wiffie Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 How do you fix washed out skin tones? My flash washed out the faces on my pictures and I would like to fix the skin tone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Try curves: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/Curves.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiffie Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 Thanks, I tryed that and the faces are still very washed out, white looking. the clothes have nice color and so does everything else. Just the faces are washed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Are they skin colour but lighter or white with no hint of skin colour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiffie Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 skin color is white with a little red but not as white as a shirt there is some but very little color Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiffie Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 I hhope picture comes through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 It may be possible with the man on the right but I don't think the others can be fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oma Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 adjust the levels input and output then highlight and shadow recovery. its about as best as I can go, in a quick one pass adjustment. how important is it ? you could always cut out each person for separate layer and do the levels input /output and hightlight and shadow recovery different settings each person. You know their true skin hues better than we do. I seem to think the fellow on the far right looks fine in original, when I did this I did it all one layer so now he looks a tad reddish. If you decide to do a bang up job on it I'd cut out the background completely that overhead light in the background and the ceiling beams are really distracting. ciao Quote  My Deviant Art Gallery Oma's Paint.Net gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bEPIK Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 You can't get back colour information that isn't there. To me it looks like parts of the photo are 100% white. You cannot easily fix that picture. Best way to fix this (for future pictures) is to fix your camera. Pictures taken by cameras overexpose (go bright white) easier than the go completely black. So set you camera so that it takes pictures darker than you would want and then touch up the photo in paint.net. Quote Water, Wood and Hair Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
survulus Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 That's why I never use flash, it makes the picture too white, and white data is pretty much irretrivable. Instead I adjust the ISO setting, whilst that adds more noise that can be smoothed out easier in post-production. Also the aperture could be adjusted, and if you have a steady enough hand you could reduce the shutter speed. Depends how good your camera is. Hope that helps for future photos, as for that one, all I could suggest is curves, like people have said before. Quote Check out all my newest stuff on my dA Â I iz bassist here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiffie Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 Thanks for your help, it is my son's awards banquit, State Champs footballl, Had a problem with my camra and the lighting in the place, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someone93 Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 adjust the levels input and output then highlight and shadow recovery. its about as best as I can go, in a quick one pass adjustment. how important is it ? you could always cut out each person for separate layer and do the levels input /output and hightlight and shadow recovery different settings each person. You know their true skin hues better than we do. I seem to think the fellow on the far right looks fine in original, when I did this I did it all one layer so now he looks a tad reddish. If you decide to do a bang up job on it I'd cut out the background completely that overhead light in the background and the ceiling beams are really distracting. ciao Agreed with oma's solution except that I should use "auto-level" then a bit of the "basic adjustments" before "shadow/highlight" (oma's edit is a bit dark in the corners edges, this method makes them keep their color/brightness). Plus selecting the skin of each separatly, copy and paste each part in a new layer. Set the blending mode to multiply and play around with the opacity until satisfied. And maybe some smaller pixel editing. Sorry if this is a bit late but... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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