Telling the Story - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 356

to garbage matte the skin tone and eliminate the punching bag, which is
also a skin-tone color.
With the skin tone qualified, Pepperman starts to tweak. “I'm actually
trying to eliminate the red in his skin tones without affecting the high-
lighted areas of the smoke. As opposed to doing an overall correction, I'm
trying to see if I can grab that skin tone without affecting anything else
and just desaturate it. I liked where I was overall, I just wanted to desatu-
rate his skin tone a tiny bit. So I really like what I've done here ( Figure
8.51 ). I like this feeling of 'It's hot. It's warm. He's sweating.' And that's
where I really wanted to be.”
Fig. 8.51 This secondary is a slight desaturation of the skin tones.
Fig. 8.52 Data from the second secondary.