Bigger challenge

[ggroess]

Ok,
While there certainly many things that can be corrected with this image, I want you to focus on the green color cast on the shadow parts of the face.

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Warning,no CM corrections applied to this image.I wanted to create a simple baseline before using the CM tools.GregM
I used a red photo filter adjustment layer set to 22 and luminosity unchecked,a bit of healing brush and sharpening.
More of a corrected snapshot than a portrait.

[mikemeister_admin]

CM adjustments.The neutral on the tee shirt pulled the tones together.Put a bit more white in the eyes,only the sclera.GregM

[ggroess]

There appears to be a tinge of the green still in there...  like a halo around her face...otherwise a solid correction.

The image attached was processed in Portrait Professional 9 then color corrected in Curvemeister. The Tee Shirt, and Skin tones were set using the CM plug in

The Mask shown was created in CM using the Skin Mask from the Palette, I then adjusted the Green channel to remove the halo...

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Here is my effort on this one Greg, although I mostly used CM to improve contrast and raise up the midtones.

Brian

[mikemeister_admin]

Could you explain how you create a skin mask from the Palette please Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Here is my take on her - thought she needed bring out of the bushes!
If I have managed to get rid of the green tinge, it was in cm rgb with a very slight change in the green channel
After that move I had a bit of fun

[ggroess]

Could you explain how you create a skin mask from the Palette please Greg

If you open the image in CM, go to the mask pallet.  
Select the skin mask.  Invert the slope of the curve.  Shot1
Then copy the mask out to a layer in PS.

Paint out the white areas you do not want to have with a soft wide brush.  Shot2
Use this mask layer to go back into CM and adjust only the green channel.

Start by opening CM on the mask layer in RGB, Select the Green Channel, using the mouse find an area on the face with the green tint.  Shot3
Right click and select "mark".  Isolate the mark on the curve by adding control points above and below the "mark".  Shot 4
Adjust the curve until you are satisfied with the skin tones under the mask. Shot5

Give it a try.  Part of the key is being able to pre-visualize the mask you are looking for and finding a way to get it.  Sometimes it is a very tricky position but if you think about the image a bit the answer usually comes to you.. The thought process for this image was...


I have green mixed into the skin...If I use the skin mask... the skin is left open to changes.  Green is not a normal skin color so the mask will be black or gray in the areas where the green "lives".  I can make those areas white using an inverted curve.  The inverted curve will work but all of the non-skin areas will be open with the inverted curve.  I will need to paint those areas out...and make subtle changes to the green...subtle = RGB. 


As you can see the process defines itself...I did this as one of the last steps of the correction.  My thoughts were after "everything else is corrected I still need to get rid of the green.  Other adjustments might get rid of it first so I'll wait and see what happens."  When I reached the endpoint of my normal correction process the green was still there.  As I corrected this image I thought of how much Zog and GregM would love to see this one...and "Poof" a challenge is born...

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Thank you Greg - although it took me sometime to find out how to copy the mask back into PS! - "Copy mask" doesn't hit anything in the help.
Funnily enough your green channel curve is almost the same as mine, but I didn't use a mask.

I wondered if this rendition is a little better for her and makes the image a bit more interesting?

[ggroess]

Interesting Color...but there is still some green on the left side of her face...

The Copy command is the little copy Icon in CM. 
Middle Icon in the attached shot

Greg