Nice brown skintones like....

annacarina · #1 12-11-2007, 01:52 AM

Hi there. Im trying to get nice brown skintones like the ones that can be seen on Bill Simone photography or at Jim Fiscus sites. Now ive tried curves , fill, colorlibaries,hue/sat-sepia but nothing gets me even close. Maybe i have the wrong shot and maybe ive been photoshoping to much on this one to change anything.

annacarina · #2 12-11-2007, 01:55 AM

cant upload it sorry-but anyway - any surgestions? Thanks annacarina

pellepiano · #3 12-11-2007, 05:13 AM

Try painting with brown on a separate layer set to color and lower the opacity to taste.

cheshirepoet · #4 12-11-2007, 10:49 AM

Bill does a couple of things for the skin tones...one is to make a new hue/sat layer...set hue to around 29 and leave saturation at 25%, then change the layer to "soft light" mode and adjust opacity and fill. Another layer he sometimes does includes making a color fill layer and setting that to soft light as well. Make sure your image isn't too contrasty before you do these though. Hope that helped!

grannysdc · #5 12-11-2007, 02:11 PM

A sample would be nice

shellby · #6 12-11-2007, 04:38 PM

had a go with the hue sat method. One of my images from a trip to Zanzibar

superkoax · #7 12-11-2007, 05:20 PM

SHELL: what did you do?

cheshirepoet · #8 12-12-2007, 10:55 AM

Here's an example of using hue/saturation as softlight...

shellby · #9 12-12-2007, 12:19 PM

What cheshirepoet posted

annacarina · #10 12-14-2007, 03:49 AM

Hi - and thanks all . I must admit - the one surgestion with brush and color mode - That is not working at all - have you tried yourself? Hue/sat and softlight is working great. BTW - great humor! thanks

annacarina · #11 12-14-2007, 03:59 AM

Heres the image i would try it on. Hmmm - 100 kb is like scratching the balls without arms

superkoax · #12 12-14-2007, 04:25 AM

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Originally Posted by annacarina

Heres the image i would try it on. Hmmm - 100 kb is like scratching the balls without arms

hmmm...and this comes from a woman?

LOL!

pellepiano · #13 12-14-2007, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by annacarina

That is not working at all - have you tried yourself?

Its my standard way to correct skin tones.

In theory, making a Gradient Map of 5 or more samples of Fiscus skintones would make a good variable skin color. havent tried that one yet though.

annacarina · #14 12-14-2007, 08:23 AM

Gradient map of Fiscus skintones? are you serious- why? - Im satisfied with well lit images - added hue/sat , blend mode and some blend if.

annacarina · #15 12-14-2007, 08:31 AM

Model Manheim - had a look at your images - obviously you seem to know what you are talking about - I just dont understand the brown brush/colormode thing . When i try i get kind of curry yellow skintones - now you have to tell the komplete story behind this methode - eks wich brown, what do your start image look like in skincolor ect.