Well, this is my first unofficial challenge for people who like to retouch badly shot pictures of nice models, like my girlfriende here....We were enjoying a ncie time in the living room shooting some nice shoots...I took this picture so there would som degree of challenge for some people in here...Hope you enjoy!

HERE IS THE LINK:(the picture is about 1.5mgb in size)

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/213/jancikelq5.jpg


my version is in the ttachments! What do you think? about my skin details, well I wanted to keep it abit honest....

ENJOY!


Bets regards

Gerry

This is my take...

Here is my attempt... Hope you'll like it

Thought I would give this one a try also

Here is my "glamour" retouch...

I thought I would give it a go too I love glam retouches:)

Well, we already have our share of soft-focus enhancements, and since you said "retouch", I pulled out the plug-ins and had at it!

Here's what I used:

Vertus Fluid Mask (http://www.plugsnpixels.com/fluidmask.html), Digital Anarchy Backdrop Designer (http://www.plugsnpixels.com/backdropdesigner.html), Alien Skin Impact (http://www.plugsnpixels.com/eyecandyimpact.html) and Nature (http://www.plugsnpixels.com/eyecandynature.html), Mr. Retro Machine Wash (http://www.plugsnpixels.com/machinewash.html), Twisting Pixels PixelCreation (http://www.plugsnpixels.com/pixelcreation.html), AV Bros. Page Curl Pro (http://www.plugsnpixels.com/pagecurl.html) and ITC Lucis Art (http://www.plugsnpixels.com/lucisart.html).

It's great fun to head off on a creative journey without knowing exactly where you're going...

My version

My attempt.
Regards,
Dan

And one with a fresher look

Regards Syd

Greetz, mike

Here's my attempt. Still learning.

oltenius, I like your effects--what was your process?

And kudos to those brave enough to address The Mole without cropping ;-).

my version

Larry

Probably a little over-the-top stylised for some, but the plain beauty retouch was a little flat. had to resize to post, second image is close-up of face.

oltenius, I like your effects--what was your process?

And kudos to those brave enough to address The Mole without cropping ;-).
Thank you!
I used a classic method!
Spot healing brush, gaussian blur, highpass, invert, again gaussian blur and plastic wrap.
Regards,
Dan

standard beauty retouch

I'm not exactly Mr. Glam but thought I'd give this the old college try. Nothing fancy, just the usual suspects - degrunge, b&d, clone, heal, etc.

dc

Thanks for the photo to play with.

Used Fluid Mask to cut out the girl and get good hair, Liquify to adjust some features, Surface blur to apply base makeup, Neutral 50% layer for shading and toning, Skin texture mask to place skin texture back in again, Layer masks for blending.

Ray

Here is my attempt.

Judging by the other entries I guess I overdid it! ;-)

Another attempt at it

Hi all,
I'm new here and very new to retouching, but here's my version, what do you think??

My rendering.

A lot of different takes on this.

A lot of different takes on this.

It is different... The photo is looking so much more natural as opposed to a generic "cosmetics add" type of look one gets with standard blur/soften manipulations.

Could you drop a hint as to what you did... Pattern applied by a healing brush?


Pavel

Another version. Pavel

Here's mine..

I would guess what I've done is more photo-art than what most would consider a retouch, however, no doubt its "always" a matter of individual taste and what ever floats your boat. No patterns applied.

*Cropped, straightened and resized the image.
*Black layer under the working layer.
*Soft eraser to blend image edges.
*Hue & sat adj on various parts of face.
*Various amounts of adaptive equalization.
*Painted in shadows with low opacity.
*Healing brush to remove items that make-up would normally cover.
*Contrast adjustments where needed.
*Created a simplified layer under working.
*Some gaussian blur.
*Another hue & sat adj.
*Added noise.

Of course layers and masks were involved and applied to individual taste.

I would guess what I've done is more photo-art than what most would consider a retouch, however, no doubt its "always" a matter of individual taste and what ever floats your boat. No patterns applied.

*Cropped, straightened and resized the image.
*Black layer under the working layer.
*Soft eraser to blend image edges.
*Hue & sat adj on various parts of face.
*Various amounts of adaptive equalization.
*Painted in shadows with low opacity.
*Healing brush to remove items that make-up would normally cover.
*Contrast adjustments where needed.
*Created a simplified layer under working.
*Some gaussian blur.
*Another hue & sat adj.
*Added noise.

Of course layers and masks were involved and applied to individual taste.

LQQKER,

Thank you so much for the "walk through". I do agree, your rendering is a bit out of scope for "glamour retouch" and better fits with photo-art, it's a great work, nevertheless.

Pavel

this is what i tried...

Had fun with this one.

I looked at this as I would do If this was going to be publish on a magazine or an Ad.

I think her expression was not very good, so I changed it a bit to give her some attitude.

Then coloring and crop was a key factor.

I'd love to see some feedback.

cheers

I tried an experiment. I used the original picture that I posted, which I intentionally had texture, just to see how Byro's technique would work with the texture I added.

