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These controls are identical to the Advanced controls of the Beauty plugin, covered previously in this chapter.
Color Grading
These controls let you make color adjustments to the overall face.
— Contrast: This slider lets you lighten the face in a natural way by keeping the shadows dark even while you brighten the face, making it easy to bring actors out of the background.
— Midtone: Lets you add a more luminous quality to the skin tone.
— Color boost: Specifically boosts saturation in the lowest saturated parts of the face.
— Tint: Provides a limited range of naturalistic hues emphasizing orange through red (but extending to green and magenta) with which to tweak complexion.
— Desaturate shadow: This slider lets you selectively desaturate the darkest shadows on the face to keep things looking natural, or to desaturate more aggressively in order to stylize the face in a different way. Also useful when using the other adjustments of this plugin makes the shadows too colorful. Moving this slider into negative values will add saturation.
— Shine Removal: This slider is an inverse contrast adjustment designed to ameliorate sweat and shine on a person’s face, although moving this slider into negative values will also accentuate shine.
Eye Retouching
These controls target just the eyes and surrounding area of the face.
— Sharpening: This slider lets you selectively add sharpening just to the eyes and eyelashes, which lets you instantly add focus to any performer.
— Brightening: This slider lets you whiten the eyeballs.
— Eye Light: This slider lets you brighten the region of the face around the eyes that’s often thrown into shadow by the subject’s forehead in situations with imprudent lighting.
— Eyebag Removal: This slider uses a variety of techniques to smooth, color-adjust, and brighten the area under the eyes most susceptible to eye bags with tired talent.
(Left) Eyes with no special adjustment, (Right) Eyes with adjustment
Lip Retouching
These controls target just the lips and surrounding area of the mouth.
— Hue: This slider lets you adjust the color of a subject’s lips or lipstick.