A question for all you Photoshop users

[Nighttime]

While faking a celeb, putting her face on anothers´ body is easy, but how to make the colours match? Do you know, how to change the colour of the face and not distort its contoures?

 

[CitY of MicA]

I use photoshop for work but have never attempted a fake, so I suppose I'm only half-qualified to help you. If you have the face isolated as a layer, go to 'adjust' (I can't recall the menu heading) and choose 'hue/saturation.' You can then adjust the color using the hue, saturation, and brightness controls without comprimising the contours and shadows. If you use the selective color or replacement color options, you may have trouble maintaining the integrity of the subject; this is because you've isolated certain colors to alter them as apposed to treating the image as a whole. The brightness/contrast option may also come in handy. Please tell me how it goes 🙂 .

 

[Dave2112]

I use Arcsoft instead of the standard Adobe Photoshop, but the principle should be the same. As noted by Mica, make sure that you have the head (or whatever) on a separate layer. Whatever you do to adjust the color or tone of that layer will only affect THAT layer. It takes a little getting used to, but you shouldn't have any problem.

 

[Oblesklk]

Yup, Mica covered the most important part. I'm sure if you have a professional comes in here, there's very scientific procedures used and such. I'm an amateur, so I just keep fiddling with it until it looks right.

Few things you should do to make a fake look very real:

Make sure you get the head/body proportioned correctly

Make sure you get the brightness of the faked parts to match the rest of the scene

Fiddle with the colors of the layer to get that to match too

learn to use the stamping tool. It performs miracles.


For advanced users:

(my opinion only) avoid pics that have been circulating around the community for years. It takes away from the freshness of your art, and tears down that plausible aspect of the scene

use PS's advanced featured like light renders to match the layer up on the scene. If the scene's at a beach, you'll probably want to cause a bit of glare. If it's in a dark room, the opposite is needed

I like to blur and sharpen the layers as well, to have them match up with the scene I'm working with. TV vidcaps tend to be quite blurry, whereas magazines scans and the link will usually be high quality stuff. Almost impossible to go from blurry to sharp (when you're using extremes).

Hope this helped. I love this particular artform, and love to see new faces popping up on the boards with their fakes in tow.

 

[jude38]

photoshop color

the easiest way to match a color is to use the eyedrop tool.
click on a color close to the face, say arond the neck, this will automaticly change the color for your paitbrush tool.
experiment with the different hues until you find what you like.

hope this helps😎

 

[daddy]

Also don't forget that when you use your lasso tool or pen tool to cut out the head, apply a feather of 1 so you get rid of hard edges...as a matter of fact I recommend you do that with all selections especially during clean up. On cleanup, clone the outlines of the OLD head on the lower layer with a little background so no edges stick out around the new head. You need not clone over the whole old head, but just enough of the edges. As well as adjusting the colors, use the smudge tool to blend some colors together also. To me the cleanup "is" the success of making these photos look real...take your time and practice...then you will have your own technique in no time!!!

daddy