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Unusual (maybe) advise needed
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Aah no its not like that. The handprint is already there lol. So the photo I'm trying to do right now is a picture I took of A girl after being spanked, I want to do it in b&w but when I do you can no longer see she's been spanked.
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ibclare
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Still, the advice you've been given to make a separate layer for the red area is good. Just select the hand, feather it; make it a separate layer - ctl/cmd J - and colorize it a deeper shade. Then when you change everything to b&w, it will still stand out.
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Duplicate the original.
Desaturate the duplicate and apply a layer mask.
Select your Brush Tool, choose a soft brush, set your brushes fill to 1%.
Make sure black is your foreground color.
Use the brush to slowly bring back the redness of the skin where the spanking occurred.
Desaturate the duplicate and apply a layer mask.
Select your Brush Tool, choose a soft brush, set your brushes fill to 1%.
Make sure black is your foreground color.
Use the brush to slowly bring back the redness of the skin where the spanking occurred.
Tom Mann
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When converting a color photo to black and white, it's extremely easy to darken or lighten reddened areas of the skin. All you do is use the sliders in a B&W conversion adjustment layer as shown below.
Instead of your "application", to simulate reddened skin, I used a photo of a man with acne from a university tutorial on using photoshop: http://www.uni.edu/fabos/idc/tutorials/photoshop/ps.html
If you set the sliders in the B&W conversion adjustment layer like this,
The red areas of skin will be lightened:
OTOH, if you set them like this,
The red areas of skin will be darkened.
HTH,
Tom
Instead of your "application", to simulate reddened skin, I used a photo of a man with acne from a university tutorial on using photoshop: http://www.uni.edu/fabos/idc/tutorials/photoshop/ps.html
If you set the sliders in the B&W conversion adjustment layer like this,
The red areas of skin will be lightened:
OTOH, if you set them like this,
The red areas of skin will be darkened.
HTH,
Tom
here are some attempts i've made.
***partial nudity follows***
the original:
i had to increase the red to make it work.
replace colour then convert to b&w:
marks are too pronounced.
adjust hue/saturation then convert to b&w
i prefer this but the skin looks very mottled and i'm having trouble smoothing it
any more sugestions
***partial nudity follows***
the original:
i had to increase the red to make it work.
replace colour then convert to b&w:
marks are too pronounced.
adjust hue/saturation then convert to b&w
i prefer this but the skin looks very mottled and i'm having trouble smoothing it
any more sugestions
Hoogle
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http://www.peachpit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=50846e48-7b66-46e3-8e4a-17fc38da9915
I am not saying it is the best way as there are far superior ways of doing so but it may do what you need ignore the fact that it is for noise reduction but really noise reduction is all about blurring out unwanted pixels. I also think this is quite good as it is very flexible and using easy native photoshop tools without getting to technical
I am not saying it is the best way as there are far superior ways of doing so but it may do what you need ignore the fact that it is for noise reduction but really noise reduction is all about blurring out unwanted pixels. I also think this is quite good as it is very flexible and using easy native photoshop tools without getting to technical
Tom Mann
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Hi Hoogle - The problem he is facing is not camera noise. Rather, it is the fact that in blue light (effectively, what I offered as a possibility), skin truly appears mottled. I only offered the BW conversion sliders method after the OP said something like, "I know the basics of layers" because this method is is likely to be quicker and easier for him.
Personally, I think that methods such as the one Mike suggested where one lays down an approximate, roughly blurred image of a hand using the pen tool (or something similar) and then doing whatever you want to that area are likely to yield much better results.
T
Personally, I think that methods such as the one Mike suggested where one lays down an approximate, roughly blurred image of a hand using the pen tool (or something similar) and then doing whatever you want to that area are likely to yield much better results.
T