Magic Bullet Cosmo II
Below, you'll find a description of how the different controls in Cosmo II will adjust your footage.
Skin Selection
Show Selection: Before this control will operate, you need to first use Skin Sample. After doing so, Show Selection will display the mask that Cosmo II uses to isolate skin and perform corrections. You can adjust how much of your footage is selected with Selection Offset and Selection Tolerance.
Skin Sample: For Cosmo II to work, begin with the Skin Sample parameter. Use the color picker to sample a section of your talent's skin. We recommend choosing a skin area with even lighting for best results. Avoid areas where the skin is in shadow or bright light.
Selection Offset: This control rotates the hue of the current skin sample. Use this with Selection Tolerance to isolate your subject’s skin tones. To visualize the corrections from this control, it's helpful to enable Show Selection.
Selection Tolerance: This control widens or decreases the range of hues that Cosmo II will affect. Use this control if there are variations in your talent's skin tone.
Skin Smoothing
Skin Smooth: This control will adjust the overall smoothness applied to skin regions selected in the Skin Selection control group. Higher values will apply higher levels of smoothness, which may cause the effect to perform slower.
Preserve Detail: This control will bring back fine detail in your subject's skin, such as fine lines, eyelashes, etc., to give Cosmo a more natural, subtle effect on your footage.
Preserve Contrast: This control will bring back contouring to your subject in case it has been affected by variances in lighting. This is a refinement control to help adjust any drastic differences created from applying the plug-in.
Sharpen Texture: This control helps sharpen any fuzziness created by Cosmo's adjustments.
Restore Noise: This control brings back noise from underneath the areas Cosmo has most affected. Since Cosmo is smoothing out underlying areas, the plug-in can create some noticeable noise reduction when your shot has a significant amount of noise.
Skin Color
Automatic Color Correct: This control manages how much Cosmo will try to keep skin tones within designated ranges. This helps prevent skin tones from being heavily affected by any other color corrections to your shot.
Skin Yellow/Pink: This control adjusts the amount of yellow (-100) or pink (+100) within the skin tones to which Cosmo has been applied.
Skin Color Unify: This control manages the variance in colors to which Cosmo has been applied. Higher values lessen the variance and bring colors closer together. Lower values let tones have a higher range.
Show Skin Overlay: This control toggles a grid showing the skin tones Cosmo will affect.
Strength: This control adjusts how much Cosmo's results will overlay onto footage. Higher values result in a more noticeable overlay. Lower results lessen the effect.