Hi There, Was bored today so I put this together. The powders are fall within the "natural" palette and are minimal makeup friendly. The Eyeshadow Spheres will help get colors that look more beleivable. Just avoid the very outer edge. I added the lip Range for those having trouble finding lipstick/Gloss shades. The terms: Base = flood fill skin Contour= Creases and recessions Highlight= protrusions and bevels Midtone = is like blush. Say highlight is on top of the cheek and countor is below, Midtone is used to blend the two or for more flushed areas(more saturated) Regards, Anton PS: If ya have questions, feel free to ask here.

This is terrific Anton, thank you very much. I've never tried making my own skintone before and this looks like it could be the perfect starting point. 8) Catlin

No problem. The lighter cubes from the skintone colors can also be used to color tone existing maps darker with material and highlight colors.

That's pretty cool there. nicely layed out and the colors work well together. almost like you know about makeup or someting haha. thanks Anton, that is really cool to see it layed out like that.

finally breathes in after holding her breath WHOAAAA! What a terrific addition to my texturing folder. Do you by chance happen to have the chart in TIF format? GREAT job, Anton, and Thanks! Genevieve

:-) Thanks!

SWEET!!! This are skin and make-up colors only, right? I must test drive.... bB <---- scurrying off

Im going to ask the stupid question of how do I use this? Im a little tiny bit confused. :(

Thanks Anton very usefull and elegant palette! :)

Now this is useful...Thank you again Anton,

spudgrl, If you have a program like PhotoShop you can have two windows open, one with the texture you are painting and the other with this image. Use the eyedropper tool to pick up the color from Anton's map and then your brush tool on the template to apply that color. (Use the [ and ] keys to change brush sizes on the fly while painting.) Example, you have the seam guide slightly visible under your map. You've filled the area with the skin base after picking a base from the upper left corner of one of his palette. Now you want to use the highlight color on the tops on the cheekbones and middle of forehead, etc., and the contour color in the hollows... so you eyedrop the corresponding colors from this palette and brush them neatly on your image, knowing with some confidence that they will work well together. The range is fairly tight and elegant. Anton, Thanks... this is very well and thoughtfully laid out! Carolly

Thank you Anton. This is something I really, really needed :)

this is great!!! thanks anton,i will have a play with this latr after i've been shopping :)

Thanks Anton.

Excellent resource, Anton! Thank you for making it available. -Nancy.

Attached Link: Detailing Skin

No problem. Was fun to do. Aye, Carolly is correct. This chart is good to use in conjection with the skin detailing tutorial. At some point I may do more involved tutorials when I have the time.

The color chart is great! I really appreciate it. Any tips on making decent looking freckles? I can't get the coloration quite right. Thanks!

I never made freckles. Most people try circles and ovals. Freckles are pigmentation clusters so use one of the darker shades above. Make some freckles ising small angled and slightly oval brushes. Then use ripple, wave or some distort function in Photoshop to diversify the shapes. You could try desaturating them and trying my skin tutorial above. Liverspots could be freckles too but more brown.

Freckles: 1) Use a cloud filter with some darker skintones (dark suntan and medium suntan, for instance) on its own layer, set layer blend mode to dissolve, and turn opacity way down until you get a good sprinkling of dots. Make a completely blank layer below it, then merge the dissolve layer down to get it in an editable form. Guassian blur with a small diameter (1 or 2 is what I used on a 2000 X 2000 map). Repeat for variety until you get a sprinkling you like. 2) VLD snowflake filter, free at http://www.v-d-l.com/index.html . Use a dark skintone and play with sliders until you get the effect you like. Here's another hint for freckle tone. Brown haired people will usually have brown/blackish freckles. Red-heads, though, will usually have more orange-y freckles. To get a good redheaded freckle color, chose a bright orange, then turn the saturation way down until you get into the brown area, and it'll look more realistic.

Here is another eyedropper chart for variations of the same tones. Just eyedrop from around the spheres. The spheres are good for showing tones for highlights and contour like on the nose, cheek, breast, buttock, etc

That's a great item to have, Anton! A nice JPG of it should be in the free section. Question: The smaller colors on the right...they all look the same same shade to me. Is this so? Or is my monitor screwed? (perhaps it's my color blindness showing up...my tans, beiges, lavendars, l. browns, vanillas, etc. tend to look the same).

I don't have hosting so I can't do freestuff these days. The small diagram to the right simply explains what the balls are on the left. The spheres contain varying shades of the same hue. Just eyedrop around the same sphere for accurate variation.

Wow!! These asre great Anton. Thanks for sharing.

"The small diagram to the right simply explains what the balls are on the left." DOH! "I don't have hosting so I can't do freestuff these days." Is that a PSD file? How big would the 2 files be together (zipped) ya think? Half a MB? 1 MB? I think I could host it for you, Anton, if you wanted to pursue it. My family site has a 5GB transfer (unless my math is wrong, I could easily take 1,000 downloads).

These are great, Anton. I remember the first skin tone palette you did, and still have it somewhere.

Thank you Anton, you're a sweetheart. :^

thanks Anton!

Thanks Anton - now that was just what I needed!

Glad to help. Hope everyone finds these useful. Please feel free to do any turorials using these charts if ya want to. Thanbks for the hosting offers. If you want to host them as freebies please feel free. The images are large enough to that uncompressed versions aren't necessary. Just please include my email in the read me(antonkisiel@comcast.net). You can bundle these with tutorials if ya want. Any links or info on uploaded web freebies or resources for my records would be awesome. Thansk. Anton antonkisiel@comcast.net

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