>>2830664>>2830704Thank you both, that's very helpful.
First pass at it. Excuse the out of focus selfie. Light is meh, but the tonal range is about what I intend to work with.
- started with the suggested global adjustments, subtracted contrast and saturation
- made an adjustment layer for skin, pushed it warmer and more uniform, took brightness and saturation down slightly
-new adjustment layer for background, lowered temp, increased clarity
-also pulled out a lot of red from the background, which looks weird but matches the aesthetic better (I won't be shooting anywhere with ambient reds)
-added a wee bit of cyan to the highlights to make the skin mesh a bit better with the cooler background
If you look through his stuff, it looks like he tries to make the the skin or clothes match elements of the background, tone-wise. This would have been more successful if I had chosen a better setting.
