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Hey what's up video editors?! It's Premiere Gal here and in this video I'm going to
teach you how to use the Beauty Studio plugin in Adobe Premiere Pro to add
natural touch-ups to faces or as I like to call it digital makeup the Beauty
Studio plugin is part of Continuum by BorisFX in fact it's only one part
of Continuum's image restoration suite there are tons of other effects from 3d
titles, green-screen keying, film looks and more. now I've already done a couple
tutorials on BorisFX plugins and I've included a link to the playlist in
my description box below. So you should definitely check it out if you want to
learn more about the power of these plugins so anyway back to beauty studio
it is used by tons of professional and commercial video editors to touch up the
skin of actors and actresses in moving images so if you're ever watching a film
or commercial and you're like how is this person so flawless well it's most
likely that they are not and a lot of video retouching can be done through
Continuum's beauty studio in this tutorial I'll be using a video of myself
for demo purposes now the goal here for me is just to teach you how to add some
natural smoothing to your subjects not to make it look too fake just enough to
enhance the subjects natural beauty so I'll be covering two steps in this
tutorial first I'll show you how to rebuild your digital makeup mask and
track it so it stays on the face if your subject is moving and then secondly I'll
show you how to adjust the mask smoothing sharpening and color
correction as well as the glow. And to make it easy for you to follow along in
my description box below you can find a time coded breakdown of everything I
cover in this tutorial and you can also download my sample demo clip to follow
along as well as download the trial version of continuum so here in Premiere
Pro go to effects and search for BCC Beauty Studio and drag and drop it onto
the clip in the timeline you can already see that it applied way too much
smoothing to my face let me zoom in on my face a bit from the program panel and
now I'll turn the effect off and on from the effects controls and you can see the
difference already you can also change the view mode
so you can see a side-by-side difference or a compare mode where it draws a line
down the middle and you can use the wipe effect to move the line to see the
before on the left and after on the right so the problem here you can see on
the right side is that it's also smoothing my hair my eyes my lips and
the background we want it to only smooth my skin so to update this we need to
manually change the mat parameters starting with selecting my natural skin
tone colors first let's just turn off compare and also disable this beauty
studio effect temporarily because we want to be able to select the original
skin tones without the smoothing effect on next turn on pixel chooser then
underneath mocha matte we are going to use the eyedropper tool for color a to
pick a darker area of my skin and then choose color be the lightest area of my
skin this will be my skin tone range now let's turn the effect back on and then
select view mask and boom it looks a little scary at first but basically the
white area here is the area that Beauty studio is affecting and the black area
is protected and it will not affect that area so we want to try and make all the
skin to be all white in the rest black this includes making the eyes more black
and the lips more black because we want those to be in focus not softened so to
do this I need to adjust the hue softness saturation softness luma
softness and the clip white parameters the parameters here will be different
for every face that you're working with because the lighting is different the
person looks different so I played around with these parameters for about
15 minutes or so until I got it to be correct so what I did was reduce the
softness to around 12 I reduced the saturation softness to 6 I reduced the
luma softness to around 18 and this added in some more black to my face so I
had to go into the clip white and clip that more so I can get rid of some of
the black that came in when I reduce the saturation and softness
now don't worry too much about the shirt and the hat getting completely black as
we will mask that with mocha Pro now you can see that my
eyebrow on the left and on the right are completely gone I can bring the one back
in on the left using a mocha Pro mask the other eyebrow is pretty much covered
by the shade of my hat so that's okay so to create a mocha mask around my face to
mask out the rest of the image from being affected click on the mocha logo
then I'm going to use the x-plane tool to draw a mask around my entire face and
my upper chest where my skin is exposed then I'm going to track forwards and
back and once it's done tracking you'll see that the mask moves with the
movement of my chest and face I'm going to draw a mask on the right side of my
braid as well because there's some skin exposed there then rather than having to
retrack this mask I'm just going to link this new mask to the tracking layer from
the first layer next I'm just going to zoom in on my eyebrow and draw a mask
with the x-plane tool around that and now under blend mode I'm going to select
subtract and this will subtract it and make that portion black not affected by
the mask and I'm also going to link it to the first track layer so that way the
tracking is applied to it as well and now we're just going to hit file save
and close out of mocha Pro then the next step is to adjust the smoothing detail
to make it look more natural up at the top I'm going to reduce the master
amount to around 65 to make it more natural and you'll see there are also
detail levels all this is doing is letting you control the size of the
details you want to smooth so for example the smooth smallest details
controls the small pores and the large details would be larger freckles so 4 is
the default and it works well so to move on I'm going to reduce the smallest to
around 70 the small details to 60 and then medium to 60 and the large to 60
this is all to make it a little bit more natural next we're going to sharpen it
to bring in some more natural sharpening that we lost so we can turn that on and
also turn on use masks because we want to sharpen the mask area this lets us
bring in some detail we lost while also maintaining our digital makeup mask so
I'll sharpen it at fifteen you can also play around with it
until it looks okay for the image you're working with next is color correction
and just like sharpen also turn on use mask in here I'll increase the
saturation to about five just to bring in some more color if you increase it
too much let's say to 20 you will see that it looks like I had a bad tanning
accident and we don't want that so let's bring it back down to five we can also
add in some brightness again we want to be subtle not too much because then it
will look fake and bad then glow adds in a natural glow also turn on the mask and
I'm going to set the glow intensity to about ten and you can also change the
color of the glow if you want to give more of a plushy glow you can change it
to like a light rose color now let's go back up and change the compare mode to
side by side and you can see the difference between before and after you
can see how it just very naturally enhanced my skin tone and overall just
making me look like I caught some more sleep but use this retouch tool to
carefully and make sure you're not overdoing it so that's all I have today
if you want more video tutorials that explore Continuum's capabilities such as
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