How to make color tone like this?

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Alan_Kovar
Dec 12, 2008
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I’d like to find out how to make similar "color tone" effect like this: < http://www.horror-movies.ca/watermark.php?filename=poster_TH E_SITTER_2D_ORING.jpg>

I’m talking about those striking "artificial" skin tones you can see on many movie posters (or advertising/fashion posters). For example:
< http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/curious_case_of_benjam in_button_ver3.jpg> < http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/tropic_thunder_ver4.jp g> <http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/twilight_ver6.jpg> <http://www.impawards.com/2008/bitch_slap_ver7.html> <http://www.impawards.com/tv/posters/fringe_ver9.jpg> <http://www.impawards.com/tv/posters/dexter_ver2.jpg> <http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/hellboy_two_ver2.jpg>

I don’t know how to describe it (sorry, english is not my first language), but I like the way the color on the skin affects only certain tones. I hope you understand what I’m talking about 🙂 I tried to play with layer blending (BW + color balance of shadows)… but I never manage to do something like this. I suppose it has to be a common technique, sice I see it on so may posters and photos. Does anybody have some advice? Thanks!

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Phosphor
Dec 12, 2008
There are various ways and techniques, even some plugins, but try playing with Curves.
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Phosphor
Dec 12, 2008
The impawards site is serving an interstitial "No hotlinking" image for all those links you posted.
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Phosphor
Dec 12, 2008
But you can C&P the URL and get the images.
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Phosphor
Dec 12, 2008
Why would I want to do that? It’s the poster’s job to make sure they work, not mine to jump through hoops!

🙂
AK
Alan_Kovar
Dec 13, 2008
Sorry, I don’t know how to link these images the right way 🙁
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Phosphor
Dec 13, 2008
Sometimes it’s hard to tell, especially if the images are cached on your hard drive.

You check your links, and they appear. Anyone else, who doesn’t have the images cached, get the interstitial.

That’s one of the reasons why many of us use a free image host, such as <http://www.pixentral.com>, or host copies of images on our own server space.
AH
Andrew_Hart
Dec 13, 2008
Alan,

The links you posted seem to suggest the effect you are after may be the result of luminance masking, perhaps coupled with a knockout layer to protect the eyes. Try this procedure:

(a) Duplicate the background layer – CTRL + J (and perhaps rename it “Blur” as that helps to emphasise the purpose of the new layer).
(b) With the new Blur layer active, from the Menu bar choose Filter/Blur/Gaussian blur – about 20% for starters – each image may require slight variations to this amount.
(c) Turn off the visibility of the new Blur layer and select/make active the Background layer. (d) Go to Channels Palette and CTRL click on the Red channel. Return to the Layers Palette. Turn visibility of new Blur layer back on and select it.
(e) With the new Blur layer active, click the “Add layer mask” button at the bottom of the Layers Palette – this adds the Luminosity Mask to this layer and results in seeing the Gaussian blur now only inside the lightest (50%) details of the image. Now change the Blend Mode of this layer from Normal to Overlay. If the effect seems too strong, try the Soft Light blend mode which is less severe. If you want a greater effect than Overlay delivers, try Linear Light. You can back off the effect of any of these blend modes with the Opacity slider – but that would, I think, also back off the amount of Blur, which may or may not (depending upon the image) lessen the overall effect you are aiming for.
(f) Next comes the Knockout Layer (KL) to remove the effect of these Blur and Blend Mode edits from the eyes. The KL must be on top of the Blur layer, so make the Blur layer active and then add a new transparent layer above it – CTRL + Shift + N – and name it Knockout.
(g) On the new KL, select the eyes with the Elliptical Marquee Tool (select too much rather than too little – reason follows later) and fill the selection with Black – ALT + Backspace (provided Foreground Colour in Tools Palette is Black). Then deselect the eyes – CTRL + D.
(h) Bring up the Layer Style dialog box (LSDB) by double clicking on the icon for the KL. In the LSDB change Knockout from None to Shallow and reduce Fill Opacity from 100 to zero % and click OK which dismisses the LSDB. That is it – you have now eliminated the effects of the Blur layer on the eyes using the Black holes on the KL.
(i) To remove any excess eye selection, you use the Eraser tool (set to about 50% hardness) and “paint” around the edges of the eyes with the Eraser tool – what this is doing is reducing the size of the holes in the KL and bringing back the effects of the edits from the Blur layer.
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Andrew_Hart
Dec 13, 2008
Sorry, in (b) that should read 20 "pixels" and not 20 "%" and in (h) it should read "thumbnail" instead of "icon".

Should check my posts more thoroughly b4 pressing the big red button.

Reminds me of the dyslexic chap who said that his condition drove him nucking futs. Actually, this is more a spoonerism than dyslexia – anybody remember Ronnie Barker’s wonderful story of Rindercella? Possibly a bit rude for posting here, or I would share it with you. Side splitting!
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Alan_Kovar
Dec 13, 2008
Thanks Andrew. I’m not sure if this is the effect I was looking for, but the result is interesting too.
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Tim_Gallant
Dec 14, 2008
"Phos±four dots" wrote in message
Sometimes it’s hard to tell, especially if the images are cached on your hard drive.

You check your links, and they appear. Anyone else, who doesn’t have the images cached, get the interstitial.

That’s one of the reasons why many of us use a free image host, such as <http://www.pixentral.com>, or host copies of images on our own server space.

But that would be a violation of copyright.

The only way around it is to link directly to where the image is hosted.


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Phosphor
Dec 14, 2008
"But that would be a violation of copyright."

You might want to get current with the court rulings for this sort of thing.

Oh, and Tim? Please kill the autoquote feature on your newsreader client. If you must quote in order to maintain clarity, please do so manually, and sparingly. That’s the way we do things here.

Thanks.
AH
Andrew_Hart
Dec 14, 2008
Tim,

Your reference to copyright violation is really OT, I suppose, but I’m curious. Just what act are you saying "would be a violation of copyright"? And what "image" are you referring to in the context of linking to it? I made no reference to dealings with any "image".
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dave_milbut
Dec 14, 2008
it would be discourtious to link when the person at the web site has specifically turned hot-linking off. (and turning off linking to an image is an IMPLICIT action as a web host!)

if you had to use images like that as an example, you should download them, then upload them to a server you own or a site like <http://pixentral.com>
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Alan_Kovar
Dec 27, 2008
Actually, I found these tutorials too, but thats not what I’m looking for. I’m interested in "painted looks" of those movie posters portraits.

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