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Mannequin Skin Photoshop Actions Tutorial
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Highlight all your mannequin layers, then choose New Group from Layers from the top-right fly-out menu and name it 'MANNEQUINS' in the following window. Drag the folder icon over the Create a new layer icon at the foot of the palette to duplicate it. Now hit Cmd/Ctrl + E to Merge Group and rename it 'MANNEQUINS MERGED'. In this trick, I will explain the 10 steps change the color of your skin become white and slippery as a mannequin. By using smart filters feature in Photoshop CS3, we no longer need to use a lot of image layer to achieve this result. Find the picture of a Model that has a high resolution. Open the image in the File Menu Open. Photo Enhancing: These are all of the CoffeeShop actions that work in both Photoshop Elements and Photoshop and are used to enhance your images one way or another. For example, B&W conversions, color pop, color tints, vintage, etc. Retouching actions are grouped further down. How to use Frequency Separation in Photoshop for smooth silky skin without losing the pores. You may have heard the term Frequency Separation and wondered what it is. Or you have heard that all the high end retouchers are using this technique. Or, you may wonder how to smoothen out skin and remove blemishes and uneven coloring. Man-A-Kin is an easy to use and Free Photoshop Action that should be helpful for everyone from photographers, graphic designers, web developers, and just about anyone looking to improve or create fake, unrealistic skin tones using Photoshop. After completing your order, check your email for a receipt that also contains the download links(s).

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Adjusting skin tone…
one of the most common photo editing tasks.

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Many designers simply adjust skin tones the best they can, using their naked eye, but with unpredictable and inconsistent results.

Photoshop offers a simple way to measure the exact color values in an image and correct the color to a normal skin tone.

Besides ancestral background, there are also significant skin tone variations within each ethnic group. Both genetics and sun exposure also play a role in the wide spectrum of these variances, making skin tone correction one of the most challenging color correction tasks.

Although there is no “perfect” set of color values for all ethnicities, or for all lighting situations, there are guidelines to follow to make sure the skin tones in your subject are within the range of typical skin color for any particular ethnicity.

Photoshop gives us the tools we need to adjust the color values to within the normal range of skin color for any particular skin tone.

Skin Color Correction “By The Numbers”

We begin by measuring the current color values of the skin tones in Photoshop with the eyedropper tool. By measuring the color value in an image, and knowing what the “typical” skin tone value should be, we have our starting point. Once your image is within the normal color norm, you can then adjust-to-taste, while considering the lighting circumstances, etc. for the desired results.

We begin by first checking your settings for the Eye Dropper tool in Photoshop. Make sure it is NOT set on “Point Sample,” as that setting would only evaluate a 1 pixel square.

For this technique, we want to obtain a 5 X 5 average pixel color sample for an average color value in an area.

Shift-Click to Make a Target Area
With the eyedropper tool selected, and while holding the SHIFT key, click on an area
that is a diffused highlight (a light area of the skin, out of the shadows, having image detail).
Avoid the specular highlights of the image
(areas where the light source is reflecting off of the skin, which lack image detail).

Make a Curves Adjustment Layer

Click on the New Fill or Adjustment Layer Icon in the layers menu. In the layers Palette, select CURVES from the drop-down menu of the adjustment layer icon.

Skin Tone Color Values
Comparing Before and After

With your new Curves Adjustment Layer still selected, open the Info Pallet. You will see 2 sets of RGB values.They represent the color values within the target area that you selected by shift-clicking with the eyedropper tool.

The first set of numbers is the current value skin color .The 2nd set of numbers will show you the resulting changes when you adjust the color values using the curves adjustment layer.

In the main menu, the image itself should be in RGB Color
IMAGE > Mode > RGB Color Mode
however, we want the Info Palette to show CMYK values (instead of RGB values).

Depending on your version of Photoshop, you may need to click on the little eyedropper in the info pallet and change it to CMYK. We are now ready to begin changing the skin tone color.

Correction Skin Color
Evaluating Color Values of Skin Tone by the CMYK Numbers

We are now ready to begin manipulating the skin tones. By making adjustments in the Curves Adjustment Layer, we then view the results of how those adjustments effected the CMKY values in the Info Palette.

We chose “RGB Color Mode” so there are only 4 possible curve adjustments to simplify the process (would be 5 if in CMYK Mode).

The first selector is the RGB channel, which effects all of the colors globally (either darker or lighter). We can also select the individual channels (red, green & blue) to make targeted color changes.

Remember the numbers on the right are our 'new' values after we have tweaked the values in the curves dialogue box, and the numbers on the left are our original values we are trying to correct.

Adjusting Caucasian Skin Tones Accurately

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Under typical lighting conditions, Caucasian Skin Tone should have CMYK color values ratios in this general range:

Magenta and Yellow values should be nearly the same, but with slightly more Yellow than Magenta. Cyan should be between ⅕ to ⅓ of the Y and M numbers.Caucasians should have 0 black in the “highlight areas”.

Once the individual R-G-B channels have been adjusted to achieve an accurate overall tone, changing main RGB channel will effect the “saturation levels” to alter tones for a more fair-skin, or a more tanned look.

Example Curves Adjustments Made in this Image to Correct the Skin Tone

We began to adjust the curves in the various channels to get the numbers “in range.”

Since the sample we targeted with the eyedropper was a highlight, make your adjustment point in the highlight area (right side) of the curves adjustment dialogue box.

As we inspect the values in this example, the only color that is significantly out of range is the Cyan, which is too high.

Remember that the Cyan should be no more than ⅓ of the values of Magenta and Yellow.

In this example image, the original Cyan value is 16, whereas the Magenta is 34 & Yellow is 36. We know the Cyan is too high since it's current value of 16, and when multiplied 16 X 3 = 48, way more than the Magenta and Yellow numbers.

NOTE – when you adjust one channel, it also effects the other channels too, so you need a bit of back-and-forth to get it right.

In this example, to get the numbers within the 'normal range' the red channel was adjusted up a bit, and the blue channel adjusted down