skin tones and color

[JW22]

Can someone look at this photo and tell me if the skin tones look to red? I've been trying to correct the colors, tint ect in ACR but I find the colors flat - when I saturate the colors I find the skin tones too red. What else can I try?

[300Dplus]

Only you know what the real skin tone is, but in my calibrated monitor looks very good. Even the dog's tongue looks natural pink. You could up the contrast a tad for a little more pop but being careful not to blow up the details on the dog's hair.

[tim]

Looks fine to me too, maybe could use a bit more red. My monitor's calibrated. In ACR choose the third tab and change it to strong contrast, I like that better than the contrast slider, sometimes use both tho.

[NoLight]

Color is good!!!! More contrast would help I think!!!

[maderito]

The image is slightly overexposed and lacks density. The skin tones are more typical of Caucasian baby's skin with magenta ~ yellow. Thus its overly red appearance when you increase saturation. Adult skin tones would have yellow > magenta.

If you are working in Photoshop (work on a copy of original):
1. Add density: make a layer copy, set blending mode to "multiply", reduce opacity (~50%) and merge layer.
2. Adjust hues: make Hue/Sat adjustment layer, edit "Reds" and shift "hue" slider to right (about +2 to +4) to make reds more yellow.
3. Adjust overall satuation: on same H/S layer, edit "Master" and increase "saturation" slider to taste (+0 to +10).

For this lovely individual, the face should have hints of pink framed by honey-yellow blond hair - IMO.

I'm assuming this image is in sRGB color space, and so I assigned the sRGB profile. If it's an Adobe RGB image, the approach would be different.

The final result with slight sharpening:

[JW22]

That makes me feel better, I will try to add a little more contrast tonite. Thanks a lot.

[JW22]

The image is an adobe RBG image! I'm going to play with it again. I printed it and I find the face still a little too pink.

[Reefbone]

The image is slightly overexposed and lacks density. The skin tones are more typical of Caucasian baby's skin with magenta ~ yellow. Thus its overly red appearance when you increase saturation. Adult skin tones would have.......

I thought the original Image was ok but then I saw your edit... I was really impressed. I think you did a bang up job. Talented PP there.

[tim]

I like somewhere between the original and the edit... if I had to choose one i'd take the original.