Learning remove face paint in Adobe's Photoshop Elements can build your appreciation for, and understanding of, color theory and apply this theory to retouching digital photos. You can remove face paint with Elements by using the program's painting and color sampling tools on a transparency-like image plane called a layer. Element's "Eyedropper" tool provides the colors you need to remove the face paint.
Instructions
1. Click the "File" menu, then click the "Open" command. Navigate to a digital photo on your PC that shows a figure wearing face paint. Double-click the file to load it into Elements.
2. Click the "Windows" menu, then click the "Layers" item to display the Layers window. Layers are virtual transparencies you can paint on without disturbing the layers underneath.
3. Click the first icon above the single layer listed in the Layers window. This runs the "New layer" command which adds a new layer atop the current one holding the image you loaded.
4. Click the magnifying glass icon on the tool palette on the left side of the screen to run the "Zoom" tool. Click the mouse on an image portion showing both face paint and unpainted skin, then drag a short distance to enclose the portion just described with the selection region's moving, dashed rectangle. Elements zooms your view into the region you selected.
5. Click the "Eyedropper" icon from the tool palette to run the "Eyedropper" tool which samples color values from your image. Click an image portion showing some unpainted skin that's close to the painted skin. Elements loads the color you sampled as the foreground color with which to paint.
6. Click the "Paintbrush" icon on the tool palette to run the "Paintbrush" tool, then drag on a small area of the face paint near the spot you clicked with the "Eyedropper" tool. The paint changes to the color of unpainted skin.
7. Repeat Steps 5 and 6 to replace other painted parts with an unpainted skin color. If you need to change the color only slightly, click the upper color swatch at the bottom of the tool palette, type new numbers for the "S" or "B" text boxes -- "S" stands for "Saturation," "B" for "Brightness" -- that are slightly higher or lower than the existing ones, then return to painting. These color components determine the richness and darkness of the color with which you're painting.
8. Right-click the new layer you added in Step 3 once you've replaced all the face paint. Click "Merge down" to embed your brushwork into the original image.
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