Simple photoshop techniques with masks.

I'm a newbie to manipulating digital photos. This is the first post of work I've attempted in-order to learn to use the programs I have, this was done in Paint Shop Pro X. I also have CS2 but at this point in my evolution I find Paint Shop Pro easier to use.

I have manipulated the mouth a little bit. .I hope the model doesn't mind..

Greetings from Istanbul..

heres my crack at it ..

this is the version 3

I love your version of the picture, DouDimmez. Really, wow. Looks completely real. I love how you added the teeth -- great touch!

Here's my attempt.

First time doing this, so let me know what you think.

JohnnyC

Tryed to keep it real.

Please tell me what you think

Thought I'd give it a go. Nothing fancy, just some simple healing brush, gaussian blurring on the skin with 50% visibility, dodging/burning and some selective color adjustments.

Beautiful girl and fun challenge!

Beth

I love your version of the picture, DouDimmez. Really, wow. Looks completely real. I love how you added the teeth -- great touch!

Thanks. I took the mouth and the teeth from another fashion shot.

Fun ;o)) I decided to jazz it up some by adding a digital background and giving her a little makeup. As well as Eyelashes.

Here is what I did, what do you all think?

I decided on a more natural look - really just evened out her skin tone to match the rest of her body (the original photo made her face a lot pinker than her body), removed skin flaws, fixed eyebrows and reddened her lips.

beth, i like yours. i can still see the texture of the skin, you've dressed up the eyes and mouth and changed that head piece to a better color. nicely done.

craig

Hey, thanks Craig! Still trying to figure out the whole skin thing.... wish I had CS2 because of surface blur......

Thank you for commenting!

Beth

Well, I've been away and wanted to wait as long as I could...Just to see how many of you guys took this challenge head on....And WOW! The respons was fantastic!

keep em coming!


Should we pronounce a winner later on??? Or should we just let the challenge pass on?


gerry

Challenges dont usually have winners but it would be great to hear your comments on people's work since you started the challenge ;)

i'm with nancyj on this. as the poster looking for help, your 'payment' is to respond to each person that contributed. they WANT feedback, usually.

craig

Nice pic to play with ;)

Challenges dont usually have winners but it would be great to hear your comments on people's work since you started the challenge ;)


Should I respond to every single one??? :scared:

Gerry

hello!


I will give everyone who have made a contribution some words of hwo I liek dthe pictures and/or what they need to fix (IMO)!!!


GERRY

THIS IS WHAT I THINK OF THE DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THE GLAMOUR CHALLENGE! THE JUDGING IS IN THE ORDER OF THE PICTURE!!!!

ZIAPHRA: Nice work, too much glow for my taste, but love the eyes! The picture would hav ebenefit frome the eyse if the whole picture was a bit darker...

I.ILIEVSKI: The brown colour is abit strong here, but nice work on th eyes and the new colour on the headthingy! Cudoz for keeping the birthmarks :)

PETER S: Nice browntan, but abit too much of glow for me! The pictures lacks abit sharpness bcus of it! Nice work :)

MIGUEL: Nice work on the skin, but her left eye is abit to manipulated...I see what you were trying to do...her right was nice, but left eye isn't so good...Nice work only flaw is the eye! Cudoz for the eyemakeup!

PRETTYPIXAL: Wow, this more of a manipulated retouch picture than glamour! You have tried to get a sort of goth look here...It works, but abit much of colouring around the eyes and the iris!

PLUGSNPIXELS: Here is to much of everything! The glamour retopuch isn't following it's right path! More of a experimental manipulation here! Nice try

CASSIDY: Nice work on the skin...The colouring was very good! light and easy to my eyes!

OLTENIUS: A more experimental retouch here...the skin isn't retouche after my standards...But the effect gives a nice felle to the picture, the makeup adds to the weirdness here...Good on ya! Thnaks for sharing :)

CASSIDY: Nice crop here, more details to the head! Nice job on the skin, but people here haven't tried to fix the hairs in her face! miss that!

SYD: Nice eye makeup, the sklin is almost there, abit to much of effect on the retouch on the skin! Some places you see the skin some places not! But a good job by you, SYD!

BADMIKE: Nice skin, abit to much effect...The glow effect isn't for my taste, but it works well...The gloww effect adds areas on her skin looking pale...That's not good! Nice work on the skin!

DWTHOMP: Nice an d clean on effect, but I feel her face it bit weird...there are areas on her skin that looks darker then other areas...Like she is dirty...on her cheeks, round her mouth...Thanks for sharing...

LEUALLEN: The silver feel over the whole picture is great! I feel it's abit too much, the picture lacks abit of sharpness, maybe that's all it takes to get a better version?! The eyes are a nice effect, but would beneift abit more if the picture was abit darker! Very nice job !

NANCYJ: Nice job on the skin, but i feel the dodging here is abit to much! The picture came out like on a plastic model! But I love the skin!

