Creating a tan with Photoshop, video tutorial

SimpleFoto · Mar 24, 2011

I just did a tutorial on creating a tan. For those who are interested.. here it is

anyone else have any clever ways of reaching the same result? Changing skin color is a tricky thing as it very easily looks unnatural.

Peano · Mar 24, 2011

Alternative technique here.

Bynx · Mar 25, 2011

Very nice job SimpleFoto.

sierramister · Mar 25, 2011

I think the tan looks great. The only complaint I have is the area around the eye. The area is darker because of the way the photo was taken. When you add the tan, this area becomes even darker (or more orange I suppose). However, one who gets a natural tan sitting outdoors or uses glasses at an indoor tanning bed would have lighter skin around the eyelids and below the eye. If you lighten up the areas around the eye, even to match the same tonal consistency of the cheeks, I think it would make it look more realistic.

SimpleFoto · Mar 25, 2011

sierramister said:
I think the tan looks great. The only complaint I have is the area around the eye. The area is darker because of the way the photo was taken. When you add the tan, this area becomes even darker (or more orange I suppose). However, one who gets a natural tan sitting outdoors or uses glasses at an indoor tanning bed would have lighter skin around the eyelids and below the eye. If you lighten up the areas around the eye, even to match the same tonal consistency of the cheeks, I think it would make it look more realistic.

Yeah, good point - I didn't think of that. It would be pretty easy to make it a little lighter around the eyes, or brush on the layer mask to lessen the effect around the eyes.

tal_ninio · Mar 29, 2011

Basically a nice workflow.
Can be improved by putting al layers in a Group and using a single mask.
Easier to edit and much more accurate.

SimpleFoto · Mar 29, 2011

tal_ninio said:
Basically a nice workflow.
Can be improved by putting al layers in a Group and using a single mask.
Easier to edit and much more accurate.

Yeah, using groups would have been a lot smarter. I didn't think about that until after I created the tutorial

next time!

bonjames · Nov 5, 2011

HI this is the alternative way to make a Tan in Photoshopf free Photoshop tutorials
Here is a little tips for how to create tan look with photoshop.

1. Open the picture you want to work on.
2. Go to layer and then *new* and then *layer*.
3. Then go to color picker und pick a brown color approximaetly 280F0F but it depends on how bright your skin is. You can try other colours too until you get what you want.
4. On the right side of your photoshop on the bottom in front on *Opacity* there is a dropdown menu and it usualy set to *normal* by default. Now change that to *soft light*
5. Go to paint bucket tool* and now click on your picture.
BINGO! Now your picture should look much tanner than before

If its too dark you can change the light by going to *image* then *adjustments* then *curves* When you hit curves a window will pop up and now bring your mouse to the middle of the pop up window and drag it up and down and you will see the changes on your picture imediately. Stop where you like it and then click *OK*
So, now you have your tanned picture

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