How do you get perfect skin with DaVinci Resolve?

How do you get perfect skin with DaVinci Resolve?

In this Topics I'm going to show you an advanced way to do skin retouching inside resolve that is driven by resolves ai through their neural engine okay so back in the day what would happen is you know you want to remove these bags like the actor comes to you and goes hey can you um I was having a bad day can you

Try to remove uh the eye bags under my eyes and can you smooth out my skin okay so that is something that a colorist would handle so in the past what you would do is you would go under here under windows you would create windows track them individually so let's say we make two windows for the eyes we create a window for the forehead to smooth it out and then all these

Blemishes we create like little windows and then treat them individually okay that takes hours it is not practical when you're working on any project you know when it comes to color grading everything is super tight so you got to get it done with efficiency with the best results that you can achieve okay with the time given so instead this is what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go under effects I'm gonna type in face refinement

I'm gonna drop that on and at first nothing happens so when you drop it on you're like dude nothing happened um what's going on so this is what you got to do you got to click on analyze and look at how smart this is okay so when we hit analyze it recognizes the face the eyes and each element on the face and now it's going to track forward and then it's gonna

Track backward okay so one click and it just takes care of everything okay so now that we're done with this and it did an outstanding job if we need to fine-tune anything you're gonna do that in here okay adjust skin model or face mask size and you can make those micro-adjustments here we don't need to do any of that so I'm going to hide this and I'm also going to click on show overlay so we don't have to

See the overlay right like check that off now the operating mode I like to select advanced beauty advance and don't get afraid of like the word advanced I'm just going to take you through it that's not a big deal and like we said the actor asked for hey can you do a quick touch up and uh remove the eye bags and just even

Out my skin, so that's what we were asked to do you have to be respectful okay we don't want to overdo anything we don't want to like give her a plastic surgery she has beautiful skin so we're not going to do anything unnatural but for the sake of this example I will exaggerate just a tiny bit so it comes through on youtube and you can see what's happening here okay so the

The objective is simple so let's start with eye bags, okay so I'm gonna go under-eye retouching and look how beautifully everything is broken down and since the mask was just like such a success it just latched on to everything using ai we don't have to manually create any of that like before like I said you would have to track all of these individually and create power windows so then under here what I do is

I take my eye bag removal and I start cranking it and look what happens so before and after look how good of a job it's doing okay now the next thing that we can do is under brightening let's pull out her eyes a little bit so go too far obviously and then pull it back until it just looks realistic this looks good we still get to see a little bit of you know green eyes that we weren't able to before

The next thing that I want to do is under the forehead I want to smooth out her forehead a little bit, okay so I'm just going to start cranking it too much and then pull it back and then go somewhere around here what else do we want to work on the cheeks a little bit mostly gives us hue and saturation we don't necessarily need to maybe a little bit just like that to give

It's a little bit more life, in that case, we can do the same thing to the forehead give it a little bit more lifelike this right, and now I'm pretty close to being done now all I need to do is under my diffused lightning lighting this is where the magic is going to happen so watch this I'm going to click on this slider and I'm going to crank it and look what it

Does now like I said I'm going to kind of push it so you guys can like really see it online but you don't have to overdo it if you don't want to smooth the threshold let's see what it does so if I go to the left it like basically does nothing if I go to the right it just does too much so I'm gonna uncheck it and leave it where it is

Now the great thing about adding texture is let's say we've gone too far so this is before this is after we've gone too far and we want to bring some of that texture back add texture is that tool if I go in here and if I start cranking that you see what it's doing so it's bringing some of that texture back doing it in a very natural way okay so

Now if I keep moving it around look at if we go to our hero frame this is where we started and then this is where we ended up huge difference okay um we can also use our eye light a little bit and that's also going to even out the circles under her eyes and at this point what else can we do I'm gonna take my recovery amount and it doesn't do much like I mean it

Just feathering everything out a little bit more and there you have it like look everything latches on okay nothing is gonna break and like look the amount of work that we did just by moving some sliders and letting resolves ai do the heavy lifting for us it is incredible this is something two years ago was unheard of nobody thought

That it would happen or it would work this well now a couple of caveats when you're using this if you have two characters on screen or if your subject is kind of far away it might not work as well if your subject is you know if you're seeing the profile of your subject you have to make a lot of adjustments to make this work so it works much better with close-ups and guys I want to tell you if