Cosmetics/Skin Retouching (23 Tutorials)

Chromatic Tutorial: Isolate & Grade Skin Tones in FCPX
February 19, 2019
In this tutorial, learn how to isolate and grade skin tones without changing the background with Coremelt’s Chromatic for Final Cut Pro X.

Skin Retouching in Adobe Premiere Pro
March 26, 2018
Premiere Gal shows you how to do a bit of Skin Retouching in Premiere Pro. Retouch and smooth skin in Adobe Premiere Pro with Continuum Beauty Studio.

DaVinci Resolve: Face Refinement Plug-in
March 6, 2018
The Face Refinement tool in DaVinci Resolve Studio is a digital make-up tool that allows colorists and editors to retouch complexions, modify lip or cheek color, and much more. Learn how easy and powerful this hidden gem is with this tutorial from Lewis McGragor at Premium Beat.

Fusion: Remove Wrinkles Using the Planar Tracker
January 9, 2018
In this Fusion 9 Studio tutorial, VFX artist Sander de Regt show you how to remove wrinkles using the new planar tracker.

BCC Beauty Studio: In-Depth Digital Retouching
November 21, 2017
In this tutorial, UK-based colorist and trainer Dan Harvey explains the ins-and-outs of the BCC Beauty Studio skin smoothing and retouching filter. with Beauty Studio, quickly reduce blemishes, wrinkles, and imperfections to make your talent look better.

Boris Continuum BCC Beauty Studio Digital Retouching
August 15, 2017
Boris Continuum BCC Beauty Studio is here. With HD and so much high res video, every pore on your actor now shows. Beauty Studio all-in-one digital makeup filter for giving your actors a bit of touching up during post-production.

In Depth: Brilliant (and Possibly Dangerous) Future Video and Audio Technologies
August 7, 2017
When I was a kid, I’d watch Star Trek and The Jetsons and be in awe of the ability to teleport or fly around with a jetpack or flying car. While those technologies have been tough to bring to reality, some of the technologies for film, video, and audio are just on the horizon or already in existence. This technology will help filmmakers fix botched lines, avoid retakes, make actors look younger, and even bring an actor back to life who died during filming. We’re going to cover a lot of cool technology in this article, technology that also has high potential to have ethical issues attached to it if it becomes available to consumers.

Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite Tutorial Roundup
July 18, 2017
Get up and running quickly with all the products in the Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite, when you watch this batch of Quickstart Guides from director Stu Maschwitz.

Digital Anarchy Samurai & Beauty Box: Sharpen Eyes and Smooth Skin
February 14, 2017
In this tutorial we use Samurai Sharpen and Beauty Box together to both sharpen and smooth video footage. Often with beauty work you want to sharpen areas like eyes and hair but smooth out skin areas which can show too much detail with HD and 4K. Here we show you how to deal with both problems!

Digital Makeup and Anti-Aging Techniques with Boris FX, mocha and After Effects
July 5, 2016
Found – The Fountain of Youth! Mary Poplin demonstrates how to make talent look younger – Covers: mocha masking techniques, BCC Remove and BCC Warp, and general beauty techniques.

Digital Anarchy Beauty Box for Commercial work
April 20, 2016
Digital Anarchy has a few new tutorials featuring Colorist Jason Bowdach discussing how he uses Beauty Box Video for commercial work.

In Depth: Skin Retouching Part 5: Some New Tools and Tutorials
March 2, 2016
Since I started this series, there have been a couple of new tools on the market for skin touch-up and smoothing, as well as a couple of useful tutorials on the topic. I’ll talk about Sheffield Makeup Artist III, which came out in February, and Boris Continuum Complete Beauty Studio.

Performance Replacement with mocha tracking & masking: Eye Replacement
January 12, 2016
Product Manager Martin Brennand shows you how to track and replace an actor’s eyes when they accidentally look at the camera Using After Effects and mocha AE

Burning Question: How do I get started with Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve?
November 16, 2015
DaVinci Resolve is on my list of software to learn this year, too. You’re in luck. I’ve been collecting tutorials together in a list that either look like I’d learn a lot from them or have an interesting outcome. Here are some that will hopefully get you started.

Image Restoration and Touch Up in After Effects Seminar
November 12, 2015
Here is the archived video of the event, in case you missed it, and more information on links mentioned in the session.