NANCYJ: This was nice also, but teh skin is showing to much effect on the retouching! Thanks for SHARING, NANCYJ!

DKCOATS: Nice blush effect her on the cheeks! The skin retouch is ok! It looks like everyone here today have used the BYRO De-grunge trick! Nice color on the eyes!

RAY12: Nice background! The eyes came out looking abit weird! You have tried to reduce the gap between the eyes and teh edge, but it shows to much! The skin on her shoulders looks very nice, but in her face it's abit flat! Maybe a combination between those 2? Thanks for sharing!

BELLA: Nice work on the skin! teh colour overall is abit greenish! The dodging on her right cheek is ging her face a somewhat dirty feel! Thanks for sharing!

PHOTOVAGRANT: Nice overall light here! abit yellowish! The crop is abit of here...gives her body a wrong feel! her shoulders seems bigger on here right than her left! Thanks for sharing!

WILDDUCK: The lighitng effect here isn't working at all! I would try to make a new background here! But a nice try nontheless! the skin looks ok! The lighing effects is destroying your work here! Thanks for sharing!

PAVEL123: Nice skin job, but too much glow! her eyes looks dark and mysterious! abit scary! Would love to this picture without the glow effect! Thanks for sharing!

LQQKER: A very interesting approach here...scary eyes! But her skin looks very "unstable"...some spots here tha are darker then other areas!§ The crop and bacground adds tention! would love to see a drake version on the face ass well and better retoc8uhing on the face! Thnaks!

PAVEL123: thes to approaches was very white! It looks like you hav tried to make my grilfriend look like a clown that does the mim tricks? Abit more work on the skin and another round the eyes to get more detals...maybe that would help! Thnaks for sharing!


DOUDIMMEZ: Nice work on the eys, but abit more subtle effect would help more! Cudoz for adding teeth! But these tteth diddn't do the picture any good! The mout was too BIG and the angle of the mouth made it look way of! GOOD JOBB ON THE SKIN! The skin colour is too dark! I smell a new versin from you! Thnaks for sharing!

CMYK PHOTOS: Nice backgrounds on thes pictures! And the feel to pictures is very good! NIce job here! But you have narrowed the face down! The face looks looong nad the mouth is too big! Maybe a new version without the narrowing would do better ;) thanks for sharing!

PINDARO: Nice add of attitude here! Love the look of the face! The picture overall is too light! the eyes would benefit the pictuire of the picture is darker! Gives a new version!!!! Thanks for sharing!

LQQKER: This version was better! cleaner and more benefitials to the picture in whole! Very good job! Thanks for sharing!

DESIM25371: Nice skin! But I feel the crop is abit boring after studying all the other pictures here! Thanks for sharing!

GERU: Nicwe work on the background! the facial retouch is abit to strong on the make up! It's all about be subtle ther to the very las detail! Thanks for sharing!

DOUDIMMEZ: Abit of on the mouth! skin is good! the skin in colour is abit dark! Thanks for sharing!

AARONOLOGY101: The skin is good, but a little flat! th crop is very high up,s o abit details on her lower side should be there!§ Thanks for sharing!

DOUDIMMEZ: You are probably the most creative one tha have given your pictures! Thanks for you versjons! This picture is interesting! a nude picture approach! the boddy is a bit big comapring ti to the head here! the colour on eyes are ncie! but the skin colour is too dark! a more subtle effect on you pivtures would do very good! Thansk for sharing!!!

JOHNNYC: The skin is abit falt I would try to take down the opacity here to were you can some degree of skin texture! the makeup is a good try! Thanks for sharing!

GODMOTHER: The mouth is to much manipulated! And you have manipulated the shoulders upwards? It gives the picture a strange feel to it! Nice try! The skin need abit more attention! Thansk for sharing!

BRIAN2: Nice color on her skin! abit more skin work! Overall a nice picture! Thnaks for sharing!

SOLITEAR: The makeup is too strong! she doesn't look real! abit more subtle effect on the makeup! Would add more realism the makeup!The blurriing in the cleeveage is to strong! Thnaks for sharing!

POETIC IMAGE: very nice job on the skin in her face! You have place the model the oppocite way! that is very nice! The retouch and makeup is nice and realistic in my eyes! Very good job! Thanks for sharing!

HYBRIDWIRE: Nuice image, abit flat! would add more "wetness" to the skin! the effect on the iris here is nice! Overall good picture! Thnaks for sharing!

LORELEI2876: Nice skinwork in the face some job on the nose needs more attention also on the body! more redness to the lips! nice touch there! Nice job! Thanks for sharing!

MARIYANA: To much effect on the eyes! it makes them look BIG! Plus for adding puffyness to the upper lip! Abit more work on the skiin! Thanks for sharing!








TOO EVERYONE: THANKS FOR SHARING! Had a very nice time being the judge, so I hope not everyone have felt left outside here! I think I've managed to get everyone who have given their creative work a piece of my mind! Have a nice daY!


