Porcelin Skin Tone Filter

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sfriedman
Mar 30, 2005
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Does anyone know if there is a Photoshop Filer that can render skin tones like a porcelin doll?
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JWSM
Mar 31, 2005
I assume you are trying to achieve the effect of early photographic minature portraiture, originally inspired by minature paintings on ivory.

I very much doubt there is filter available, as such colours are a palate. Each artist had their own special colour mix (some were quite secretive about this mix and technique). In photography the negative was doctored to remove grain and tonal differences (leaving just facial features). The photograph produced was bleached and sepia finished to change the image to a more eye pleasing hue. The sepia tones took colour better than B/W.

In fact, colouring a standard B/W image, usually looks like paint over soot.

The shading details removed on the negative were then put back using colours (peaches & cream look). Sometimes it was left to the photographic base (silk paper with its diagonal lattice pattern was popular), with the cheeks, mouth and eyes being the parts coloured (aside from other detail… hair and clothing). When these old photographs fade, you can see almost no grain or shadowing / shading on the face. I’ve examined a few of my family’s photographs, and you can tell the artist shaded the face to their own idea of depth and softness (ie., cheek bones and nose). On comparing a coloured minature to the same image in B/W, the coloured ones are more idealistic in finish to the reality of the B/W one.

Probably best to examine some older images, including pictures in books (some very good photographic colourists also did illustration). Perhaps by scanning an image or two, you could use the PhotoShop eyedropper to get a sample of the colours, and then go from there. If I recall, oil paint, watercolour and chalk / crayon was used (sometimes a combination of all three will be found on one print).

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John Rampling
Mar 31, 2005
This might give you some ideas although I think it may not be exactly what you want
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/porcelain/porcelain.htm

John

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Does anyone know if there is a Photoshop Filer that can render skin tones like a porcelin doll?
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harrylimey
Mar 31, 2005
"sfriedman" wrote in message
Does anyone know if there is a Photoshop Filer that can render skin tones like a porcelin doll?

Not sure about skin tones, but this free filter I came across today does a passable porcelain filter effect on a "church" (a stone one as opposed to Charlotte!)
This is taken from the website
The GUI has three sliders: the ‘Softness’ and ‘Strength’ sliders work together to control the overall effect, while the ‘Brightness’ filter is there for convenience – the algorithm used tends to darken the image, so just a little increase in brightness is often useful
http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/xero/index.htm?plugins.htm

Harry
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John Rampling
Mar 31, 2005
Here’s a quick method that might work:

Open your image and create a Duplicate layer.
Set the Blending mode of the duplicate layer to ‘Screen’. With the duplicate layer selected, choose Image/Adjust/ Hue & Saturation; check the ‘colorize’ box and use values of 200 for Hue, 50 for Saturation (centre) and 0 for Lightness (centre).
Erase the parts of the duplicate layer that you do not want to be affected (or use a layer mask).
Fiddle with the above settings until you like the effect. For example if it’s too strong, alter the opacity of the duplicate layer.

John

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Does anyone know if there is a Photoshop Filer that can render skin tones like a porcelin doll?
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Brooklyn NYC
Mar 31, 2005
"John Rampling" wrote in message
Here’s a quick method that might work:

Open your image and create a Duplicate layer.
Set the Blending mode of the duplicate layer to ‘Screen’. With the duplicate layer selected, choose Image/Adjust/ Hue & Saturation; check the ‘colorize’ box and use values of 200 for Hue, 50 for Saturation (centre) and 0 for Lightness (centre).
Erase the parts of the duplicate layer that you do not want to be affected (or use a layer mask).
Fiddle with the above settings until you like the effect. For example if it’s too strong, alter the opacity of the duplicate layer.
John

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Does anyone know if there is a Photoshop Filer that can render skin tones like a porcelin doll?

Here’s another way:

1) Duplicate the image
2) Go under the FILTER Menu — > Distort –> Diffuse Glow. WHen the dialog appears, lower the Graininess to 0, set the Glow Amount to 10 and the Clear Amount to 15. Click ok to apply the effect.
3) Now, lower the opacity of this layer to 80% so that you can see the detail in the original image. Add a new layer (Layer 2). Change this new layer’s opacity to 40% and the blend mode to Luminosity.
4) Choose the History Brush (Y) fro the toolbox and paint over the areas
that have shadow detail.
5) Go back to the layers palette and click on Layer 1 (your duplicated image). Lower the opacity of the History brush (up in the Options bar) to 40% and paint over the eyes, lips (they’ll paint in color).
7) Now raise the history brush opacity to 100% and paint over the rest of
the photo.

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