Colorizing skin tones

[delooch]

need some advice colorizing skin tones..

i have an image of 4 sets of arms and hands raised in the air, but they are all white folk, and i need to inject some multi-culturalism into it.

i tried just a cover overlay on a selection with different burn/multiply values but it doesnt look quite right on paper.

any suggestions??

[born2print]

I think you're on the right track, pretty difficult task to get to look natural. I might start with looking at a few other images with desirable color values as targets.

[LoganBlade]

ok RGB picture.
Go to green channel
select all
Copy
Paste on layer over image
set to multiply
add new layer fill in with Browns - Reds- Yellows - or what ever tint of a person you want to make and set that layer to screen

Fine tune as needed. The scrren of the green channel hgives you multiply some shadow needed to make it look alive vs the flat i think you are getting.

[delooch]

thanks, ill give this a try.. the color tones are close, but the method im using seems to be loosing contrast in the highlights..

[G_Town]

Or convert it to Lab and make curve adjustments to a or b without loosing contrast.

[Ear]

You can make a history snapshot then go adjust the crap out of the photo until the skin tones are where you want them (everything else will look horrible). At this point, take another history snapshot. Then, go back in history to the original picture, unadjusted. Select the history brush and click the brush icon next to the adjusted history snapshot and you can paint from the adjusted history state on to the normal one. You can adjust pressure and opacity of the brush too. It's a really quick, easy way to do this kind of thing.

[G_Town]

You can make a history snapshot then go adjust the crap out of the photo until the skin tones are where you want them (everything else will look horrible). At this point, take another history snapshot. Then, go back in history to the original picture, unadjusted. Select the history brush and click the brush icon next to the adjusted history snapshot and you can paint from the adjusted history state on to the normal one. You can adjust pressure and opacity of the brush too. It's a really quick, easy way to do this kind of thing.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, oh wait NVM :embarrassed: :kiss:

[Ear]

 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Mornin' G.  :cool:

[ratintrap]

ok RGB picture.
Go to green channel
select all
Copy
Paste on layer over image
set to multiply
add new layer fill in with Browns - Reds- Yellows - or what ever tint of a person you want to make and set that layer to screen

Fine tune as needed. The scrren of the green channel hgives you multiply some shadow needed to make it look alive vs the flat i think you are getting.

Nice tip.