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May 13, 2004
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Is any one doing colorizing of B&W prints with photo shop? I have trouble picking good flesh tones (Caucasian) and I’m have trouble painting in brown hair. Does anyone have any of Adobes numbers or pantone numbers they could suggest?
thanks
Smitty

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Marsupilami
May 13, 2004
Smitty wrote:
Is any one doing colorizing of B&W prints with photo shop? I have trouble picking good flesh tones (Caucasian) and I’m have trouble painting in brown hair. Does anyone have any of Adobes numbers or pantone numbers they could suggest?
thanks
Smitty

It’s got nothing to do with Ps but when I was in a school of arts we made our own swatch (watercolor and oil) of every kind of color skin and ,note, the amount of yellow was very very important in "white" complexions, what we intend to color with much pink if we didn’t try it first, for the hair i’d say that for brown hair there’s a small amount of golden hair melted inside,

but why do not pick up a color in a real photo and play with it ? my two euro cents…

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Mike Russell
May 13, 2004
Smitty wrote:
Is any one doing colorizing of B&W prints with photo shop? I have trouble picking good flesh tones (Caucasian) and I’m have trouble painting in brown hair. Does anyone have any of Adobes numbers or pantone numbers they could suggest?
thanks
Smitty

Scan in a color image with similar subject matter, then use the eyedropper to pick colors from it.
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Smitty
May 13, 2004
Thanks for your ideas.
smitty
"Mike Russell" wrote in message
Smitty wrote:
Is any one doing colorizing of B&W prints with photo shop? I have trouble picking good flesh tones (Caucasian) and I’m have trouble painting in brown hair. Does anyone have any of Adobes numbers or pantone numbers they could suggest?
thanks
Smitty

Scan in a color image with similar subject matter, then use the eyedropper to pick colors from it.
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JP Kabala
May 13, 2004
I think if you poke around at retouchpro.com
there’s still a chart there

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Is any one doing colorizing of B&W prints with photo shop? I have trouble picking good flesh tones (Caucasian) and I’m have trouble painting in
brown
hair. Does anyone have any of Adobes numbers or pantone numbers they could suggest?
thanks
Smitty

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Al Denelsbeck
May 13, 2004
"Smitty" <nospam> wrote in news::

Is any one doing colorizing of B&W prints with photo shop? I have trouble picking good flesh tones (Caucasian) and I’m have trouble painting in brown hair. Does anyone have any of Adobes numbers or pantone numbers they could suggest?
thanks
Smitty

Skin is translucent, and reflects differently in direct, bright light as opposed to shadow. So your better bet is to have a variety of skin tones to be used in highlight and shadow areas, more yellow/peach for highlights, a deeper tan to ruddy brown for shadows. One tone, adjusted bright or dark, just won’t do it.

Good luck!

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Hecate
May 14, 2004
On Thu, 13 May 2004 14:44:47 -0500, "Smitty" <nospam> wrote:

Is any one doing colorizing of B&W prints with photo shop? I have trouble picking good flesh tones (Caucasian) and I’m have trouble painting in brown hair. Does anyone have any of Adobes numbers or pantone numbers they could suggest?
thanks
Smitty

The easiest way of getting skin tones is to open several images of people and to sample the skin tones using the eyedropper and then paint with those colours.

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Paul MacGregor
May 14, 2004
Also look at old colourized photos to see the shades of skin tones used, personally I think that not getting the skin tone perfect (slightly washed out) is what makes a B&W look nice when colourized.
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Is any one doing colorizing of B&W prints with photo shop? I have trouble picking good flesh tones (Caucasian) and I’m have trouble painting in
brown
hair. Does anyone have any of Adobes numbers or pantone numbers they could suggest?
thanks
Smitty

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