One of my longest running creative challenges has been to match two different skin tones in photoshop. Im especially interested in texturing figures using multiple sources...or somtimes there are tonal differences between different areas of one source. Im skilled in photoshop and can do decent skin tone matches, but if someone has some advanced advice that would be great.

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There was a recent thread in the Photoshop area that MAY help with this...take a look over there. Also, though maybe not a viable alternative, take a look at one of the new features in the new version of PS (CS) that will match tones (or something like that) from 2 images so that one will take on a tone like the other you sample from. Not sure if this helps much but I'm not usually much help anyway.

Take a RGB color reading on the pic you'd like to match and then just adjust the color mapping on the other skin photo accordingly.

Have you tried using the selective color options? They are quite a bit more subtle than variations or levels. Also they let you adjust just reds or yellows or neutrals etc, far better than an overall adjustment. Not sure what level Photoshop you are at, but that's what I would do, even as far as isolating specific parts for individual adjustments...(as if I have TIME right now....someone please tell my publisher to send the magazine to PRINT already! I'm having Poser fits) zai

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generally I use selective color. what fls said intrigues me, but Im not sure what he means. is he saying get an RGB value with the dropper and then adjust the skin tone with color balance?

You've got it, although I use PicPub from Micrografx and not PS. You also will need to use some cloning and smoothing brushes, although I'm not sure what they call those functions in PS.

If you do a search for 'anton' in this forum, you'll find a thread from about 10 days ago where anton keisel (ex-make-up artist and poser texture maker) posted 2 jpegs. They contained a whole array of skin and make-up tones which you could use to sample and match colors. mac

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Here's a useful Photoshop filter. I've tested it on skin maps and it works very well.

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