PS Actions for Unnatural Skintones?

[CuriousB]

I'm wondering whether anyone has made and shared any Photoshop actions for unnatural skintone shades? Similar to Alfi's or Trapping's (pictures below), but in more vibrant shades - blues, greens, purples - anything that would befit an alien skintone really.

Trapping's unnatural shades are rather too subtle for my purposes (an unfinished project for this month's theme).










These are the kind of colours I'm after:




I've been trying to make my own, but the results have been very disappointing, and general colour actions (not specific for skintones) seem to generate too much pixelation.

[AlfredAskew]

I had a spare hour or two, so I messed around with some colors. I tried to stay bright, even though my tendency is towards something less saturate. Maybe you'll get a kick out of some of them?
(Built for S2 base. Use darker for darker, and lighter for lighter. Colors will vary greatly base color to base color.)

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[miros]

Love 'em, Alfi!

[Shien]

Wow, they'll definitely come in handy! Thanks, Alfred ^^

[AlfredAskew]

You're welcome.

[CuriousB]

You're an angel, Alfi, thanks so much - they're just what I needed!

[furbyq]

Those are some excellent actions, Alfi! I do a lot of unnatural skintone recoloring and I'm definitely adding some of them to my spectrum!

[AlfredAskew]

Awesome! Glad I could help, and I look forward to seeing what you two make!

[pinketamine]

I really like them, but specially Stone, it's an amazing shade. I'll definitely use these, thakns Alfie

[nat]

I am amazed! I was trying to recolour my skintones in unnatural colours yesterday and now I have actual resources to do so! I'm happy that i found this thread. Thank you so much
ETA: i tried all of the actions and it seems to me that nebula and electric blue makes skintones look kind of bucket-fill? I tried them on light and dark bases and they look worse on the darker ones. I really love these colours, but i don't know if there is something wrong with the actions, my bases or actions not working properly on CS2?

[AlfredAskew]

Yeah, nebula was the last action I made and I lost steam a bit. I think I should have added another color channel adjustment and reduced the hard light layer by at least half. D:
I'll see what I can do for electric as well, though I don't know off the top of my head what I screwed up there.

I'll crack it open and remake it prettier. Thanks for the feedback!

[grammarchick]

I feel like a moron; I got so excited when I saw the skins I didn't immediately realize they were not actual skins yet, just for use in photoshop. *facepalm*  Does anyone have the actual skins ready for use in the game? They're gorgeous, can't wait to see them on my people.  Thanks!

[CuriousB]

I'm working on it, grammarchick, but I'm as slow as slow can be, so it may be a little while yet!

By the way, Alfi, did you have time to take another look at nebula and electric again yet?

[BerryNooboosRetired]

I got a chance to use the actions to make recolors of one of Lilith's maxis match skins. I didn't notice anything wrong with nebula myself when I used it, though electric did have bucket-fill like problems for me. You can see them on some of my sims here. I'd be willing to share them if anyone would like them, though I didn't use all the actions, just Emerald, Grass, Sunshine, Navy, Powder Puff, Sea Foam, Sorbet, and Stone. Then I made a few of my own colors using them. Thanks for making the actions though. I did need more unnatural tones for skins in my game~

[AlfredAskew]

Can someone poke me about this again in two days? I've got a lot of work this week, but I do want to fix this.