How to make a black person white

I remember during the OJ trial some magazine made a white version of OJ. I tried and all i could come up with was a cartoon-looking thing. How can it be done?

From: "fredrickson"

I remember during the OJ trial some magazine made a white version of OJ.

Maybe you're thinking about the famous news weekly magazine cover photo of his mug shot (can't recall whether it was Time or Newsweek), but that one actually made him look DARKER and the magazine was accused of being racist.

Ask Michael Jackson

"fredrickson" wrote in message

I remember during the OJ trial some magazine made a white version of OJ. I tried and all i could come up with was a cartoon-looking thing. How can it be done?

"Bobby Dogg" wrote in message

Ask Michael Jackson

ROFLMAO!

"fredrickson" wrote in message

I remember during the OJ trial some magazine made a white version of OJ.

I

tried and all i could come up with was a cartoon-looking thing. How can

it

be done?

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:06:49 +0100, "Bobby Dogg" wrote:

Ask Michael Jackson

LOL!

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So does nobody know the technique in photoshop ?

"fredrickson" wrote in message

I remember during the OJ trial some magazine made a white version of OJ. I tried and all i could come up with was a cartoon-looking thing. How can it be done?

So does nobody know the technique in photoshop ?

You can do this in Photoshop, but there is no step-by-step procedure--"Click this button, type in this number, click this button" way to do it. A project like this requires a highly skilled operator/retouching artist with considerable experience.

Lightening skin is a color-correction problem; a good basic approach to doing this is to select the areas of skin, then correct them using Image->Adjust->Curves. You'll need to pull out both magenta and cyan, take out a considerable amount of black, and add yellow (or, if working in RGB, add red and green and pull out blue)--but whenever you change both the color and luminosity of an object by a large amount it can be quite tricky to get a realistic effect. If the person's skin is quite dark, you may find that it's easiest to work in CMYK, and use the information in the black channel to preserve detail and texture by selectively copying parts of the black channel into the other channels and then pulling a lot of the high end out of the black.

Color correction will get the skin into the right color range, but there are other changes that need to be made as well--facial features must be changed, for example.

I once did a catalog project for an all-black church in Florida. As part of the catalog, I took a painting showing Jesus and the disciples, and did a rendering as if they were black. It's a challenging assignment, and required well over six hours' Photoshop time before the client signed off on it; you may have considerable difficulty with this kind of project if you're a Photoshop novice.

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"fredrickson" wrote in message

I remember during the OJ trial some magazine made a white version of OJ. I tried and all i could come up with was a cartoon-looking thing. How can it be done?

I did this one a while back:
http://www.freakingnews.com/fullview.asp?iid=4007&seed=F kNJ&ext=.jpg

I did most of it with Replace Color (just bit by bit, in small steps, and I maksed all the parts I did not want to be color changed) Channelmixer & Curves. (Also some Liquify to change her face to a more 'White' face) The hair is the most difficult, since there's hardly any contrast in it.

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(Tacit) wrote:

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I once did a catalog project for an all-black church in Florida. As part of the catalog, I took a painting showing Jesus and the disciples, and did a rendering as if they were black. It's a challenging assignment, and required well over six hours' Photoshop time before the client signed off on it [...]

Enlightening, isn't it? Of course, Jesus' actual appearance was closer to African than the white-sauce we tend to see in European art. I had a student once say that a particular rendition of Jesus was "too Jewish". It wasn't funny.

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wrote:

"fredrickson" wrote in message

I remember during the OJ trial some magazine made a white version of OJ. I tried and all i could come up with was a cartoon-looking thing. How can it be done?

I did this one a while back:
http://www.freakingnews.com/fullview.asp?iid=4007&seed=F kNJ&ext=.jpg

Wow! That's a major hit. I appreciate the many subtle changes you made, too.

Enlightening, isn't it? Of course, Jesus' actual appearance was closer to African than the white-sauce we tend to see in European art.

Yep. If there's one thing we can be sure of, it's that Jesus was probably quite Middle Eastern in appearance--no blond hair and blue eyes! :)

I had a
student once say that a particular rendition of Jesus was "too Jewish". It wasn't funny.

Well, it is pretty funny, when looked at in the right light. Jesus was, if I remember correctly...err, a Middle Eastern Jew.

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"Tacit" wrote in message

Enlightening, isn't it? Of course, Jesus' actual appearance was closer to African than the white-sauce we tend to see in European art.

Yep. If there's one thing we can be sure of, it's that Jesus was probably

quite

Middle Eastern in appearance--no blond hair and blue eyes! :)

I had a
student once say that a particular rendition of Jesus was "too Jewish". It wasn't funny.

Well, it is pretty funny, when looked at in the right light. Jesus was, if

I

remember correctly...err, a Middle Eastern Jew.

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The blonde hair and blue eyes came from His surf days in Hawai'i.

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I had a
student once say that a particular rendition of Jesus was "too Jewish". It wasn't funny.

Well, it is pretty funny, when looked at in the right light. Jesus was, if I remember correctly...err, a Middle Eastern Jew.

Of course. :) If one wants to troll for the truly clueless, just post anywhere that Jesus wasn't a Christian, any more than you are a Tacitian, or I am a Smithtian.

Anywhow, back to Photoshop - Maybe I'll work on a Halo Plugin today.

Tacit wrote:
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I once did a catalog project for an all-black church in Florida. As part of the catalog, I took a painting showing Jesus and the disciples, and did a rendering as if they were black. It's a challenging assignment, and required well over six hours' Photoshop time before the client signed off on it; you may have considerable difficulty with this kind of project if you're a Photoshop novice.

So did you make Judas white? :-)
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V1nc3nt wrote:

"fredrickson" wrote in message

I remember during the OJ trial some magazine made a white version of OJ. I tried and all i could come up with was a cartoon-looking thing. How can it be done?

I did this one a while back:
http://www.freakingnews.com/fullview.asp?iid=4007&seed=F kNJ&ext=.jpg

Very nice! Was that a while back or while black?

:-)

Uni

I did most of it with Replace Color (just bit by bit, in small steps, and I maksed all the parts I did not want to be color changed) Channelmixer & Curves. (Also some Liquify to change her face to a more 'White' face) The hair is the most difficult, since there's hardly any contrast in it.