Skin tone modification using picture manipulation program

[Milamber]

I'm wondering, could someone help/guide/give advise how to change skin tone in picture manipulation program? Are there any tutorials on the net that I could use? Like to do picture manipulation white to black.

[xythan_shadow]

It's been years since I've touched a graphics editor, but if memory serves me correctly, photoshop had a tool that would replace a color up to ~5% with another color of your choice.


For example, you could replace pure white and any color within 5% of white with a green. You could also narrow the field to say exactly white or 1% of white etc.

Unfortunatly, I can't say for certain since I don't have a copy of it or work with it anymore.

[LG2005]

Originally Posted by Milamber

I'm wondering, could someone help/guide/give advise how to change skin tone in picture manipulation program? Are there any tutorials on the net that I could use? Like to do picture manipulation white to black.

Really easy in Photoshop. Select your skin areas either by outlining it manually or by using the "magic wand" or by seleciton color. Add layer adjustments for "Levels", "Hue/Saturation", "Color Balance". Tweak to perfection.

Ta Da!

Details available for $50/hour.

[LG2005]

Actually something like this only took a "Levels" adjustment from 1.0 to 0.3 to get the desired darkening.

Most any decent image editing package can apply Level adjustments to selected parts of a photo.

Adobe PhotoshopCS2 is expensive ($600-700) but Adobe PhotoshopElements2 or 3 is only about $100. Other inexpensive programs like with PaintShop Pro, etc. should be able to do it. As well as free programs like GIMP. Like I said, any "decent" image editing package with layering capability and level, hue, balance controls should be able to do it, it just takes a bit of practice and knowing what the adjustments are adjusting.