User manual DIGITAL ANARCHY BEAUTY BOX

[. . . ] Easily smooth skintones in video footage. BEFORE AFTER Beauty Box for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro [ from: Digital Anarchy] revolutionary tools for photo & video www. digitalanarchy. com Beauty Box: Table of Contents Introduction to Beauty Box 1 1 1 2 2 Overview of Interface Analyze Group Simple automatic workflow. Auto-mask results vs Hand Masking Selling Beauty Box to Clients Skin Smoothing Controls Analyze Frame button How It Works About Beauty Box keyframes Choosing the frame to analyze When to re-click Analyze Keyframes popup Linear Bezier Hold Analyze All button When to use Analyze All Problem with Analyze All Example #1 Example #2 Face Detection Face option Eye option Error message: `Face detection has failed' Tips about choosing a different frame No error message in Analyze All How It Works Resolution and Smoothing Smoothing Amount Smoothing Example #1 Mask affects Smoothing Amount Smoothing Radius Image Contrast & Smoothing Smoothing Example #2 3 4 14 14 14 14 15 16 17 17 17 4 4 6 6 7 8 8 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 12 12 12 13 13 13 © 2010, Digital Anarchy : revolutionary tools for photo & video | Beauty Box: Auto Skin Retouching Beauty Box: Table of Contents Skin Detail Amount More Detail = Less Smoothing Smoothing Radius with Skin Detail Smoothing Example #3 Info Only> Bounds 1, Bounds 2 How It Works Why use Mask controls?Show Mask popup Show Mask> Off Show Mask> Quick Show Mask> On Using Quick vs On Alternate Use of Show Mask Quickstart for the custom mask Mode popup Mode> Off Mode> Set Mode> Foreground Dark Color, Light Color Look at Mode through Mask view About the Falloff Controls Hue Falloff Saturation Falloff Value Falloff Mask Input popup NOTE: Set Mask Channel to Luminance Path popup Black and white areas NOTE: Set Timeline Mask mode to None Feather Invert checkbox Sharpen> Use Mask checkbox Sharpen> Amount Preserve>Preserve Edges Preserve> Preserve Grain 19 19 19 19 19 21 21 21 21 22 22 23 23 23 24 24 24 25 25 26 27 27 28 28 29 29 30 30 30 31 32 33 33 34 34 Mask Group 21 Fine Detail Controls 33 © 2010, Digital Anarchy : revolutionary tools for photo & video | Beauty Box: Auto Skin Retouching Beauty Box: Introduction Introduction to Beauty Box Welcome to Beauty Box, the next generation in skin retouching software!By using advanced techniques like face detection, we can automatically identify skin tones, making the process of skin retouching easier than ever. [. . . ] The amount of smoothing will be reduced in areas that aren't 100% white, which means the Amount acts as a maximum amount. Where the mask is 100% white, the Amount will be exactly as you set it. Where the mask is less than 100% white, the actual amount of smoothing applied will be less than what's shown in the Amount value. For example, if the area is 50% gray, the amount of smoothing will be 50% of the Smoothing Amount value. Below, we are viewing the Beauty Box mask with the Show Mask> On option. The main skin surface around the eyes, cheeks, chin, nose and forehead are white, and 100% white gets 100% smoothing treatment. Notice that as the Smooth settings are raised higher, the area around the eyes gets darker, which reduces the amount of smoothing. Beauty Box, good settings Beauty Box, high settings 16 © 2010, Digital Anarchy : revolutionary tools for photo & video | Beauty Box: Auto Skin Retouching Beauty Box: Smoothing Controls Smoothing Radius Smoothing Radius controls the amount of smoothing on large skin features. Radius will smooth over large regions, so when you crank this value up, you really lower the image contrast. This may work out okay for some images, but for most shots, it's not going to give you the ideal look. Image Contrast & Smoothing Smoothing Radius ­ and skin smoothing in general ­ tends to reduce the contrast of the image. It's important to keep that in mind when you're adjusting the settings. For instance, highlights caused by a flash or strobe can be too bright, and reducing the shine on the skin is beneficial. The benefits of using Smooth Radius will depend on factors like the look you're going for, and how the image was shot in the first place. Smoothing Example #2 On the next page, our footage is very high resolution image at 3400x2700 pixels. Increasing the Smoothing Radius causes the Smoothing Amount to smooth over a larger area. If you have someone with a lot of freckles or blotchy skin, increasing Smoothing Radius is one way to deal with it. The model's freckles just turn blotchy at low Smoothing Radius settings. However, if Radius is set too high, then the image loses a LOT of contrast. This is the downside to Smoothing Radius; the more you increase it, the more contrast you lose. At high settings, the face will almost look totally flat, which is usually not a good look. In our example, the `Good Settings' version finds a nice balance in which the setting looks smooth, getting rid of the blotchy look, but we still have good contrast. It helps that this image doesn't have a great deal of contrast to begin with. You can see the difference between the Good and High settings if you look around the eyes, nose, and mouth. 17 © 2010, Digital Anarchy : revolutionary tools for photo & video | Beauty Box: Auto Skin Retouching Beauty Box: Smoothing Controls Smoothing Example #2, continued Original Beauty Box, good settings Please zoom in to view the results. Beauty Box, low settings Beauty Box, high settings 18 © 2010, Digital Anarchy : revolutionary tools for photo & video | Beauty Box: Auto Skin Retouching Beauty Box: Smoothing Controls Skin Detail Amount Skin Detail reveals the texture and detail in the skin. If you'd like more texture in the skin, then increase Skin Detail up to around 30-40. [. . . ] If the path is not feathered, frequently a `seam' can be seen where the mask edge is. The downside of using Feather is that the Beauty Box effect may appear to fade off where the feathering starts. Usually this is not a noticeable ommission, but it can be. 31 Feather of 40. © 2010, Digital Anarchy : revolutionary tools for photo & video | Beauty Box: Auto Skin Retouching Beauty Box: Mask Group Invert checkbox Normally, the image is only affected in the region that is inside the Beauty Box mask. The image is affected in the area that would normally be considered `outside' the mask, while the inside area is not affected. [. . . ]