Everyone in today's Post on it to show you how to retouch skin in the video inside of.
So if you have an image removing blemishes, pimples, taking out wrinkles, those are really easy to do inside off Photoshopped.
But to do that for video, the process gets a lot more Adobe Premiere.
So this process is not too hard to do inside of Adobe PhotoShop complicated. But I have a process that off used for many years, I believe,
for the last seven or eight years, and it's plugging for Adobe premiere that makes a super easy order to do it manually.
It takes a lot of Maurin premier, requiring some blending between layers using some blur filters,
and I never really got a good result In the last decade or so, Off tried many different tools,
many manual options using after effects using Premiere. But the best filter I ever found was a filter called Beauty Box.
I'm gonna apply it right now to my skin. As you could see, it really softens the skin and is very subtle.
You could also get that to be not subtle. If you wanted to really push that up and then get a lot more on natural.
But the subtle presets on the filter worked really well.
I want to show you how to get preset, how to bring it into Adobe premiere, and then how to basically customize it for your video.
Okay, first things first. Click the link in the description to come to this page,
and this is where we're gonna install and download the beauty box here and there's an option to try it. The problem is, is going to come with a watermark. So if you do try it and you like it,
you do actually have to buy it. So I'm gonna click buy here, and it's going to take me to the by page and the beauty box is what I'm looking for.
It's on four-point. Oh, I used to have three-point also the previous versions to get an upgrade.
It's a lot cheaper here, so I don't have to pay the full price.
So it is basically a lifetime investment that you could just pay the upgrade fee for, and I'm going to choose one.
Make sure you choose the platform where you want this.
So I want this in after effects or premiere, in this case, Premier, it comes both and I want A for a Mac,
you could also have a for window and then go ahead and add it to the cart.
And once you do buy, it is gonna basically send you an email.
Let me show you the email right now that comes with this text file in the email.
So it's going to give you the download instructions from where you would get this project file from.
And then you do have to type in your license number here to activate it.
But it does tell you the installation process.
So in the case of a maki gave me a DMG file. This is the DMG
fall. I'm going to go ahead and double click it and then you go ahead and install that give your destination and installation of already installed it.
It's already inside of my premiere, so I'm not going to go through this process, but there shouldn't be any problems there. The cool thing is, he also comes with this pdf manual,
and that was one of the links that he gave you and show you exactly how to use it.
So for example, the filter is broken up just like this for some of the advanced options.
Now, don't worry about this, because I'm gonna show you how to do it. Gonna jump into the premiere here now, inside of Premiere.
This is just the intro video I just shot.
I just brought it in. While I record this section to show you how to do this.
I want to apply for the skin softener right here.
The beauty box. So right here on my premier among just default editing mode again, make sure your workspace looks like mine so you could fall along,
go to the FX tap here, and are called beauty bucks. So I'm gonna search for a beauty box, and it should have a folder like this.
Make sure you do Restart your premiere.
If this does not appear at first and all you have to do is go ahead and drag and drop this or double click it to put it on your video clip right here.
This is the beauty box filter.
If I Turk it off, you could see the subtle difference right here taking place.
Look under my eyes here and look at the difference that he has by the default setting.
Let me actually go ahead and zoom in so you could see a little its very subtle boy, really nicely softens the skin here.
Now, if you wanted to do a lot more right here, these are the settings that I'm going to go over.
I'm not going to do a full tutorial bit better here. So if I turn it off and on all these different settings.
The pdf I showed you actually explain all these, but smoothing amounts is very important for hair.
So it's set to 30 from the default.
I usually just use the default sendings out of the box.
Well, let's say I went all the way to 80. This is the setting at 80.
So if I turn it on and off, you could see it's even taken out some of these highlights here.
It's a big, big difference, but at the same time, it's not very noticeable.
So what if I went to 300 for example, and he may take a little bit depending on your speed.
I actually have a 64 Gig Ram computer here.
So it is going relatively fast.
Looks like 200 is the max, but you could see a big difference right here in the skin.
So off on now. Skin detail smoothing.
Let's bring that all the way up to 100.
I just want to show you just how high this could go.
Look at that again.
A big difference Now you could really see it if you turn it on and off.
Let's look, in contrast, enhanced. Let's take that 200.
And it's really smoothing out the contrast here between the different parts of the skin so you could see those big changes.
Let me go ahead and delete this, and I want to reapply it one more time, and I want to show you one option that you should get started with right away.
Down here, there is an option that says, Analyze frame so you actually are doing that.
But you could force it to analyze the frame to get better results.
And, as you could see, immediately soften the skin a lot more than the default setting had.
So if I turn it on and off, you could see the difference there.
What that does basically takes the dark colors and using a picker epic on the dark colors and the light colors.
And then he chooses, is choosing the lights and the dark parts of my skin tone to create this effect here.
So as you could see a big difference by doing that.
And that's what the analyzed frame does.
He basically types in all these different settings for you without you actually picking anything.
And now if I take the smoothing amount to 100 is gonna be a huge difference right here, especially in the forehead. You see, the wrinkles are all gone.
Let me take this to 100 and look at that.
Now that's starting to look a lot more natural, and this is probably not where we want to be with this filter,
but I think you get the idea of the power of this beauty box filter right out of the box, then press, analyze frame, then want to go,
depending on your taste and on your subject and a couple other things worth looking at.
Preserve small details. This is 75% so you could go ahead and reduce this if you like and shine removal is one of my favorite options that actually removes shine, which is kind of a big deal if we take this to 75.
There wasn't a whole lot of shine here, but that does also create a lot of a natural look from
the video if you go too high with this so I try to keep this kind of low on the 20%
side, depending on how much shine I have on the subject. But again, if you don't have makeup on set,
this shine option is an important feature inside this filter. Well, I hope you found this video useful.
I know the plugin does cost a little bit of money, but I think it is well worth the investment.
If you don't have makeup on set, for example, which would cost you a few $100 every time you have a shoot,
this filter for a couple 100 bucks will last you a very long time and in my opinion, is one of the best pluggings you could buy for the money.
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