Painter and Photoshop Basic Skin Palettes
December 22, 2008 by jgarcia
Filed under Tips & Resources
Since I re-created my website, people had been asking where my skin palettes are. So, I’ve decided to make them available again here.
Painter Skin Palette
In this zip file, you will find four basic skin palettes: one for light skin, medium tone skin, medium to dark, and the other one for dark skin tones.
Download: Painter_Skin_Palette.zip
Photoshop Basic Skin Palette
In this zip file, you will find a basic skin tone palette and its corresponding grayscale equivalent.
Download: Photoshop_Skin_Palette_Basic.zip
Don’t forget to leave your comments below about these palettes.
Enjoy!
Umm…downloaded them, and got text files. How do I use them?
Instruction for Painter:
Locate in your computer under Program files, the folder where you installed Painter program. You will see a folder named Support Files. Under that folder, there is another folder named Color Sets. You can create a folder there named Skin Palettes, for example; and just drag the text files there.
Then, inside Painter, open the Color Sets Palette if it’s not already opened. Click on the fly out menu (the little arrowhead on the right of the palette name and select either Open Color Set or Append Color Set, then click on the Append button if you want to add the palette to the existing one, or click on Load if you want to load the palette replacing the one you have displayed. From there, navigate in your computer to where you have the text files. If you place them in the folder Color Sets I mentioned in the previous paragraph, which is the default folder for Painter’s Color Sets, you will see your folder there. Select the file.
Instructions for Photoshop:
In Photoshop, open the Swatches Palette and click on the fly out menu (the little arrow on the right upper corner of the palette and select Load Swatches. Navigate to the location where you place the jmg_Skin Palette.aco file. It is recommended to place this file under Presets > Color Swatches folder located in your Photoshop installation folder. Then, just select the skin color swatch name from the widow that opens by default, which is the one mentioned before.
It’s me again. I did get your e-mail, and I tried to answer, but I guess it didn’t work.
The second download was fine with photoshop, but the first .zip file contained ‘text documents’ and not ‘aco’ documents, so I couldn’t open them.
Any suggestions?
You can’t view Painter’s palette by opening the txt file. All you will see is a bunch of code. You need to open them through Painter as I explained int he previous replay (see above) under Instructions for Painter.
Alright! I got the photoshop palette working, and it’sgreat. Thanks a lot!
thanks for the swatches! saved me tons of time in remaking the ones I lost in the switch over!!! again thanks, really.
Relly works, thanks for share. See ya.
Great! Now using your palette for all sorts of illustration purposes. Thank you so much!