Gerry

Thanks for the critique! Was lots of fun... ;o) tell your girlfriend she is a babe... ;o)))

gerry, i hope i'm not too late for the "judging" -- here's mine -- i did A LOT of eye manipulation, no offense to your girlfriend -- she is very pretty -- it just seemed like it was more of an angle type of "gap" -- any way, hope you like it.

marsha

Hey everyone, this is my entry. What do you guys think? I wanted to give it a high-fashion feel, while still making it look natural. Then I did a quick make-up add, to see what I could do with it. I think I gave her a subtle Twiggy feel. At least, I hope I did...

Opinions..?

Looks great TheVeed! Great work on her skin, care to give some insides on how you achieved that? And welcome to RetouchPRO!

Here's my second version with improved skin.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5891/brian2version2jh3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I just dodged, burned, dust&scratched some pores, umm... I dunno, it was a bit of work.

http://edgework.tripod.com/samples/jancikel.jpg

Here is my version of your picture. I've tried to keep it as the natural as possible.

arueff: you've probably maxed out the limit size upload! try taking the file size down to 100kb or something!


gerry

arueff: you've probably maxed out the limit size upload! try taking the file size down to 100kb or something!


gerry

Thanks I've reduced the size and it worked. Hope you will like it.

I have manipulated the mouth a little bit. .I hope the model doesn't mind..

Greetings from Istanbul..

Hi,
Great the idea the mouth. What have you done ? You've used someone else's mouth ?

Well this image has been flogged to death, resurrected and flogged again but going back over the submissions I particularly like the colors in Solitear's one so I thought I would give it a shot with a similiar color scheme.

Syd

...I don't do glamour. I can say that I do like the natural look. This one definitely did benefit from a technique that I outlined here (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=19859574). I also did some healing brush work (kept this to a minimum) in PS and some skin color equalization. Here (http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/9089/jancikelq5ru0.jpg)'s a larger and higher quality version. Attached is a downsized version (did additionally sharpen it since downsizing blurred it a little too much). :)

I just could not resist any longer. Like Ikroll, I don't do glamour but was practicing the degrunge tutorial by byRO. Works great. Thanks byRO for spending the time to document the process.

the de grunge tutorial is very nice with getting some smooth skin, but sometimes using the degrunge tool I tend to get areas in the face that are light and dark...that bugs me...anyone care to shar how I'm messing up with the tutorial??? or do others here get the same thing???


Gerry

One more version !

How'd u do the background? It reminds me of a high school photo, and I wanted to re-create one for a friend. I just left my glamour retouch challenge's background as white.

Third version of the picture.

here is my version, i smoothed out her skin tone, changed her eye color that's always something small that can make a big difference, arched her eyebrows, gave a her a nose ring (she seemed to have this certain "attitude" about her so i thought that'd go good with her), gave her skin a little more color, and intensified the color of the scarf on her head...that's about all, but i think it turned out pretty good..hope you like it
ashley

Good call on the nose ring. It just works. I liked her with brown eyes, more, though, it seemed to fit better.

My Go, hope you like, I used the basics of the DIOR tutorial although I prefer the more natural look.

I like red colours with dark hair so I changed the scarf and the lips.

I've been wondering through all of this how his girlfriend has been taking the makeovers!

I created another one of my "fun" makeovers (I gave her Gila monster skin and a leopard skin top), but I'll only post it by request ;-).

Here is another attempt. Superkoax was kind enough to e-mail me some different pictures of his beautiful girlfriend, and after looking at them, I thought "why not just go for it, just go overboard." I was using one of those hair ads as an example, the ones where the girls are so very retouched, and while you can still see pores, you know that she doesn't look like that in person. So I spent a few hours on this, using Dodge & Burn, Dust & Scratches, a bit of healing to take out her top, and a whole lotta elbow grease.

You can take a look at his first post to see what she was looking like that day (her top, her headpiece and hair, her make-up, etc.) and get an idea of what I started with (they were very similar.)

She has great eyelashes!

What does everyone think? It's my first attempt at this type of retouching.

well done. ;o)

Thanks! Here's a posting of a close-up. There is no gaussian blur applied, just blood and tears.

you did an awesome job veed, it was good to see sometone went a totally different direction with this one :D keep up the GREAT work!
ashley

Great job TheVeed! :grin: What did you use the dust and scratches filter for? And what do you mean by 'just blood and tears? Thanks!

I love it Veed. I am trying your method right now on the original pic. I have been busy on it for almost three hours now and I am not nearly finished. Unlike you I am not including breaks in that time. That is solid work time (or play time, however, you look at it). Also it doesn't look nearly as good as yours. Interestingly I was convinced you had added some noise to the picture but now I see I am getting the same effect from B&D, particularly on the shadow side of the face. I am not sure if this is because there was just shadow noise there before and now it is being exposed because I am dodging it or if there is some other phenomenon at work. It is taking for ages and I still have the whole left side of her face to do. I hardly want to post it now after I see what you have done on the two new pictures. But I shall keep my word and post it. So far I have only used a Soft Light layer to dodge and burn. No clone, no healing brush...nothing else. Excellent work again Veed.

