How to digitally add body paint to a photograph?

rers0613

I am glad to have stumbled upon this site. Prior to asking this question I searched the internet and did not come up with a good way to do this. I have a picture of a model who I want to "airbrush" or "body paint". I do not know anyone who does this physically so I decided to try my hand on the computer rather than buy the paint and try it myself.

I do not want to add a small amount like a tattoo or something. I want the entire model to be completely covered in "paint".

I know how to overlay an image using the blending option, but when I do so it looks terrible. It will skew the color of the pattern to look almost sepia. I want it to look as real as the image below. Is there any way to do this? Or do I need to actually paint the colors in the program?

An example of what I am talking about doing is located here:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/397642892_d713e5b8c7_o.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hkdigit.net/2007/02/body-painting-blue-qipao/&usg=__4GAdOC2bty3ZgKlOn5McyrCf2gY=&h=640&w=427&sz=126&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=eYm6nTM_uaNIiM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=91&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbody%2Bpainting%2Bon%2Bwomen%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

hawkeye · Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:51 am Post subject:

Likely the best approach would be to paint the colors on a layer and then use a displacement mask to place them on the model.

rers0613 · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:46 am Post subject:

Displacement mask?

hawkeye · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:16 pm Post subject:

The displace filter under distort. It's a bit involved to explain here, but there are tutorials if you Google.
Example:

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