Click on the image or the + sign to view larger image		Cell that makes skin pigment Confocal image of a single, isolated melanocyte. These cells lie deep in the skin and make the melanin pigment that gives the skin its colour. Pigment granules are produced in special, sealed-off parts of the cell called melanosomes (yellow). As these melanosomes fill up with pigment, they move out along the cell’s internal skeleton of actin (red) and microtubules (blue) into the long projections that wind in and out between the adjacent skin cells. The melanin then moves across from the melanocyte into the skin cells. The amount of melanin produced by the melanocytes is what determines how dark the skin will be ­ skins of different colours all have the same number of melanocytes. Credit: Alistair Hume