Syd

what do you think i tried to keep it as natural as possible

Okay, well, I finally did it. A marathon D&B session...well, certainly longer than anything I have ever done before. A full five hours. My fingers feel like arthritic claws after all that clicking. Although, not perfect I am quite pleased with the results. It is the smallest Photoshop file I have have ever made. The background original, a D&B layer, a sharpening layer and a contrast layer. Not once did I resort to the clone tool or the the healing brush. All the retouching was done on a Soft Light layer with a 5-10% opacity brush. Nothing more. No blurs, no smudging. Nothing. Honest.

Syd

I tried to make it looks more natural as possible

Syd, it looks great! Good job! Looks just like a glamour retouch job. It's annoying retouching, cuz it's so tedious, but u did a greaaat job.




Okay, well, I finally did it. A marathon D&B session...well, certainly longer than anything I have ever done before. A full five hours. My fingers feel like arthritic claws after all that clicking. Although, not perfect I am quite pleased with the results. It is the smallest Photoshop file I have have ever made. The background original, a D&B layer, a sharpening layer and a contrast layer. Not once did I resort to the clone tool or the the healing brush. All the retouching was done on a Soft Light layer with a 5-10% opacity brush. Nothing more. No blurs, no smudging. Nothing. Honest.

Syd

If I was to claime a winner amongst all the pictures her, TheVeed is def the winner! *giving the trophy to theveed*

He gave the picture a new feel and outcome!


VERY GOOD!


Gerry

Cheater! He had inside access! (Just kidding...) :knockedou

Now that we are done, I will post my Gila Girl for fun.

This is my second post, I'm learning allot from all you professionals. :bow:
Here is what I did, what do you all think? :bow: Do you think I have a future in retouching?

I stole Halle Berry's hat (http://www.theplace.ru/archive/halle_berry/img/halle_berry_mhf51.jpg) and here's what I did with it :)


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Haha, that's hot

Thank you, TheVeed :)

You did a great job too.

NJ SHADOW, you did very well!
The only thing I don't like is that the texture of her skin is lost. But practise makes perfect ;) Keep going :bigthmb:

Hi There

Just joined this site and thougt I'd give this a go. Let me know what you think or could have done better.

superkoax, here's another one I did:

http://theveed.com/pages/room.html#

Thank you, TheVeed :)

You did a great job too.

NJ SHADOW, you did very well!
The only thing I don't like is that the texture of her skin is lost. But practise makes perfect ;) Keep going :bigthmb:
You did a grate job Ying, I really like it. Thanks for your comment, I was having problem to make it 100kb for the web, lost allot of texture. I have to work on that.
thank nj shadow.

Ying that is really good. Love the hat. What a great touch.

Syd

Hi first post.

This is my go. I've been making plenty of tests with this picture for a while now. Took me quite a while to finish. Clone tool for the skin mostly. Comments would be appreciated.

KeoKeo

That has to be my fav version so far, really stunning and very naturally done!

I have just made a minor tweak to your retouched version ----

I added a desaturated layer and then gave it a hard light mix and gave it about 70% opacity, I think I like this lighting affect, I think it adds a little more depth.

James

Hi everyone,
Here is my version of this Glamour shot.

Cheers!
Skyjely

JamesEssex I'm really glad that you like it, thanks. You version is good, I agree it seems to have more depth. I was a bit hesitant to add effects that cover the overall image, because I thougth I would lose control of the details, but this worked well.

Fun ;o)) I decided to jazz it up some by adding a digital background and giving her a little makeup. As well as Eyelashes.

I really like how soft you made the skin and what you did with the eyes.

meh!

i tried

Hi,

Pretty Girl, Nice exposure for skin. Lens is so sharp you're running into trouble with pores. Buy a piece of both black and white netting from the fabric store (about 1/8 inch grid) to place in front of the lens, usually you'll want to use the black, but the white is nice for very high-key portraits. But for commercial shoots you just have to pay the retoucher.

http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jancikelq5abo9.jpg


WHY ON EARTH IS IMAGE CODE TURNED OFF FOR THESES FORUMS !?!?!?!

Hi all...I just joined the board and don't know how long this has been since posted. Anyway, here is my shot at the picture.

http://fototouchup.com/dooglla/challenge2sm1.jpg

Thanks for looking,
Allgood

No blurring or soft focus here.
Skin tone evened out while keeping the texture. Eyebrows raised just slightly and trimmed just a little. Eyes brightened, added to the highlight in the eyes.
Mouth expanded slightly further. Eyelashes darkened, makup more pronounced. PWL over all.
Full size is here:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/nescreation/Glamour.jpg

Better Late than Never - so thought id give it a go anyway , although im lost without my wacom this weekend so made it abit punishing to work on this .

