QT Skin Compressor is a professional DCTL from Qazi's Toolkit for DaVinci Resolve Studio, designed to correct uneven skin tones, discoloration, and unwanted hue variations while maintaining smooth and natural-looking results.

Using a specialized Hue v Hue adjustment, Skin Compressor allows colorists to select a representative skin hue and smoothly compress surrounding skin colors toward that target. The amount and range of correction can be precisely controlled, making it possible to reduce red, magenta, yellow, or other unwanted variations in skin without relying on complex masks or manual tracking.

FEATURES

• Professional skin tone correction and hue compression
• Reduces discoloration and uneven skin hues
• Specialized Hue v Hue processing
• Select a target skin hue
• Compress surrounding skin hues toward the selected hue
• Rotate the selected skin hue clockwise or counter-clockwise
• Independent Smoothness Left and Right controls
• Adjustable range and falloff around the targeted hue
• Single Hue and Complementary Hues processing modes
• Highlight selected skin hues directly in the viewer
• Hue v Hue Chart visualization
• Hue Sweep Chart visualization
• Global Blend control
• Bypass control
• Color-space-aware processing
• Designed for smooth and natural-looking skin tone adjustments
• Useful for beauty work, commercials, interviews, music videos, narrative films, and cinematic color grading

CONTROLS

• Selected Skin Hue
• Compress Skin Hue
• Skin Hue Rotation
• Smoothness Left
• Smoothness Right
• Blend
• Hue v Hue Chart
• Hue Sweep Chart
• Show Selected Skin Hue
• Hue Selection: Single Hue / Complementary Hues
• Bypass

COLOR MANAGEMENT

• Color Space Primaries selection
• Transfer Function selection
• Processes skin tones with respect to the selected color space
• Returns the image in the same selected color space

SPECIFICATIONS

• Tool Type: DCTL
• Version: v1.1
• DCTL Package Size: 585 KB
• Workflow: DaVinci Resolve Color Page
• CPU: Intel Core i5, AMD Ryzen 7, Apple M1 / M2 or better
• RAM: 16 GB
• GPU: 4 GB VRAM
• DaVinci Resolve Studio required

COMPATIBILITY

DaVinci Resolve Studio, macOS, Windows