I suck at photoshop.

[Brian Wolf]

As the subject line reads, I suck. Granted I have never taken any classes on it or really studied it or anything, I have just been playing around with it as a hobby.
Anyway, I am looking for a few pointers when It comes to color correction.
in this image I tried to place a photograph of Ian's face on a drawing of Jesus. I know that is always difficult to pull off anyway, but my concern isn't that it looks fake, (that makes it funnier in my opoinion, but that I could not for the life of me get the color on his face even close to the color of Jesus's skin.
I tried everything I could think of.
Is there a trick or a tip anyone knows of to do this easier?

[bonerjoe]

Mail the PSD to sales@petmeats.com

[Russ84]

Mail the PSD to sales@petmeats.com

bonerjoe I'm surprised you're not selling any t-shirts on that site.

[fourthgeek]

perhaps the fact that the face is as dark as night but the body glows with holiness. it'd be a good start to make them about the same brightness level.

then you've gotta make the hair and beard go on top of the face, not behind it.

[bonerjoe]

bonerjoe I'm surprised you're not selling any t-shirts on that site.

It's not for profit. I would be selling out!

[Brian Wolf]

bonerjoe I'm surprised you're not selling any t-shirts on that site.

It's not for profit. I would be selling out!

You own petmeats?

[bonerjoe]

You own petmeats?

They're about to be if they don't keep swatting each other on the ass.

[Puke]

The graphic video didn't work on the website.
I demand violence.

[bonerjoe]

You broke something.

[Russ84]

The graphic video didn't work on the website.
I demand violence.

I've noticed it doesn't work in some media players. It only worked for me when I played it in VLC Video Lan.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

[Puke]

Too much work.
Thanks though.

[Russ84]

He does look a little sick there.

[Brian Wolf]

Too much work.
Thanks though.

Good one!

[bonerjoe]

I've noticed it doesn't work in some media players.

I think it just doesn't like to be streamed. I'll have to fix it.

[She God]

Wow, this came out a lot better then I expected. The trick is to use brightness and contrast just enough to make his face lighter, without making it look totally washed out. Mines a bit washed out, but I'm sure with a longer bit of twiddling someone could make it match more perfectly. It takes more tweaking then I spent on it.

What I think really tries it to the photo to the image is that I drew on his face to try and match it with the actual painting. I color selected the lightest color on his neck and drew some highlights on his face. Be sure to Gaussian blur it too, It's  important because it smoothes out the face a bit. (Upping the contract makes it look ugly) And then I did the same for a few dark spots. It isn’t a perfect match, but it's a hell of a lot better then it was before.

I also used the liqify tool just a  *tad* bit to make the beard look more like it was part of his chin.

Here is my photoshop file so you can see exactly what I did. That way you can try it yourself and make your version a bit better. Good luck. Remember, to stop sucking at photoshop all you have to do it keep working on stuff. Even I'm not too great when it comes to realistic photo-manipulation (I'm more comfortable at abstract) but when you do lots of little things like this Jesus, you can't help but get better over time.