Wrong Colour

[codswallop]

How can you isolate a face in a photo group with the intention of changing the tone/colour without showing a line all round the face?Thanks!

[Old_Geezer]

Whilst I have little experience of this I would have thought a decent graphics application could detect the face edge and apply effects inside that aren't applied outside. Couldn't it ?

[codswallop]

Thanks OG I was hoping for something a bit more specific ie which prog. and how to go about it.

[woofgang]

which program are you thinking of using?

[Old_Geezer]

No expert but I understand Adobe Photoshop is popular. Or have you tried GIMP maybe ? Can't say for sure it's what you are looking for but maybe worth looking at.

[Prudie]

I'd say Photoshop but as I have it and understand about 2% of its capabilities I'd suggest you need someone good with it.

[codswallop]

Either of OG's suggestions or Paint Net.But more importantly ....how?

[woofgang]

many programs now have facial recognition and an auto improvement facility, other wise you use the magic wand selector to select the face you want to alter then copy/paste it onto a new layer. do whatever editing you want and it wont affect the rest of the image. If you go and look on youtube, there are loads of tutorials.

[bazwillrun]

What you want to do is very basic and a few minuts at most to do but you still need an understanding of the software to get he best results
Layers masks and feathering.
Adjustment layers and soft brush
Combinations of the above

you could just select the face and then use any of the adjustment tools eg hue and saturation, levels, contrast, replace colour, selective colour, channels etc etc

theres usually a ton of ways to do anything in photoshop and most other photosoftware

you need at least a basic grasp of layer, masks and selection tools

youtube has a gazillion vids on how to do all this kind of thing inPshop, Pshop elements, GIMP, Net.paint etc etc, they all work roughly the same

[codswallop]

Thank you all,I'm just about to try your suggestions !!!! Here goes.

[jno]

if you use some sort of selection tool to isolate the face, raise its tolerance levels?

[bazwillrun]

but to not get the line the OP mentions that wont work, feathering of the selection or a very soft edged brush to make the mask is how to avoid it

[Buenchico]

In Photoshop, simply use the lasso tool to outline the face. Then (the important bit!) right-click and select 'Feathering'. Choose a suitable value (perhaps 10 pixels, but it will depend upon the size of the image). Then apply the required changes to the selected area before right-clicking again and deselecting it.

Not got Photoshop? Try GIMP:
http://www.gimp.org/

[codswallop]

I've tried it on PSE but the feathering won't come in for some reason.

[Buenchico]

I use Photoshop 6.0 (which is an old, but 'full', version of the program). You can still do the same thing in PSE but the instructions are slightly different:
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/selections/feather-quick-mask/