I’m working on set of images from a shoot with backlighting and I’m using the diffuse or sharpen module to smooth out the somewhat harsh transition between light and dark with a setting that tries to emulate something akin to my Tiffen Black Pro Mist filter.
I’m getting good results when it comes to making the transition smoother, but the module de-saturates the underlying colors dramatically. So, faces and skin go completely pale and people look sick. Can’t remember my physical filter doing this.
Is there any way I can retain the underlying color more effectively?
Sorry, a commissioned shoot, so can’t upload samples.
could you use color balance rgb to re-saturate the colors. Maybe if you could share your preset we could download it and try it on some of our own images to see what is going wrong.
Can you blend in lightness and get the impact you want…are you viewing the preview in HQR/Preview…The visual impact of DorS is only really accurately displayed with that mode…just a quick couple of thoughts
From the limited information you provided, it might be that diffusion/decreasing contrasts pushed the values out of the mid-tones (I am assuming this is where your highest saturation is) and so are being de-saturated. If you set colors with CB-RGB prior to enabling DoS, you should go back and adjust. CB comes after DoS in the pipe.
But all we can really do is speculate since it really depends on the the image/processing. As @Terry said, providing the settings you are using might be helpful.