Add Flesh tone

Adobe Photoshop is capable of making complicated and elaborate masks, but for using with EasyArt you will only need to make the very simplest of masks.

For this tutorial use two of the heads from the Coyote Ugly Movie poster (supplied on the EasyArt CD)

In Photoshop navigate your way to the Tutorials folder on the EasyArt CD and double click the file "Mask Tutorial" to open the image of the girls heads.

Select the zoom tool, and zoom into the image until it is 100% size.

Go to the Actions list, scroll down to the blue EasyArt button "Make Flesh Mask" and click. A message will appear read it and press the stop button.
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To begin making the mask select the pen tool from your tool box and start to work your way around the girls head clicking a series of dots creating a path.

Having gone all the way around close the path by clicking on the first dot. Open the "Paths" list (Window > Paths) and click on the small triangle in the top right corner, scroll down the drop down list and click "Fill Path".

In the "Fill Path" window that appears, the contents drop down list should read "Use - Black"
the Blending should read "Opacity - 100% and Mode - Normal".
Rendering should read "Feather Radius - 0 and Anti-aliased turned off". Then click OK. The mask will appear purple.

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Click on the arrow again in the corner of the "Paths" list scroll down and click "Delete Path".
The dotted line has disappeared but the mask remains.

Now click around the other girls head including her hair and neck, and fill with the path as before. Remember to drag the image around using the space bar and mouse button.

The method for removing areas of the mask is exactly the same as creating them. With the zoom
tool selected, zoom into one of the eyes (200% zoom) then select the pen tool again and click a series of dots around the eye as you did before with the head. Click all the way around one eye and join up the path by clicking on the first dot again. Click on the arrow in the "Paths" list and select "Fill Path".
This time in the Fill Path window that appears change the "Use" to "White" in the Contents section.
Leave everything else as it was before. You can now see the eye area has just been cleared from
the mask. Click on the arrow again in the "Paths" list and click "delete path".
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With the mask completed, go back to the Actions list and click the "Make flesh Mask" button again which is now red.

EasyArt creates a separate "Flesh Mask" channel, which will be automatically used when you run one of the add flesh color routines.

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Adding 3 color flesh tone.

This tutorial will show you how to create the perfect flesh.
The regular EasyArt simulated process separation routine creates an excellent flesh but can be difficult to maintain over a large print run especially if there are large areas of flesh tone.

Photoshop navigate your way to the Tutorials folder on the EasyArt CD and double click the file "Coyote Ugly.psd".

Click on the blue EasyArt button "Make Flesh Mask" and begin making your mask.
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In the channels list, you will see there are now 3 extra flesh channels. To reduce this image down to a 6 color print you will have to make some channel adjustments.

by turning off the Yellow, Magenta, Green, Dark Brown, and Grey channels you are already down to 8 colors.

To reduce the number of printable channels even further, you can combine the light blue and dark blue channels together (there is not much blue in the image, combining the 2 together will make no noticeable difference to the print).

Turn off the Yellow, Magenta, Green, Dark Brown, Grey, Light Blue, and High light white channels, leaving you with a 6 color print.
White base, red, dark blue, light flesh, medium flesh and dark flesh.