I asked this in the texturing forum, but it doesn't appear anyone visits there much, so thought I would ask here.

If you are making your own skin base & if you are using texture resource kits & you wanted to use elements from different sets to make your texture more individual - How would you go about incorporating them together if they are different colours/skin tones?

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If you wanted to add elements from your own photos, if they are different colours, how do you add them together without them looking patchy?

I have PS CS2 & PSP 8,9

Thanks

Hummmmmnot sure I totally understand your predicament but allow me to venture if Ive not misunderstood. Your skin textures should be then taken into Photoshop and should be laid out as a PSD file and you should be able to control each layer independently. If this is the case, try negotiating layer mode and opacity. Im sure youll be able to control all aspects of your art.

What you ask for is pretty hardcore... The worklflow Quest suggests seems like a solid way to go. The replace color option (Image, Adjustments) might be of good use for this. It allows changing the hue level, saturation and lightness adjustment of colors by pixelselection with the eyedropper tool. A faster way would be to open your files seperatly and use the Match color option (also under Adjustments), this 'matching' does however sound better than it actually is, since it didn't realy match the colors last time I tried, only kinda came close... There has to be an easier solution for this, so maybe sit this one out a little longer, there's probably some Photoshop-genius out there who may decide to join this forum today, or the next day... Hope you het there, greetz

Forgot about this; 'how do you add them together without them looking patchy?' After adjusting the colors so they match, you can paste the part you want to add in a new layer and use the Eraser tool to soften the edges. Go easy with the opacity and flow percentages at first. Afterwords you can use the Smudge tool to blend the edges together, again, take it easy with this tool becouse it will mes up your pixels if you take it too far (stay away from it if your images are high-resolution). Hope this helps, greetz

Thanks I will have a try at this, I haven't used the replace colour tool much yet, I only discovered it the other day LOL.

Try this as an example/tutorial: Take out a skin tone, and put another skin tone that doesn;t quite match on a l;ayer above it. Make an Adjustment Layer (bottom of the Layers Palette - the circle that's split half black, half white) of not only Hue/Sat but Levels. Put them above the skin tone layer you want to correct/match. Hold Alt (or Option for Mac users) and click on the line between the skin tone and the Adj Layer to "lock" them together. Now double-click on one Adj Layer at a time and make your adjustments - changing the colors to be closer, and the Levels to be the same richness and color fine tuning as well - don't just leave it at RGB adjustments either - click the down arrow and select the colors most "off" and tweak them until they match closely. Good luck, and I hope that will help you in PS. -Lew ;-)