September 10, 2009
Petra Hall is the winner of our second Dirty Pictures & ChrysQ contest for this KILLER Photoshop tutorial -- my jaw dropped when I saw how simple yet effective this can be! Congrats to Petra for winning a custom ChrysQ album slipcover!
FAKE TAN.
Some of us just don't tan well, even if it's been great and sunny weather this summer. Either it's because we're from a Nordic country, careful about our skin, or we have ghosts in our gene pool and just don't tan.
Here's an easy way to fix a fake tan, which is useful to have in your box of tricks together with the TRA actions (especially the Pro Retouch in TRA v1).
1. In Photoshop, create a new blank layer.
2. Set the Blending mode of this blank layer to Soft Light.
3. Pick a nice soft brush, and set the Opacity of the brush to around 30%.
4. Pick a ginger cookie brown color, not too yellow, so to taste for your subject.
5. Start painting on the empty layer and slowly build up this fake tan. Watch out for eyes and other details, just paint the skin.
If you find that the new tan is too intense, lower the Opacity of the layer, or change to another brown color.
I hope you enjoy this little neat trick!
Petra Hall, Sweden
The winner of the Dirty Pictures prize among the remaining entries, chosen at random, is Yuliya Molitvenik! She also had a killer article which will grace the blog next week!
Many thanks to all of you for sharing your Photoshop knowledge, photography tips, marketing know-how, and boudoir bits. The blog will be more interesting thanks to our dedicated reader/writers!
FAKE TAN.
Some of us just don't tan well, even if it's been great and sunny weather this summer. Either it's because we're from a Nordic country, careful about our skin, or we have ghosts in our gene pool and just don't tan.
Here's an easy way to fix a fake tan, which is useful to have in your box of tricks together with the TRA actions (especially the Pro Retouch in TRA v1).
1. In Photoshop, create a new blank layer.
2. Set the Blending mode of this blank layer to Soft Light.
3. Pick a nice soft brush, and set the Opacity of the brush to around 30%.
4. Pick a ginger cookie brown color, not too yellow, so to taste for your subject.
5. Start painting on the empty layer and slowly build up this fake tan. Watch out for eyes and other details, just paint the skin.
If you find that the new tan is too intense, lower the Opacity of the layer, or change to another brown color.
I hope you enjoy this little neat trick!
Petra Hall, Sweden
The winner of the Dirty Pictures prize among the remaining entries, chosen at random, is Yuliya Molitvenik! She also had a killer article which will grace the blog next week!
Many thanks to all of you for sharing your Photoshop knowledge, photography tips, marketing know-how, and boudoir bits. The blog will be more interesting thanks to our dedicated reader/writers!
really useful tip. Thanks for sharing.
(09.23.09 @ 02:34 AM)Wow! Thanks Petra!! I've already made use of this one!
(09.14.09 @ 01:11 PM)What a great tip! Thanks for sharing it, Petra!
(09.11.09 @ 12:32 PM)That is SO amazing! I just tried it and it works wonders! Thank you Thank You THANK YOU!
(09.11.09 @ 08:13 AM)COOL!!! This tutorial will be very useful! Many many thanks! : )
(09.10.09 @ 05:47 PM)I am a redhead and it's extremely hard for me to tan. I burn, peel, freckle, turn white again. Repeat. I've learned that it's hopeless and I really don't even try anymore. In all of my summer pictures, my whiteness sticks out like a sore thumb - NOT ANYMORE!!! Thanks so much, this is wonderful!
(09.10.09 @ 05:21 PM)That is awesome!
(09.10.09 @ 04:38 PM)Petra, you rock girl.... Great tutorial!
(09.10.09 @ 04:12 PM)WOW!!! I mean, how cool is this?? I love the ChryQ covers, and I would never had dreamt I'd own one!! And well, you do know i love the TRA stuff too (I have them all!). Thank you soo much!! :)
(09.10.09 @ 03:50 PM)