Color correcting in Premiere vs Photoshop?

It would be nice if the Lumetri 3-way color corrector allowed you to desaturate the midtones seperate from the highlights and shadows like FCPX's 3-way color corretor. Premiere Pro's old color correction filters are better but they lack suport for adding LUTs. 

Resolve of course has more tools ... it was built as a colorist app, and was something like $20,000 a license just a few years back. So yea, it's got more tools. We're steadily getting more in PrPro though, and for what you are asking you just need to use the correct tools.

You've used the RGB curve tool ... but apparently not the ones down below, the HSL curves. Hue v Hue would do exactly what you need. There's also the HSL secondary tab which can do this sort of thing.

And past that, yes, exporting a particular setup as a LUT can be useful. Do NOT put the ones you make in with the included LUTs though! They have a chart of where to do that so that 1) they are NOT in the package/program files and 2) all their video apps will "see" the same files.

But for your workflow, you may be best suited for using presets of Lumetri. Set up a Lumetri to what you need for one type of work. In the Effects Control Panel, save this instance as a preset. Build up a bin structure of Lumetri presets.

This way you drop those on the clips that look like they need that look, but ... you have all the controls set for that yet you can modfiy them.

Neil

it appears that you need to select points closer together to refine the red hue v hue curves. i'm guessing they are selecting too many hues. try the eye dropper on skin tones.

i also noticed you desat your shadows and highlights. while this works in theory, any low bitrate/chroma video is going to get macroblocking due to luma/chroma pulling. it's better to whitebalance multiple points in rgb curves.

I suggest you investigate blackmagicdesign's davinci resolve.  A much better interface for color correction in my opinion.  There's a free version that has most of the features of the paid version (which is a very reasonable flat fee) and it's a great way to evaluate the program.  That's not to say you can't do most things in Premiere.  For example, you can create a secondary with a mask to do a correction for just the face and Resolve will do a pretty amazing track of the face as it moves which you can than tweak if necessary.  Doable in Premiere, but you need to jump thru some hoops.   

Can be tricky to get your sequence from Premiere into Resolve, but once you're over that hump, it's pretty great...