Add red blotches on skin (Affinity Photo)

[clonkel]

Hi,

is there a way to add red blotches/soreness?

There are lots of tutorials on how to remove it. I have tried lots of options including picking the redness from other skin etc. but nothing that looks very realistic.

 

thank you

 

[carl123]

Can you show us an image (Google) which shows the kind of "red blotches/soreness" you want to recreate?

[clonkel]

@carl123

 

yes here it is. It is more of a slight redness - thanks

[Old Bruce]

Try an HSL adjustment layer. Make your selection with the lasso tool, give a fair amount of feathering to smooth the edge. Now add the HSL adjustment layer and the adjustments will only apply to the selected area. You can modify that later by editing the mask on the adjustment layer.

[clonkel]

@Old Bruce thank you. I did that and added a blend option to the hsl layer to bring the underlying skin through. Then painted over the mask with a dry media brush on low opacity. I have to play around more but feel that I can get there with it. Thank you

[Lisbon]

Try adding a selective color adjustment and Increase the magenta in the neutrals.

[clonkel]

@Lisbon thank you very much - looks ideal

[Lisbon]

20 minutes ago, clonkel said:

@Lisbon thank you very much - looks ideal

Youre welcome.

Glad I could help.