Color Matching question.

[Moth]

Hello All!

I have been working on a gag project that involves placing different co-worker heads on different bodies. However, I have been having some difficulty matching the skin tones. I thought it would simply be a matter of using the eye-dropper tool, getting some average values on the face and body, then using an adjustment layer grouped to the face layer to adjust the color.

However, my results are often not even close. Is there a particular way I'm supposed to be adjusting the color?

 

[Welles]

Moth,

By chance have you upgraded to Photoshop CS? The Match Color feature of the PS 8 would be ideal for that project.

There is a movie example on the NAPP web site home page which is available for anyone.

http://www.photoshopuser.com/photoshopcs.html

 

[Moth]

Unfortunately, I don't have Photoshop CS. I'm running version 7 but thanks for the tip. 8))

 

[Stroker]

I usually get good results with Curves.
Pick a highlight and write down the values.
Pick a lowlight and write down the values.
Add a Curves Ad-Layer and use the numbers to match...

Ummm...

Don't I have something in the archives about this around here?

edit:
No! It's not here! I even searched the Asylum and it's not there, either! I don't think I archived it, but I might have.
Man, good ramble, too.
Has WJ the Machine faultered?

 

[Rantin Al]

Moth, a Hue and Saturation or Selective Colour Adjustment layer linked (Option + click on the divider in the layer palette) to each head are my weapons of choice for this type of thing.

Al.

 

[ljiljana]

Moth You already get answers, but here is one site that I highly recommend: Advance curves and levels: fake faces :


http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~larrykin/pshop/contents.html


Hope this helps!

 

[Erik]

Sorry, Liljana, but someone who writes in a tutorials that "PC monitors display at 72 dpi, Mac?s at 96 dpi. So I set this for optimum on a Mac.", which is a lie as it is the exact opposite, needs to be checked first for other blunders.
So at this moment, I cannot agree to see this as a valuable source.

If he hadn't added that second phrase, it might have been a glitch, but not it's a real basic mistake.

 

[Moth]

Thank you all for your replies.

ljiljana, I've bookmarked the link but haven't had time to do an in-depth read of the tutorials.

Rantin Al, that's basically what I'm doing though I also have been using curves.

Stroker, if you have an archived ramble that would be awesome.

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[ljiljana]

Erik I did his tutorial " Fake Faces" and I didn`t come across any statment about PC and Mac!
I have PC and all the steps from his tutorial worked for me perfectly.