Hey all! I wanted to share my version of the much-retouched girlfriend. I used this picture as my first attempt at using the techniques in Katrin Eismann's book on my own- a lot of cloning, a lot of curves layers, but mostly soft light layers with 8-20% black and white paintbrushing. I love some of the previous entries that took it to a more artistic level, and I think I'll try pushing it a little farther in that direction myself.

here is my version

R.

Well heres my shot..I went for the "extreme makeover"....
Lots of liquify tool..pulling and pushing...tons of Cloning at 60-70%...

Lasa

Hi,

This is my first attempt of a retouch.

Hope it rates to be in this thread.

S.

here is a little work i did on this image

zganie

Hi, my first post here. Might as well contribute :classic:

By the way, the color gets all washed out because i had to export for web. 100k limit on attachments? Thats REALLY low!

Well since I joined RetouchPRO to work on my post processing I thought I would have a go. Here's my newbie attempt, trying for glamour but not plastic.


gaussian blur
skin cleanup
liquify of eyes, nose eyebrows lips and profile
Saturation of lips
Saturation of eyes
Whitening of eyes
levels to fix color
channel mix
D & B
lighten using curves
Cooling filter
a little cleanup using clone stamp and add texture to places its lacking

Hi
Tried to make her look dramatic.
So many steps I could begin to tell you what I did. :tongue: :classic:

woodztream I like the way you cropped it.
Everyone has done something interesting.

My semi-quick and cleaner version of this....curious to know your thoughts. Hopefullly the time spent with Dan Margulis payed off a bit;) I uploaded the image to my server for you to check out.

http://www.atortdesign.com/Retouched/jancikelq5After.jpg

Before-after (http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1747/beforeafterac2.jpg)

Hi! I'm new here..
This is my creation. Hope you'll like it :kisses:

I am just not sure why many seem to be making her skin tone milky white as opposed to normal skin tone values. To me it looks like the life has been sucked out of them, but just my opinion.

..and others will give her an orange colour. I've seen blue versions and also some like to paint her black. That's because some poeple just like it different and don't have to nessasarally like it the way it supposed to be, like you say so.
If everyone thought about it the way you do, every retouch challenge would look almost the same. it's a matter of opinion :kisses:

...that was why I said....just my opinion.

My try on this pretty lady. :wink:

Blending the face in painter.
A new background and a frame.

Here is my try!
Hope you like it... Only 15 minutes of work to do this...
Changed eye color to green just because I love green eyes. Hope you don't mind. The image quality is not the best in this version because of the size limitations (100kb).

Sometimes while glamour retouching people over-edit the picture and by the end the person in both versions of the same picture doesn't seem the same. When working a pictures people shall be reasonable... Do the needed changes... But remember, don't take it to the limit... Usually subtle changes work much better than exagerated ones. This is my personal oppinion.

Figured I would try editing this shot as well.. let me know what you think..

Gave it a bash...

gazzdotcom: looks like she is thinking...



very nice to see all the new pictures that comes out here...the responce have been realy huge! Please keep it going on!


Gerry

She could be so retouched :devil:

saby

Here is my try (http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c98/DaWiel/jancikelq_After.jpg)

DJSoulglo - Very nice. I like the way you kept the skin texture and deepen the shadows. Can you describe your approach?

My attempt. I lost it on the eyes a bit.

im new here.. glad to be here.. check this out

Very good princesstoni.

Very good princesstoni.

thanks a mil cupcake :)

nice, but you can tone down the red colour abit...


Gerry

nice, but you can tone down the red colour abit...


Gerry
lol on the lips right? was tryna be as obvious as possible.. i could do a toned down version if anyone is interested in seeing it :)

please make a toned down version...would like to see it...make it looke overall natural...that would please me :)

Gerry

here u go :)

much better...nice of you to put up the before and after text so I could see witch was edited and witch was not... :tongue: hehe...

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:) this is mine

Here is another attempt. Superkoax was kind enough to e-mail me some different pictures of his beautiful girlfriend, and after looking at them, I thought "why not just go for it, just go overboard." I was using one of those hair ads as an example, the ones where the girls are so very retouched, and while you can still see pores, you know that she doesn't look like that in person. So I spent a few hours on this, using Dodge & Burn, Dust & Scratches, a bit of healing to take out her top, and a whole lotta elbow grease.

You can take a look at his first post to see what she was looking like that day (her top, her headpiece and hair, her make-up, etc.) and get an idea of what I started with (they were very similar.)

She has great eyelashes!

What does everyone think? It's my first attempt at this type of retouching.


