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Friday, January 1, 2016

Sunless Tan Picture Editing At Its Best

By Haywood Hunter


Tanning has become a big hit among models and photographers because a little bit of darker skin tone will look good on the cover page. However, not everyone is willing to go through hours of sunbathing in order to get this kind of skin color. That is why what most photographers do sunless tan picture editing to make the skin tone of some of their models a little tanned. So for those who would want to have a nice tan in pictures, here are some sunless tan picture editing tips.



Doing some sunless tan picture editing is actually very easy providing one has a good photo editor. The best and most well known editor out in the market is none other than Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4 because it is both user friendly and complete with the functions. Of course there are other sunless tan picture editing programs out there like Fotofix, but Photoshop is known to be the best.

The very first thing to do when doing sunless tan picture editing is to run Photoshop and open up the photo that is to be edited. Now the next thing to do would be to scroll over to the right most area of the window and find the layer option. Once it is found, right click on the background layer and click on the duplicate layer button.



The next step in the sunless tan picture editing process would be to press the Q button and enter the quick mask mode. From there, choose black as the background color and click on the brush tool. After that, paint the area that is supposed to be tanned.

When that is done, exit the mask mode by pressing Q again. Look up to the upper toolbar and click on select and look for the option that is called inverse. Click on the inverse option and observe that the painted area is now highlighted.

Then click on the button called the solid fill color button and select the color pantone 175 c to change the skin color. After that, look for the opacity level of the photo and change it to around eighty to eighty five percent. When one has done that, he will see that the skin of the person is darker.

The last step in sunless tan picture editing would be to refine the photo with the smudge tool that Photoshop provides. Notice that there are edited pictures that actually look fake because the color of the face is different from the color of the neck and vice versa. That is why it is important for an editor to always blend all the parts together so that it does not look edited.

In a nutshell, those are some really useful sunless tan picture editing techniques that can be used in order to make the model look nicer. However, one must always remember that in sunless tan picture editing, he must be very observant when it comes to the details because sunless tan picture editing is a double edged sword. It can either beautify a photo or completely destroy it in an instant.




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