Am craving some summer sunshine around here - so I decided to try and create a fake tan (oh, and it looks fake) and sun bleached hair on someone. I've been wondering what a good way was to create a tan, but haven't seen any tutorials. I have seen a few on changing hair color though, but none seem to work if I want to make it lighter. Here is my "attempt" - only sharing in case someone can use what I've found out to create something a little less SCARY!
Before
After
...and here's how it goes - or doesn't:
1. Duplicate layer, set blending mode to multiply and opacity to about 60% and masked everything but skin.
2. Created new layer. Set blending mode to soft light and painted skin with various shades of dark grey. Set opacity to about 75%.
3. Created another soft light layer and painted lighter greys along some areas that still needed darkening. Duplicated layer and set to various opacities until skin looked "tan"
4. To do the hair I set a new layer to soft light and painted the hair with a yellow color. I set the opacity fairly low, and duplicated the layer twice to create a more natural looking light color (I don't think the hair turned out as bad as the tan)
Does anyone know a better way to acheive this look? Help!