Topic: Skin Tones

[Greg Groess]

After reading the article on LAB skin tones I tried a little experiment.  I created a pin file for some of the Caucassian pin values.

The L range is from 62 to 72
The A range is from 11 to 33 in steps of 2
The B range is from 17 to 38 in steps of 2

I have set the mode to be Pin to color.  Give these a test fly and let me know what you think...My goal is to create a set of closely related pins that you could use to set the shadow and highlight on the same face.  I wanted the pins to be closely related.

Greg

[curvemeister]

Do you think it would be useful to have each hue at a variety of Lightness values?

[Greg Groess]

I was trying to figure that one out...

I wanted a adjustable Pin...but you already have that... it's just not very accessable...I was thinking of smaller panels of related colors I don't know for sure.

I just had a thought though...could you change the "Pin Area" to display little squares of colors in a fly over menu fashion so you could put like 50 colors on the tab and then pick the pin you want from the colors...like in a 5X10 grid.  Then you could set up colors by lightness values or whatever you wanted and have more than 1 pin to choose from...

So the way I see it would be...Hover the mouse over a pin tab say "light skin tone" and when the mouse hits the tab a small flying menu opens with 5X10 color swatches on it and you click a swatch and it sets the pin color for you to drag to the spot you want.  No pin would be created until you chose the color you want. <click> then the mouse becomes a pin.  You select the spot on the image you want to adjust <click> your mouse changes back to the arrow, and you leave a Pin on the image with the color you picked set.

This would give me faster access to larger amounts of pins and more freedome to choose a color rather than trying to adjust the pin.  I could have more presets to choose from. And i could create sets of colors for skin tones that are "family"

Greg

[curvemeister]

Hi Greg,

Hmmm, I like it.  Let's call them pin flyouts.  It's getting more important to access larger numbers of pins more easily - grist for the Curvemeister 3 mill.

Mike

[Greg Groess]

Indeed...

I think that would make pins very accessable...and much easier to work with...