Hi i would like to give this model a glamour look, shiny gold skin, etc, brighten this pic as well, im waiting for the ideas, thx

well, heres my crack at the image. i know you asked for some glamour, but im only a beginner at this stuff.

i wanted to add some lipstick, and maybe some eye shadow, but who am i kiddin, what do i know about makeup. =oP

hope more people give this image a try .. id love to see what others can do/create. all i ended up doing was cleaning the pixelation a bit and brought out the eyes ...

Used the retouching tools from 1Click (http://www.1clickactions.com) although the image is a little small to do much with, still here's my 5mins worth :classic:

The image is in a poor quality, but I tried to do something anyway... Here's the result ;o)

I didn't want to make it too unnatural, but those pixels required blurring... Oh, and I thought it would look better cropped.

I took a stab at it, as well. Did a bit of work cleaning up the exposure and complexion with duplicate layers, layer masks, hue/saturation adjustment layers and finally a bit of soft blur. And, yes, a more dramatic crop.

Hi ..... I know this isn't what you were looking for but I liked the feel of this picture ..... just cleaned it up a bit and used the de-grunge skin tut found here...... then cropped it . . .

Beth

Just another fun version...

I know..... enough already....

Here is what I created.
Lightened image with levels and curves.
Cleaned skin
Brightened eyes and etc

Quite a challenge!
So much so, seemed more like restoration / art than retouching.

I just sortta threw eveything at it - twice.

Rô

Tried to keep it as natural as possible...

That's the best one yet..
Very Nice! :bigthmb:
Snook

Gaaahhhhh !!!!! This is addicting.. . just wanted to see her as a redhead or two....

@solitear - best one so far. what technique did you use to achieve that result?

Hi logatul,

Thank you for your kind comment.... I did exactly what Ro did..... "I just sortta threw eveything at it - twice.

Rô"

Actually, I took one of my previous versions on which I'd:

* Used the clone tool (for skin imperfections)
* Did a (probably more than 1) Levels adj. layer for darkening the darks
* I started doing kinda overkill on the makeup since he wanted a glam look by reshaping eyebrows (clone tool) then darkening them..... I whitened eye whites, added the crescent shape lighter area on the irises using a Color Dodge adj. layer, darkened the iris rings using a Color Burn adj. layer, then used another Color Burn adj. layer to darken eye shadow.
* Flattened it all
* Used Ctrl + J to duplicate that layer
* On the new layer I Blurred it using a Photoshop pluggin "namesupressed"
* Then set the blurred layer's Blend Mode to "Screen" and adjusted opacity

Saved that whole mess . . . got to thinking she'd look good with bangs and I took some hair from another photo, copied it to this picture then blurred it's layer til it was somewhat the same blurriness of the blonde lady's picture.

* Flattened everything
* Ctrl + J to duplicate layer
* On dup. layer I used Smudge Tool (set to Darken using high opacity brush)
* Smudged the outline of the new, red hair to soften edges
* Flattened again
* Darkened lips with Color Burn layer blurred a little
* Flattened once more
* Selected lips, copied, pasted
* On that layer used Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap and made her lips shiny
* Flattened then used the Color Dodge Tool set to Dodge Highlights just to add the extra white dot on her lips.
* May have Ctrl + J and blurred that layer but erased over eyes, lips to retain a little sharpness
* Flattened and was done (not counting cropping)

I also did Ctrl + J and set that layer's blend mode to Soft Light with low opacity to make the red head on the right . . .

I'm sorry if I went into too much detail..... I've learned SO much here and just try to say "thank you everyone" by returning the favor whenever possible.

oxoxo
Beth

Tried to keep it as natural as possible...

i really like your works but i dont like that u have changed the nose shape

Gaaahhhhh !!!!! This is addicting.. . just wanted to see her as a redhead or two....

Cool . :dizzy:

Thanks Luchia . . . after being away from this post for awhile, I looked at her again (as a red head) and think I've turned her into a video game character. . . I've been wanting to try 3D stuff so .... hhmmm ......

Beth

a hack at it..

Very nice delic..... I like the look you've given her by taking a lot of the yellow out, too.

thanks beth.. I have been meaning to mess iwth this photo for a while, i just never got to it until now..

a hack at it..

good job! Give some details, pleeease.

Hi Rô,

I really like what you've done "twice" . . . AND I've been meaning to tell you how much I appreciate the tutorial on de-grunging! I tried to do it once before but when I saw that I'd have to mulitply using fractions I um, did that southern, artistic, flight attendant, female thing and ranlikecrazy!!!!!

Then, my engineer husband, explained it to me in "my language" and I have been using the tut on tons of photos....... it's great ....thanks for the lesson and for taking the time to write it all down for us.

Beth