How to Copy Skin Color on CS5
When crayon boxes have increased their number of skin shades, so far they have never come close to replicating the sheer number of differences in skin shades across the globe. But one software program in the Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop CS5, comes close. With a specific Photoshop tool, you can identify, copy and represent skin color in the exact color represented in the original on your screen. Images break down into pixels, and with Photoshop CS5, you can pick pixels that work with the desired skin color.
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Instructions
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Open Photoshop CS5 and click the "File" menu. Click "Open" and browse to a photograph to use to copy skin color. Click the file name and click "Open."
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Click the "Magnify" tool at the bottom of the "Tools" section. Zoom in until the skin part to copy breaks up into tiny squares called pixels. Even in a small section of skin, you may have many different colors blending together that you can't see until you zoom in at this level.
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Click the "Eyedropper" tool, which looks like its namesake, on the "Tools" section. Click the pixel of skin color to copy. Note that skin color appears in the box at the bottom of the "Tools" section.
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Double-click the box showing the skin color. Highlight the six-digit code to the right of the "#" sign at the bottom of the "Color Picker" window. Press the "Ctrl" and "C" keys to copy it into Photoshop's memory. You may also want to write down the number so that you may use it at a later time.
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Click the "OK" button to close the "Color Picker" and return to the image.
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Tips & Warnings
Although you can work with color in many of the other Creative Suite 5 tools, such as in Illustrator and Dreamweaver, Photoshop is the only one that lets you identify pixels by their exact hexadecimal shades, allowing you to copy and re-use a skin color throughout your artwork.
