Match skin tone from one photo to another?

In PS CS2, can you take one photo, which is properly color-balanced, measure the skin tone, and then balance another photo (of the same person) by clicking on a similar area of skin and some kind of fix it button? I know you can do this for an image if it has a grey card in it.

"DeanB" wrote in message

In PS CS2, can you take one photo, which is properly color-balanced, measure the skin tone, and then balance another photo (of the same person) by clicking on a similar area of skin and some kind of fix it button? I know you can do this for an image if it has a grey card in it.

Try opening both images then:
Image > adjustments > match colour!!

"DeanB" wrote:

In PS CS2, can you take one photo, which is properly color-balanced, measure the skin tone, and then balance another photo (of the same person) by clicking on a similar area of skin and some kind of fix it button?

I guess the answer is no else I (we) don't have some hard time dealing with different skin-tones of photo with more than one person.

I know you can do this for an image if it has a grey card in it.

Grey card may have some use (I don't use grey card) but it isn't the answer, else I wouldn't go without it.

Well, I sure don't have the magical spell to give you except spending more and more time learning more about Photoshop instead of hoping for miracle. Learn to use

- Multiple Layers, Selective Color, Color Balance, Contrast, Masking etc.. (also try something like Temperature as it can help with skin-tone too).

"DeanB" wrote in message

In PS CS2, can you take one photo, which is properly color-balanced, measure the skin tone, and then balance another photo (of the same person) by clicking on a similar area of skin and some kind of fix it button? I know you can do this for an image if it has a grey card in it.

Hi Dean,

If you have CS2, try using the color matching function and see if that does the trick. Otherwise, you can do it in any version of PS using the following procedure:

Use the eyedropper info palette to read the color, write down the numbers, and use curves to match the color in the other image. Try using both RGB and Lab - if the color difference is spread evenly across the image as an overall color tinge, Lab may give you a better result with less work.

Curvemeister has a pinning feature that allows you to do the same operation more automatically. If you would like, I would consider using your two images to write a tutorial on matching skin tones with Curvemeister. --
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

Though obvious, I'm not sure why, but that doesn't work well for me. I get better luck by selecting any area of skin and doing an average blur. Use that to get your tone for a match color or to compare color values.

Philip

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:52:42 +0100, "Harry Limey" wrote:

"DeanB" wrote in message

In PS CS2, can you take one photo, which is properly color-balanced, measure the skin tone, and then balance another photo (of the same person) by clicking on a similar area of skin and some kind of fix it button? I know you can do this for an image if it has a grey card in it.

Try opening both images then:
Image > adjustments > match colour!!

DeanB wrote:

In PS CS2, can you take one photo, which is properly color-balanced, measure the skin tone, and then balance another photo (of the same person) by clicking on a similar area of skin and some kind of fix it button? I know you can do this for an image if it has a grey card in it.

Personally, I'd open both images, convert both to LAB, find areas that should be similar in both, measure those spots in the 'good' image using the eyedropper color sampler tool, set similar sample points on the 'bad' image, and then change the A and B channels in a curve on the 'bad' image so the sampled numbers matched up. Then tweak.

But that's just me. I'm a little old-skool.