Create black skin color

[Emil Ellerbek]

Hey,

Can anyone give me a clue of how I can paint white skin black. Just like this picture:

http://www.ananova.com/images/news/tekestekahsayBIG410x344.jpg

Well, I'm not sure if this is the famous Michael Jackson disease, but I would really like to make an effect like this. I use Photoshop CS3 Extended, and I've tried to paint brown colors on the skin, using the layer effects such as "Hard Light" - but I got no good match. So if anyone could guide me it would be just awesome! :hugegrin:

[DDD]

Mask, adjustment layer and blend modes is one way.

Another is to use the clone tool, with another persons skin as the sample the paing on to this image. Then play with saturation, and blend modes.

[wes_design]

clone tool with low opacity will maintain the person's skin blotches and characteristics plus add the necessary color you need

[iLikePie]

Here is a quick little test I did for you... it is just using a few adjustment layers. You could do a lot better with a better photo and it will also depend a lot on the lighting.

(i left a stripe of white skin to show the difference).

Here's how i thought about it...
Looking at darker skin, essentially ALL the tones are darker, but of course there are still some highlights so you can't just drop the overall brightness equally. So i created a curves layer that looks like this (see below) so that the midtones were darkened a lot more than the lighter tones (the darker ones i had already modified with levels).
The levels layer was to get the general feel of the photo to match, so it had the whole dark area on the left side of the photo.
The hue saturation layer was the other one - mainly to tweak the reds because they started popping too much, as a lot of caucasian skin would. Darker skin is often almost greenish, so i pushed the hues this way a bit and i think desaturated... just play around till it looks right, use some reference photos :)

good luck, and show us your results!

[Emil Ellerbek]

Thanks guys!
I now have some different methods to work with! It's awesome!

Thanks :beer2:

[Emil Ellerbek]

Well, here is my first attempt:

http://imageshack.dk/imagesfree/Z6Z02100.jpg

It's not 100% perfect but it will be with some more time.
Thanks again!

[Dave]

My Nigga! :P (training day)

[iLikePie]

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