Red Skin Tones HELP!

Ok, so after reading a million reports on amazing tones, in particular skin tones, on the capture one RAW engine, Ive decided to give the trial version a go (Coming from Lightroom). I have just imported a bunch of travel shots I recently took, and am at a loss. The skin tones and any similar tones in general, are saturated with reds??? The images look aweful. There are some shots, particularly landscape shots with AMAZING tones, especially the blue in the sky etc, but the people shots are just horrid. Im about to ditch this foray and go back to lightroom, but Im assuming theres something Im missing, or some kind of callibration I maybe need to setup? I have messed around with the skin tones section in the colour panel, and mucked about with some simple white balance tweaks, but it just seems I have to make drastic changes to my colour levels etc just to get the images to come out "neutral", which just cant be right? Would greatly appreciate any help ASAP. Please see below for a sample pic, thats the difference from a straight import, NO adjustments in either package.

PS: Shooting with a Nikon D7000.

Regards,

Jeroth

http://i61.tinypic.com/6sbf47.jpg

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5. Oktober 2014 06:29

PS: When I go into the Skin Tone drop down lists under the "White Balance Panel" -> "Skintone Tab", no matter what option I choose (Beige - Light, Honey - Deep etc etc) the skin tones/tones of the image do not change. Is there something Im missing on how to apply these different skin tone presets???

Gaaaah, really not a good first experience with this software, please someone reinstate my enthusiasm to keep giving this a go.

Marcin Pazio

5. Oktober 2014 20:40

"PS: When I go into the Skin Tone drop down lists under the "White Balance Panel" -> "Skintone Tab", no matter what option I choose (Beige - Light, Honey - Deep etc etc) the skin tones/tones of the image do not change."

I think, that You did not get, how this feature works.,
Skintone in WB section can be used to copy color tone (not only skin, but almost any other color) from one shot to another. So, You have to chose one color from list of presets (or define one by Yourself), then point with eyedropper the point, that should "get" the color of the preset.

Christian Gruner

6. Oktober 2014 07:23

Hi,

You have a quite an underexposed shot. Try to compensate the exposure with the Exposure slider. Then you will see red getting a little less. Next up is setting the Whitebalance. That will get you very far.

If that is not enough, you can use the Color Editor with its Advanced Color Editor and Skintone Tool.

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