the trick with photoshop is a light hand. Create color with very, very light layers, set the opacity at 1 or 2, and build up the color. Skin color is not one color, but multiple colors fading in and out....color can be enhanced by adding a touch of the complimentary color, ie, to enhance the red of lips, add a touch of green near the lip line... I am using techniques from hand tinting photos, I learned from my great grandmother who was an amazing photographer and colorist.. I have a photoshop addiction, and only allow myself a little time each month to play with it ;)
My sense of colouring is quite a disaster if i do it consciously.
Like...my blog's colour combinations are accidental and i am never sure of whether they are good or bad!
When I photoshop, i just proceed by hit and trial when it comes to colours and am never sure!
Often i have bought clothes and 15 days later screamed: 'why the hell did i buy this, the colours are awful!'! haha!
So now, I stick to safe choices only, am quite happy with safe colours and plain things. "Wear it and forget that you're wearing it" kind of things only.
A college professor from my engineering college days used to wear parrot green, bright pink trousers.
Combined with red/green polka dots on black T- shirts; and bright ties!
He was 60 years old at that time. LOL. I guess I'm better than that, at least!
I've seen your art work at Gaia and love it. Maybe you should post it here too, sometime.
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That's quite neat, the colouring.
Currently, I'm a hit and trial kind of a novice photoshopper...5-10 flops/per hit kind of artist!
:-)
You must teach me how to do such colouring, sometime!
Thanks.
the trick with photoshop is a light hand. Create color with very, very light layers, set the opacity at 1 or 2, and build up the color. Skin color is not one color, but multiple colors fading in and out....color can be enhanced by adding a touch of the complimentary color, ie, to enhance the red of lips, add a touch of green near the lip line...
I am using techniques from hand tinting photos, I learned from my great grandmother who was an amazing photographer and colorist..
I have a photoshop addiction, and only allow myself a little time each month to play with it ;)
My sense of colouring is quite a disaster if i do it consciously.
Like...my blog's colour combinations are accidental and i am never sure of whether they are good or bad!
When I photoshop, i just proceed by hit and trial when it comes to colours and am never sure!
Often i have bought clothes and 15 days later screamed: 'why the hell did i buy this, the colours are awful!'! haha!
So now, I stick to safe choices only, am quite happy with safe colours and plain things. "Wear it and forget that you're wearing it" kind of things only.
A college professor from my engineering college days used to wear parrot green, bright pink trousers.
Combined with red/green polka dots on black T- shirts; and bright ties!
He was 60 years old at that time. LOL. I guess I'm better than that, at least!
I've seen your art work at Gaia and love it. Maybe you should post it here too, sometime.
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