I made a freckled Michael named 'Liam' for my Shades of Michael set. I was aiming for a good irish 'turkey egg' freckle on very pale skin, with a little bit of tan grin To Make the freckles Using Photoshop 6 Used my base skin texture (Albert, also in the SHOM). Lightened and desaturated the base texture. Made 2 new layers - small freckles and large freckles small freckles - filled layer with white. Added 30 gausian noise (monochromatic). 4 ish Gaussian blur. Then 15 Gaussian noise, 2 gaussian blur. Adjusted brightness and contrast to get sharper spots. Set layer to 'color burn' and opacity to about 5, erased unwanted areas using soft brush large freckles - handpainted in larger freckles using soft brush. Set layer characteristics same as Small freckles layer Hope that helps some! and BTW, with dark hair your avatar looks almost exactly like an old schoolmate of mine