Tan Skin Tone
October 30th, 2006 Filed in: Tricks & Tips Jump to comments
Someone emailed me and asked how to make the golden/tan skin tone as seen in many movie posters and magazine advertisements. Believe it or not, the effect can be achieved by just couple mouse clicks. Here is a quick Photoshop tutorial to show you how to make a tan skin tone effect and apply makeups on the model. Let’s take a look at the image below, the left image is original photo and the right is final image.
Before & After
1. Overlay Layer
Open the original document that you want to apply the effect. Go to Layer > Duplicate Layer (or press Cmd + J) to duplicate the original layer. Set the duplicated layer Blending mode to Overlay. Then adjust the Opacity to 70%. The Opacity may be vary, depend on the brightness and color of your original photo source.
2. Highlight Spots
Select the original layer. Choose the Brush tool, set brush Size = 200px, Mode = Color Dodge and Opacity = 10%. Use the Eyedropper tool to pick a sample skin color from the image (Option+Click on the image). Gently brush on the areas that you want to be shine.
3. Eyeshadow
Make a selection around the eyelid, go to Selection > Feather (Cmd+Option+D) to feather the selection by 5px. Make a new layer and fill the selection with a light pink color. Then set the blending mode to Hue.
Make another selection slightly smaller than the pink layer. Again, feather it by 5px. Fill it with a blue purple color and set the blending mode to Darken.
4. Eyeliner
Make a selection of the eyeliner. Feather it by 3px. Make a new layer. Use the Gradient tool (pick a green color, select Foreground to Transparent), then drag from the lower corner to the upper corner of the selection. Adjust the blending mode to Multiply.
Final
Use the same technique to finish off the left eye. You may also use this technique to apply the color of the lip, blush, etc.
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Really nice tutorial. For a glamour-like soft focus effect try applying a bit of gaussian blur to the overlay layer.
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:24 pm
the tutorial was super super great!! very useful….
January 8th, 2007 at 4:58 am
veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy goooooooood job
apriciate
over all good job
December 30th, 2006 at 11:14 am
thanks for sharing your skills.
December 18th, 2006 at 1:48 am
Cool. Would love you to do a tutorial on how they get photos to look almost like sketches or illustrations used in movie posters a la http://www.harshtimes.com/
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December 6th, 2006 at 5:03 am
Amazing,really amazing I love this website and your designs are just wonderful!
December 4th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Thanks for the tutorial man - love your work dude!
December 2nd, 2006 at 10:29 am
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November 29th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
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