you are beautiful just as you are  i sometimes have blemishes though that  i'd rather not show up in my publicly  released videos so i'm going to teach  you how i remove  things like a pimple and just do subtle  and respectful touch-ups  [Music]  this lesson is brought to you by  ameridroid.com  if you love to learn and love to tinker  ameridroid.com is the site for you  single board computers maker tech and  home automation all from their american  support center shop with a company that  we know and trust visit ameridroid.com  today i can't stress enough this isn't  about beauty standards or photoshopping  ourselves it's about those times when  you shoot a gorgeous video and then you  look back at the footage and you say oh  crap i wish i had to put some you know  just a dab of uh cover up on that we're  gonna jump into our color window here  okay so we're just touching things up  digitally just to correct for those  situations very tastefully very  respectfully we just want to fix that  create a new node and it's a corrector  and just drag that in here and now on  this corrector node i'm going to first  of all start on a frame where the pimple  is clearly visible i'm lucky in this  case because it starts uh even on the  first frame i can start it there so i  can just track forward yeah you could  always  like frame it like that and then track  backwards  until  until you've got everything but let's  start with tracking forward so i've  rewound the video to the very beginning  frame so now i'm going to add a  circle  window  and i'm going to make this about the  size of the pimple just a little bit  bigger and bring that down and drag it  on and zoom in so that we can make sure  that we get this all lined up nicely  okay  now you're going to want to really  meticulously follow these steps because  even though this is a very easy process  one misstep can really screw it up  so  watch out for that so now that i've  placed that directly on top of the  pimple i'm going to jump into my tracker  window and i'm just going to hit play  which is track forward in this case not  this play but the one down here notice  before i do that though i've got pan  tilt zoom rotate and 3d selected and i'm  currently in the default which is clip  mode these are all the correct settings  for what i want to do right now so i'm  going to hit this track forward  and it's going to follow that pimple  all right so now it is paused davinci  resolve has said hey it's gone outside  of the frame i can't find it so you need  to fix this so i'm going to actually go  to frame mode  that's one of the steps that you can't  miss in frame mode i'm just going to  scrub the timeline just a little bit  here so that i'm not overwriting the  keyframe that was created by  davinci resolve and i'm just going to  drag this down just to get it out of the  way because i don't want it to be  touching the edge of the frame because  then it might actually cause a little  bit of a  anomaly now i'm going to scrub here  notice that it created a keyframe as  soon as i moved it i'm going to scrub  until i see the pimple again there it is  so now that i see the pimple still in  frame mode i'm going to drag the window  back up onto the pimple  and make sure that i center it nicely  and now it created a keyframe which i  can  track backwards from  so i'm going to start that process now  there we go and now i'm going to jump  back to this keyframe by clicking this  button right here  and now i'm going to track forwards  and now it's outside of the frame i  believe that's the last time it's going  to be visible yes because the camera has  moved outside so i'm going to set my  next keyframe so just basically scrub  the timeline here  still in frame mode and then drag this  down and out of the shot completely  so  next step and kind of final step to  tracking is make absolutely certain you  switch back to clip mode that's very  important otherwise our next step is  going to actually break our tracking so  now we're in clip and we're going to  return to window mode  so now if i  zoom out a little bit  rewind my video and hit play watch this  gone are the days where we used to have  to  touch up frame by frame  there we go okay  so now that that is looking good we've  got all our tracking perfect i'm going  to find a frame where it's very visible  so it's it's out in the open  and then i'm going to zoom way in here  and i want to find an area of his skin  that i want to  basically  uh clone stamp onto the pimple so i'm  going to take this window remember we  had to switch our tracker to clip mode  first i'm going to move this over to  another area of his skin  make it just a little bit larger because  we don't want it to be just the size of  the pimple we want it a bit bigger and  then a little bit of a feathered edge  and now what's going to happen is that  is going to be skin that we're going to  replace over top of there but because  it's tracked it's going to move  seamlessly so now  i'm going to jump over to  this icon over here which is our sizing  set to  node sizing mode and then use pan and  tilt  if i pan you'll see that i'm moving that  flash see what i just did  where'd it  go there it is and now put the skin over  top it's pretty astonishing uh tilt is  going to move it up and down so if you  need to  but  that is pretty seamless you'd never know  it was there but the magic of resolve  now is that if i scrub  and push play  it is actually following that track  and replacing it in every single frame  perfectly  seamlessly  look at that so now i'm able to edit  render this video do whatever i normally  would and that blemish is completely  gone as if i had used cover up now the  final thing that i want to do is just  show you how to do a little bit of what  you  have heard called airbrushing it just  makes things look really really soft  really really  pretty pristine  removes blemishes like if you if you  have some acne  which this person doesn't but if you had  like some  some  scarring or anything like that that you  want to reduce a little bit then this is  an opportunity to do that you can kind  of soften the flesh make things look  really nice and that's just done by  adding another corrector node  drag this in and this is something that  i often do just as kind of a final touch  just to kind of clean things up and just  make it very very subtle you don't want  to go overboard with this but watch this  mid detail so now that i've selected  this new corrector node i'm going to  bring this way up to show you the  opposite effect of what we want to do so  as i bring this up  notice what is happening to  his his skin  so it's actually pronouncing blemishes  more  if i bring it down however so zero is  neutral so if i go below zero it starts  to soften things it's like a feathered  kind of look uh almost as if i'm  shooting this through  like a lace or something like that  see that  so now i have this absolutely  like that is probably overkill but i'm  doing that on purpose so that you can  see the effect  very clearly so i'll play that so notice  the pimples gone and we have removed  all like i don't even want to say  blemishes it's they're not blemishes  we just smoothed everything to the point  of ridiculous  but i wanted you to see how pronounced  that effect can be because it's so easy  to do  so now that we've  seen that effect now i'm just going to  bring that up and we're going to make it  a lot less pronounced so that it's  natural and i would say that that  happens  around 30 ish  in this particular video it's going to  be different based on so many different  variables but there you go so i think  that  that  is  flawless so that i would be proud to  bring that out of my studio for sure and  so what i've done there is i've taken a  video and added like i said very  respectful touch-ups that only take me a  few moments time we've done it together  here and you can do it too and you can  fix those little corrections that you  want to correct uh in your videos that  slipped through the studio makeup  department if you will alright  so thank you so much for watching and  don't forget to give me a subscribe and  a thumbs up on youtube i'd appreciate  that very much and in the meantime don't  forget if you are not having fun  you're doing it wrong i'm robbie  ferguson on the show show for category 5  technology tv i'll see you next time  [Music]