Doing Sunless Tan Picture Editing

By Haywood Hunter


Models these days always opt to have a darker skin tone because it looks relatively nicer when they are featured on the magazine. The only thing about getting a tan would be the grueling process about baking in the sun for a long time. In order for models to skip these process, editors in the industry do a sunless tan picture editing session so that the models look darker. Just to give an overview to beginners, here is how to do a very simple sunless tan picture editing work.



The process of sunless tan picture editing in photos is actually very simple however it is important that one possesses the proper software for this task. Probably the best one to use would be the Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4 because it has that kind of option. Other sunless tan picture editing software may be used but the most recommended one would be Photoshop.

So in sunless tan picture editing, first boot up the Photoshop program and select the photo that is going to be fixed up. The following part would be to bring the mouse over to the right side and click on the layering option. Then select the background layer option and then click on the message that says duplicate layer.



One must now be put into a special mode in Photoshop by clicking on the Q button in the keyboard. Select the black background so that it will be easy to see which parts are going to be affected. Then click on the brush tool and start painting that parts to be fixed.

After that is finished, click on Q to go out of this mode. Then move on to the toolbar, press the select option, and then click inverse. Once the inverse option is already clicked, one will be able to see that the parts to be fixed are highlighted.

Then click on the button called the solid fill color button and select the color pantone 175 c to change the skin color. After that, look for the opacity level of the photo and change it to around eighty to eighty five percent. When one has done that, he will see that the skin of the person is darker.

The last step in sunless tan picture editing would be to refine the photo with the smudge tool that Photoshop provides. Notice that there are edited pictures that actually look fake because the color of the face is different from the color of the neck and vice versa. That is why it is important for an editor to always blend all the parts together so that it does not look edited.

So for those new editors out there in the industry, take note of these sunless tan picture editing methods. Always take note that sunless tan picture editing demands a lot of attention because it can either enhance a photo a lot of just make it really ugly. So editors must constantly be very detailed and careful otherwise their photos will look fake.




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