OHHH!! i have been looking through and this one is the best!! she looks very beautiful here, but did you get other shots with the shoulders/chest in em? that helps too ;)

Hey. this is my go at retouching. ive been trying it for a while but this is my first forum post. hope you all like it, feedback appreciated
so what i did was:

improved skin tone (i didnt completely remove all of her pores cause i feel that it always make people look awful. like two eyes and a mouth floating in a sea of orange mush)
made her lips more red
added more eye liner
dodged her irises
added blue eye shadow (might be a little too whorish...but whorishness is the new black)
changed the colour of the bandana to blue
increased the contrast of the bandana
changed the background colour to blue
increased shadow levels
i think thats about it

any comments would be really appreciated as im still new at this.
thnx craig

The skills on this forum are insane!
Almost all of the results here are more than I could hope to achieve; however, I prefer the submissions from LQQKER and TheVeed.
Photo art or pure canvas artist, both seem equal to the eye of a great photographer. Maybe we just use the same monitor, but I call it Outstanding!

this is my first challenge so here is what I did.

i just found this site!
it's awesome. its so great to see other people who specialize in this kind of work. this is my first retouching project..

here ya go.

j.

blur, clone, added some makeup, slight color adjusting.

this is my first challenge so here is what I did.
i like the idea of filling out the hair.
it seems like you used the smudge tool on her skin. very rarely this is the best method. try using the clone tool.

Hey. this is my go at retouching. ive been trying it for a while but this is my first forum post. hope you all like it, feedback appreciated
so what i did was:

improved skin tone (i didnt completely remove all of her pores cause i feel that it always make people look awful. like two eyes and a mouth floating in a sea of orange mush)
made her lips more red
added more eye liner
dodged her irises
added blue eye shadow (might be a little too whorish...but whorishness is the new black)
changed the colour of the bandana to blue
increased the contrast of the bandana
changed the background colour to blue
increased shadow levels
i think thats about it

any comments would be really appreciated as im still new at this.
thnx craig

i love the blue blackground. definately makes the whole image pop. id probably lessen the orange/red tint of her skin- seems a little too unnatural.
and sometimes adding a slight blur to the skin makes skin seem softer rather than fake.

Hi this is my one here :cat:

Hope its not too late to join in. I just joined the site today.

Here is my first time.

Sometimes honesty isn't the best policy

Here's my stab at it..... Thanks for the practice

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a398/gmonkeh/jancikelq5copy.jpg

Hi every one im new in here and that's my attempt

another attempt

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/mcennis3/cspringercleanup44.jpg

Here's my go at it. Basically Mizuno's process with a twist or two.

Stosh

Hi, here's mine!

thanks alot for your reetouches, guys and girls! this is great work from all of you! this thread has been highly popular here in RetouchPRO!

Gerry

hello everybody,

í am a new one in here and this is my first posting. sorry for my bad english but i do my best.

[img=http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/9329/try1wd4.th.jpg] (http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=try1wd4.jpg)

Well, here are my first unofficial entries into your first unofficial challenge..
the big versions are at:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5126/colored4webpo0.jpg
and
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1107/jancikelqdarkud4.jpg

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7862/rtp001rtam5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I'm new here, but have been doing photo retouching for a while now. Here is My version of this photo. :)
Feedback would be appreciated!

Here is my try.What do you think?

ok, one last try at this one...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/386790910_b7edbf919c_o.jpg

Hope you like it better than the last one :)

Thought I would join the crowd and post my try.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p261/mkautz59/ver2.jpg


Mike

Here is my retouch of the girl. Retouching should be something that looks natural like it was supposed to be that way. Hope you guys enjoy it. :-D!

Here is my retouch of the girl. Retouching should be something that looks natural like it was supposed to be that way. Hope you guys enjoy it. :-D!

Mike,

I'm always curious when people use comments like yours with regard to what retouching "should" be. I am by far no expert (I'm a cosummate "left brainer" in the Navy who dabbles in photography/retouching as a hobby to release my inner "right brain"), but shouldn't retouching (i.e. photo editing) be based upon either the desires of the client or the retoucher's personal taste/interpretation of the original photo? Retouches range from the extremely subtle (i.e. slight curves, levels adjust) to the explicit (putting a human head onto the body of a cat). While one may look "natural", the other obviously doesn't, but it could be an incredible retouch. For me, there are very few "shoulds" in retouching, but a huge number of recommendations that can improve a retouchers skill and open their eyes to various interpretations of a photo. All one has to do is sift through forums like this to see the amazing talent of many folks...and the lesser attempts of other like me. But I think everyone can learn from the good and the bad and shouldn't (oops I used the word) be locked into "should's"


Regards
Mike

BTW, I did like your retouch. Wish you had posted a higher res version so I could better see all that you did.

Hi there! This is my first post and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to enter challenges. So I apologize if I'm doing anything wrong, but here is my attempt!

Full res
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7650/jancikelq5retouchmichelre4.jpg

I wanted to change as little as possible, and just enhance. Didn't want to change the person, so I didn't really remove birthmarks or freckles. I gave her a little more eye makeup and made her lips a bit fuller. I think she looks best with a natural look.

Comments are appreciated!

Hi peeps, this is my first image post, on Retouch Pro.
comments and critique requested :surprise:

Much fun with this. I do feel the need to tell you that this is NOT a bad pic of a nice model! This is a very good portrait...you captured her expression really well. There is depth in her eyes...a sort of intelligence and beauty. Isn't that what a portrait is supposed to do?

