With corel paint can add fleshtone to a photo?

I have a really really light photo to work with.  Well his face is really light. My shirt printer doesn't pick up on things that are real light. The customer would like some color to his face and color doesn't exist in the original photograph. I guess easiest to explain if I post a photo

 

When I print it on a shirt (actually a different version that I have already put dark marks where shadows are on cheeks, lightened left nostril cuz it shows up really funny looking there by itself, shadow under lower lip,lightened high light on eyes.......    So I am getting some real slight form to the face but his face is as white as the white t-shirt it is on.

I have corel x4, corel paint, photo shop, and corel paint shop pro x2 ultimate

THANKS!!!

 

Not my expertise (I have none), but you may want to try unsing the image adjustment lab to increase the saturation, midtones and shadows..

I played a quick bit with the Effects | Adjust (Ctrl+B) and set the brightness at -20 and the intensity at 20 (I usualy use equal opposing numbers to keep the shading right) and got this result -- subtle, yet different:

This is what i did a couple days ago.  The photo has so much on it, it looks like he has been playing with ashes :-)  But then look how light it still is on the shirt (and my flash didn't go off so its actually even lighter. its a true white shirt)  Thats why I am thinking I am going to have to somehow add a layer of transparent color over his face, without affecting his eyes. (I just don't know how to.lol)

 

Thanks!

Hi,

you could add an object and change the blending (I used colour burn) mode, turn it into a clipmask then erase and reveal from there. I've enclosed a before/after screenshot for you. It's very rough in that I only spent 5 minutes on it, but I'm sure you'll get the drift.

Best,

Paul

That looks prety good, in my opinion.

lnj:

The customer would like some color to his face and color doesn't exist in the original photograph.

paint it in.. ;-)

OMG. How did you do that? I know you don't have time to tell every step but if you can tell me the basics that would be great. When I tried with color here and there it just didn't look right, it was too obvious.

With how my garment printer lightens things, I will still have to take the face portion alone and darken it, but this is a big big help!

All of you on this forum are wonderful

THANKS, Lisa

wrote in message news:78196@coreldraw.com...
> OMG. How did you do that? I know you don't have time to tell every step
> but if you can tell me the basics that would be great. When I tried with
> color here and there it just didn't look right, it was too obvious.
>

just create a new layer, take a very "soft" brush or airbrush setting, and
start painting - you'll have to experiment with the color as every image
will need different settings. you can then either change the merge mode on
this new layer (like from Normal to Multiply) and/or also change the
transparency level on the layer.

lnj:

OMG. How did you do that?

knowledge.. skill... the usual. LOL

lnj:

I know you don't have time to tell every step but if you can tell me the basics that would be great.

1. make new object
2. paint whole face with a solid fleshtone
3. adjust merge mode/transparency for this object in Ob. docker
4. selectively erase with very soft nib ( to see orig eyes and lips)
5. paint in some new hair on new object to cover forehead painting I did in step 2

I THINK that's what I did. LOL

duplicate layer > color burn > adjust opacity

selective color > adjust red and yellow

I spent about 2 minutes with a mask anc clone

THANKS GUYS>  ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I LOVE learning all this new stuff!

for me it's brilliant!!!