Getting good skin color in Lightroom 2.1

I've noticed that Adobe Elements 7 and Capture One Pro 4 both have good skin color correction tools. Also Photoshop has several good plugins to correct skin color. Are there any equivalent tools in Lightroom (i.e. presets) to avoid having to go into Photoshop to make skin color corrections? Sometimes even a good white-balance does not translate into good skin color.

Are you having problems with rendering skin tones from within Lightroom, or are you having problems with color rendering in Lightroom in general? I have been experimenting with Adobe's DNG Profile Editor (see this thread: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=602420 ) to try to get better color rendering out of Lightroom. This approach is not skin-tone specific, but, in my initial experiments, has yielded much better scene-specific color rendering.

I have not used any skin tone correction plug-ins so I am not sure how they might give you better skin tones in a particular context. It sounds like your skin tone issues are somewhat subjective (maybe?) and that the plug-ins, etc. give a more pleasing tone (warmer, or whatever) versus a more accurate representation (maybe not?).

In any event, in my limited experiments with the DNG Profile Editor, I have been impressed with the improvement in color rendering from within Lrightroom when developing and employing a custom recipe scene-referenced color profile. This approach may give you a better starting point for developing or deploying presets, etc. from within Lightroom to get the look you are after.

hope this helps,

Kirk