Hi everyone, does anyone out there know where i can find a chart for flesh colours

Hi, i must appologise to jeanesa who answered to a previous thread when i asked for the same thing back in 09/22/04.
i will paste her reply here in case anyone else needs to know the same thing.

In another thread, Bandit asked for a technique to match skin tones from one photo to another. (This is useful if you have to combine two different photos taken in different lighting conditions into one.) I learned this technique in Ben Willmore’s Photoshop Mastery class this past summer. It is also described in his book: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques, p. 259.

This technique assumes that you’ve already adjusted the shadows/highlights in your image using either levels or curves. You’ll need two photos:
Photo1 – the photo with the skin tones you want to use
Photo2 – the photo with the skin tones that need to be corrected

1. Open Photo1 and use the Eyedropper tool to click on a skin area that is medium brightness (i.e., not a highlight and not a shadow). This will set the foreground color to the color of that skin area. Click on the foreground color and make a note of the RGB values which make up that color.

2. Open Photo2 and using the Color Sampler tool, click on an area of medium brightness (similar to the brightness of the area you clicked on in Photo1) on the skin that needs to be corrected. This will add a readout in the Info Palette for the Color Sampler point you just added.

3. Click on the little triangle in the upper right corner of the Info Palette to bring up the palette menu. Choose HSB Color. Make a note of the brightness setting (i.e., write it down if you won’t remember it). Then, click on the triangle to get the palette menu again and set it back to RGB Color.

4. Click on the foreground color (should still be the value set in step #1). You want to use that color, but not change the brightness of your image. So, you need to change the brightness setting of the foreground color to the same number you wrote down in step #3 (i.e., the brightness of the skin in the photo you need to correct). Now, write down the new RGB numbers (the ones after you change the brightness setting.)

5. Make a general selection of the skin you need to change in Photo2. (Don’t worry if it’s not perfect.)

6. Open a new Curves Adjustment Layer and add a point to each of the individual RGB curves (anywhere in the middle of the curve). Now, in each channel, make the point you added active by clicking on it. For the Input number, type in the number you see for that channel in the Info Palette (the number on the left). For the Output number, type in the number that you wrote down in Step #4. Do this for all three RGB channels and your skin tone in Photo2 should now look very close to Photo1.

7. If your selection wasn’t quite perfect, you can now clean it up using the Curves Adjustment Layer Mask.

Ben also wrote a tutorial using a similar technique to fix mismatched highlights which can be found at:
http://www.digitalmastery.com/compa...ne/psuser25.pdf.

Good luck and let me know if you run into any problems.

There is also a very good chart of hair and skin colors available in the Resource Section under Misc.

Bruce Beard's Hair and Skin Color Charts (http://www.retouchpro.com/resources/index.php?cid=5)

Thanks T Paul, thats exactly what i am looking for, cheers.

There is also a very good chart of hair and skin colors available in the Resource Section under Misc.

Bruce Beard's Hair and Skin Color Charts (http://www.retouchpro.com/resources/index.php?cid=5)

I've looked for Miscellaneous, I've looked for Resources, and have tried manipulating link.

Can anyone possibly tell me where the pages moved to?

Thanks!

Hi SkyArcher
Welcome to RetouchPro

Unfortunately the Resources Section at RetouchPro has disappeared so the links are no longer working.

I am reposting the charts here


Ken

You are a lifesaver... thank you so much Ken!

Yes, If you could email them to me that would be absolultely perfect. I'll PM you which email to send them to, a little easier for me to grab than business email.

And thank you... I've been a lurker for awhile :o: . Finally decided to join.

SkyArcher,

I found them.
They were posted in the Resources. But they were also posted here.

http://www.retouchpro.com/pages/colors.html

Ken

:happy: Thanks Ken!!

Can I suggest (and if you're already doing this then that's great) - are you using a colour gradient in your skin tones? I find colourising an area in a flesh colour is often insufficient. I now use three layers - one for the lightest possible colour, one for the main colour block and one for the darkest within the area you are colourising.

e.g. on light brown hair:

tan > yellow as a colour dodge layer
mid brown as the colourising layer
dark brown > black as a colour dodge layer.

Keep the opacities for each layer low (about 5-10%) and experiement between them - the luminance values in the colourised regions will do the rest.

Here's an example of one I've done recently:

http://www.mattybennett.plus.com/dmp/desaturated.jpg