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Skin tones.
« on: Friday 25 March 05 17:01 GMT (UK) »
I find the hardest part of colourising old photographs is getting realistic skin tones. Does anyone have any tips  on getting the look of a natural skin colour?
I find in group or family photograps it's especially difficult, to get a consistent skin colour across the group.
I'm using photoshop elements  and adjusting the hue/ saturation  until I get what I think looks a fairly realistic colour on one family member, but when I select a fresh face I have to start from scratch adjusting hue, saturation etc, for each person.
The other problem with faces is that so often the shiny forehead and nose are over exposed with no detail, while the sides of the cheeks can be in deep shadow. Is there simple way of evening exposure across the  face?
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Re: Skin tones.
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 26 March 05 00:24 GMT (UK) »
Hi Kmo,
    To get the skin tones uniform, create a layer called skin, then you can select all areas that show skin with your lasso tool. You can select more than one area at a time by selecting the add selection box, just under the Photoshop menu. Once all the area are selected, you can adjust Hue/Saturation. They will all adjust at the same time. Getting it to look  natural is trial and error. I don't know how many feature PS Elements has for Hue/Saturation, but in the Hue/Saturation window you will see Edit. This allows you to edit the default master and the individual colours.

Quote from: kmo on Friday 25 March 05 17:01 GMT (UK)
The other problem with faces is that so often the shiny forehead and nose are over exposed with no detail, while the sides of the cheeks can be in deep shadow. Is there simple way of evening exposure across the  face?

If you could post an example of you over exposed faces I will see how to rectify it. Sometimes you just have to go with what you have.

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Re: Skin tones.
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 26 March 05 01:19 GMT (UK) »
Heres a skin tone chart I use to  get in the ball park.

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