OK Lovelyladylux, saying as you were so complimetary about my water drop pictures, I will try to answer your question
I was in Trinidad attending a Hindu wedding. Now that I'm back I'm going to print off a few photos and send them back there and am trying to make the photos look as professional as possible. I have Corelle Paint Shop Pro 2. Some of the photos I want to 'fix' are portraits and the subjects are dark skinned but when I use the makeover tool and blemish remover it tints everything for a caucasian......Does anybody know how to modify the makeover and blemish remover to work on dark skin?
I've figured out how to add back ground lighting and some of the special effects but am having a devil of a time with skin tones and removing blemishes......
1. open your selected picture in the main window.
2. From the ‘Home’ list on the left of your screen choose ‘Retouch & Restore’ the others in the list will be ‘Get Photo’s’- Adjust- Collage- Text & Graphics- Effects- Print & Share
3. After you select ‘Retouch & Restore’ you should see another menu that contains another list such as ‘Fix Redeye- Skin Smoothing- Makeover- Scratch Remover- Cover Flaws- Object Remover- Colour Changer- Fade Correction- & Selections, choose the option ‘Makeover’.
4. You will now see a vertical list of tool icons, hover your mouse over the (probably) eighth from the top in the list and on a fly-out it should say ‘Makeover-Blemish Fixer Tool’
5. After clicking on this icon your mouse pointer should change to a double circle with a cross in the centre.
6. Place the ‘cross’ over the blemish and left click your mouse once only and that should remove the blemish.
Note that the colour should be the same as your photograph colour, due to the fact that the area between the inner and outer circle will be selected as the colour for retouching the blemish area of the picture. The area of the inner circle will be filled with a colour blend based upon the outer area and centred around the ‘cross’, so it should not be possible for it to past a colour that is different to the subjects own facial tones.
Tips: If you hover over an area of your photo, then hold down your ‘Ctrl’ key, you will see a small window of the colour you will be pasting.
Also as the area you select for filling in the blemish will change depending upon how large your selection circles are to start with, be sure to change the circle sizes accordingly by holding down your ‘Alt’ key and pushing your mouse forward or backward to change the circle sizes.
To clarify, imagine that your selection area was mole just under someone’s chin. If there was a shadow line under the chin and you clicked on the mole to remove it, you may also be selecting a very dark area as part of the fill colour. So it would make sense to reduce the circle size to a small area around the mole as this colour would be a better match.
Another option is to use the ‘Clone’ brush and again keep your selection area small but only use a low level ‘Opacity’ setting, say around 25%. Then select a similar skin colour area by right clicking your mouse then move over the blemish area and left click as many times as you need to make a good colour blend. You should also play about with the 'Opacity' level when using the 'Makeover' tool as described earlier.
Hope this all makes sense and that I have understood your question correctly.
