Haha... yup DK can join teh band now!
Same tricks, just getting better at them I guess.
I found "Vibrance" in PS in combination with Hue/Sat is pretty sweet for matching skin colorz if Hue/Sat doesn't quite do it on it's own. From there I tried to use as much of Ragnar's forehead & then use like a 15% opacity to slowly & carefully feather in where the 2 blended together. I spent a good amount of time blending in around the outside of the whole head, & also had to clone out some of Ragnar's beard in the bottom. I did a couple layers of "Sharpen" as well, as this was a super hi def picture I started with & the original head looked blurry by comparison.
Thanx bro~
I did do something pretty creative with the Fast & furious one... cause shadows were on the left of everyone.... I copied DK's head & pasted it exactly over top of the one below it so I had 2 layerz. I then made the covered up layer really dark. I then I slowly erased the top layer with low opacity settings... feathering it out just on the left to allow that dark under layer to shine through only on that side.
It pretty much mimicked the same procedure you do with "brushing"... but I was too lazy to look into my notes about how to set up & accomplish brushing, so I just figured out a way to work around it.