How do you darken someones skin in photoshop cs3 extended?

Question

I am trying to tan my sisters insane whiteness!!!!

HELP

Answer 1

Ha ha, I have the same problem... a white girl to the bone.  ANYWAY... there are always several ways to accomplish something in PS.  Here is what you should try.  Click on the eyedropper, and select the color from the swatches.  You probably want a light brown.  Then, click on the paint brush tool.  Before you start painting, you need to lower the opacity and flow. If you do not do this, and start painting your sisters legs, it will look like you used a magic marker.  But when you lower the opacity it is still brown, but somewhat opaque so you can still see through it.  

Another option is to go into Image>Adjust>Replace Color

Then, you use the eye dropper on the skin tones, then adjust the sliders - like take the lightness to the left to darken it.  This may help a little bit. But if there is any variation on the skin tones, or anything else in the picture that is just as light or so, it will also adjust it to be darker.  

Thanks for reading!

Answer 2

All you need to do is mask the area you want to darken.   Go to Image-Options. From the menu there are several options. ie:Levels, or variations just to name a few. But I sugest Curves. It seems to do a very godd job.

Good luck.