{"id":12146,"date":"2010-08-05T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-get-a-tan-in-photoshop\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:11:47","slug":"how-to-get-a-tan-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-get-a-tan-in-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Get a tan in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I don&#8217;t really like going to the beach<\/strong> (sorry, I just can&#8217;t stand sand!) which means I stay quite white-skinned all throughout the summer. Luckily now I&#8217;ve learnt a Photoshop trick that lets me get a tan in under five minutes &#8211; without all the risks of staying under the sun. It won&#8217;t have any effect on your skin in real life, but at least it will prevent you from looking like a ghost in summer pics! So, here&#8217;s how to <strong>obtain perfectly tanned skin in Photoshop<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/tan8.png\" alt=\"Get a tan in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>1.<\/strong> First of all, choose the photo you&#8217;ll be working with. In this tutorial I&#8217;ll use this picture by <strong>ninaj<\/strong> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/896546\">Stock.xchng<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/tan01.png\" alt=\"Get a tan in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Now you need to select all the skin areas in your photo. There are many ways to select stuff in Photoshop &#8211; the Polygonal Lasso Tool, the Magnetic Lasso Tool- but in my case I simply switched to <strong>Quick Mask Mode<\/strong> by clicking the highlighted button and started painting all over the skin area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/tan02.png\" alt=\"Get a tan in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> When I was done, I switched back to <strong>Normal Mode<\/strong> and inversed the selection. There! Now all the skin in my photo is selected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/tan03.png\" alt=\"Get a tan in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Press <strong>Ctrl+J<\/strong> to copy the selected area as a new layer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/tan04.png\" alt=\"Get a tan in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> With that new layer active, go to <strong>Image &gt; Adjustments &gt; Levels<\/strong> and adjust the central value until you obtain the tan you&#8217;d like to have. In my example, 0.55 was the right value.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/tan05.png\" alt=\"Get a tan in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Now go to\u00a0 <strong>Image &gt; Adjustments &gt; Brightness\/Contrast<\/strong> and adjust also these values to get a more realistic result.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/tan06.png\" alt=\"Get a tan in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> Done! You have a <strong>perfect tan<\/strong>&#8230; without having to deal with annoying sand, sun tan lotion and kids yelling and running around.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/tan7.png\" alt=\"Get a tan in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really like going to the beach (sorry, I just can&#8217;t stand sand!) which means I stay quite white-skinned all throughout the summer. Luckily now I&#8217;ve learnt a Photoshop trick that lets me get a tan in under five minutes &#8211; without all the risks of staying under the sun. It won&#8217;t have any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-get-a-tan-in-photoshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to: Get a tan in Photoshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334828,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions\/334828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}