re: Greetings from the Hokie Nation

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johnnydrama

Pain Train, you absolutely rock!

I'm glad you're on my side.

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Thanks for the compliment. Glad to be on your side.

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VTSmitty

Pretty Awesome, dude! And much thanks

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Thanks, and you're welcome.

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vtdad

Great work Pain Train...I had trouble with the shadow of the hat!!!!!

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Thanks. I used a different source pic so I can't say how my shadow would have come out with the one provided in the OP.

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kevol80

How did you make his hand black? When I try to change skin tones, it never looks that good.

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It was a multi-step process and, unfortunately, I don't remember the exact steps. I know I always start off with the hue to see what that can accomplish. Sometimes just tweaking it a little bit can really matter once other alterations are made after that. Then I like to play around some with the levels and then, in this case, I remember I used the color balance to take out some of the red. I may have even slightly altered the brightness & contrast to finalize things. Of course, there is certainly the possibility that I did something else somewhere along the way, too.
Next time I do a skin color change, I'll try to remember to write down exactly what I did.