fix neck

[Cassidy]

wishing you the best with this one

[leuallen]

The retouched neck area has purplish cast so it stands out from the other neck areas.

Try this, set your brush to blending Color, opacity 5-10%, and large, soft. Sample a good skin area from the neck or chin - while in brush mode, hold down the Alt key to the eyedropper and make sample.

Sweep over the discolored area, gradually removing the color cast. Might be a good idea to make a snapshot before you start, so that you can make several tries if necessary until you build up the technique.

This similar in effect to painting from a layer with low opacity, but it is quicker. You can also do different areas by resampling as you go. For example to reduce red areas and bring them into line with the rest of the skin.

This sometimes does not work, especially if the effected area is too strong and saturated in a particular color. But for slight casts, it does a good job of evening out things.

Larry

[ajcutler]

Hi Vicki:

On a separate layer I cloned from surrounding areas of the neck using varying amounts of opacity. While cloning I tried to keep some skin texture under her neck so that the repair would not stand out as much. On a separate blank layer, I set the mode to color, selected a color sample from another area of her neck and painted in a more uniform color to her repaired neck.

Alan