go to effect controls and we
can isolate the skin tone again let's just
go to a little patch here of skin
and let's go to metric scopes and you can see
it's did a pretty good job we can go to 400 percent and we can make some
adjustments here
and already it's pretty good you can see the skin tone is
is okay so we don't need to do too much there
but let me turn off the mask and you can see
side-by-side comparison if we turn on comparison view
between this canon log shot on the left which was custom white balanced and the
standard shot with auto white balance now you can see
here there's a little bit more detail in my face you can see that the
the white balance is pretty good on the canon the auto
white balance on the right and on the left is the custom white
balance but the reason why i like the left
more is because i have more detail in my face because i
shot in the log i was able to control the exposure
but on the right you can see that the exposure is good but
there's a little bit less detail in the highlights
so this is why i love shooting in the log another thing that i can just
quickly show you if i turn off comparison view and go to
lumetri scopes and go back to the luma waveform here
you can see that the brightness level is good
in this auto wipe balance shot like there's nothing that's overexposed here
so nothing is really wrong at all but if i go over here into the log shot
you can see the waveform looks a little a little bit different because
we have more detail and we're able to control the brightness
using this brightness curve so this is a lot to throw in here in the
premiere pro section but i just really wanted to show
how much better it is to shoot log and how much better it is for the skin tones
to shoot custom white balance so definitely continue using those
tips and if you have any questions be sure to leave a comment below
and that brings me to this week's comment of the week
rick gates wrote hey kelsey great stuff you really know where the crucial
parameters are for each of these templates
do they usually come with some sort of guide that indicates where the
customizations need to be made so thank you rick for
this question this was left on my logo reveal template editing video
where i showed you how to edit templates from
envato elements so these logo templates they all have what is usually
called a master style layer so you select that style
layer and then you go up to effect controls
and this will allow you to change sort of thematic overall master style
such as the colors of the different elements in the
template and it makes it really easy to kind of customize
that template so definitely check out that video if you have any questions
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that's it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed it and
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