matching skin tones

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew of any tutorials on matching skin tones, for example if I wanted to use a persons head from one image and place it onto the body of another.

Several ways to do that..

One, use the eyedropper to get the right color, then make a new layer on top of the pasted skinpart, and fill it with the eyedropped color, and change blendinMode to HUE.

Second way is just to press CTRL+U and fiddle with the hue slider there.

Sometimes the right color won't do it, so you'll need to play around with leverls or curves a bit. And keep in mind to keep the saturation the same on both, perhaps need to tone down / up on either one.

Hope that helps.

Okay, thanks i'll try that.

Another way is to have a reference picture of the desired skin tone you want. Then take the rgb numbers of a 50% area in the skin. Now adjust your curves in the picture you want to modify.

Thanks for all your answers and if any one else is faced with this problem I came across these skin and hair tones which might help http://www.retouchpro.com/pages/colors.html