Anyway, this is my version of your girl....



Imagae

TULA: nice picture...thanks!

IMAGAE: nice skin retouch! well, Janicke(the model here) is a very beautiful girl...And intelligent!


Very nice picture!


gerry

I found this earlier today and thought Id give it a shot.
I flipped the image tho as it just seemed to look better and made her look as if she was smiling a little more.

Took the first image and made a mess of it to make a background with a few colors dropped on.

Then set her off to one side.

Here is the full size print

http://mc-ddp.com/images/byLorriLynn.jpg

Lorri

Here's my approach. I used the chance to practise byRo's degrunging technique. I like to go for natural, maybe I overdid it? wanted a fresh look. I'll be grateful for feedback. Thanks

Here is mine,

you can find the original @ http://www.pbase.com/samerj/image/74577979

click ( Original size ) .

Regards

couldn't resist such a lovely photo, criticisms welcome

Thank you for letting me learn and play too.

I showed this picture at a job interview (and the 2nd one I did, which was more 'glammed up' in an early page here in the forum) and they LOVED it

Here's my spin on things...

Phil

Last one. More make up, lashes, closer crop. Used liquify to raise eye brows and create slight smile

Here is my attempt. Brighter background, skin softening, cropping, eye brightening. Attempted to make an improvement, but still subtle...

THEVEED: did you get the job then???


Gerry

This was a fun project, I think I spent the last two hours or so playing around with it. The biggest hurdle I had was some issues with selecting the hair so it wouldn't end up choppy and pixelated. I left some of her pores and what not in her face, just to make it a bit more real.

http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/students/regusj/retouch_final.jpg

hi this his my first post in this forum im a newbey in her and this is a 10 min work at the end of my may day at work i just wanted the picture to look more diferent that the ones i have seen so far hope you enjoy

Photoshop : sorry for the crapy english :(

A little late to the party, this is my standard fashion flesh fix. Eye tuck, dodge and burn. Maybe 40 minutes.

also late , but just wanted to give it a try

Here is my retouching masterpiece.....lol Let me know what ya think

Chad

I tried an experiment. I used the original picture that I posted, which I intentionally had texture, just to see how Byro's technique would work with the texture I added. She looks like a brunette Reese Witherspoon lol...nicely done ;)

gerry, i hope i'm not too late for the "judging" -- here's mine -- i did A LOT of eye manipulation, no offense to your girlfriend -- she is very pretty -- it just seemed like it was more of an angle type of "gap" -- any way, hope you like it.

marshaI like the eyes...what's your method? ;)

Hey everyone, this is my entry. What do you guys think? I wanted to give it a high-fashion feel, while still making it look natural. Then I did a quick make-up add, to see what I could do with it. I think I gave her a subtle Twiggy feel. At least, I hope I did...

Opinions..?I think it looks great, especially the eyes...love the eyeliner...something about the upper lip looks a little off...maybe add a bit more shape to the upper lip? ;)

Third version of the picture.I love how you did the background and lighting...what's your technique?

Here's my effort as a black and white.... :classic:

This is my second try on this picture.I think that this one turned out a little bit better.Thanks to all of you for your input and thanks to The Weed for his picture,i learned a couple of things from his take on this one :wink:

Real simple.
E.

real easy when you already retouching a retouched picture! :D


Gerry

Simple retouch...

I tried to keep it real. Reviews are welcome :thumbsup:

Wow - very nice!

whats do u think?

nice touch up, abit to blurred skin...the makeupa round the yes are very nice...


Gerry

Here my version.

Dan.

Hi There.

What do U think ?I am a student...Tell please

here's my version -- email me if you would like the larger version of this.

Cheers
--Paula

http://www.webspawner.com/users/photochanges/index.html

Here's my attempt.

Hi! I'm a newbie here and this is my first retouch, so I really want to know what you guys think about it...

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5890/r2a1xj9.jpg

I like it (rotten87) especially for your first try at it. Although it's too blue for me --overall -- if you wanted it blue and white change to black and white then add some blue tones to it. But the way you have it just seems too off --sorry

just my 2 cents

I know I'm way late on this, but the photo was too tempting not to play with. I'd love some feedback from the original poster and others!

Thanks! :grin:

Late a bit but I' m new here.
Influenced by Amy Dresser's style

Here is my version i hope you like what i did with her

Below is a link to her on my site as a high res image let me know what you think

http://gallery.chaoticreations.com/albums/Photoshop/Retouching/Jackie.jpg

Here is beauty...
Unfortunately I can not upload more than 100K so it is compressed but for 400x600 ppi it is ok.

Here is Better version...

Hi all, new here...very interesting forum. Here's my first version...

And second...:wink:

Here's my try.
http://web.ist.utl.pt/ist154435/jancikel_t.jpg

I wanted to add some makeup on the eyes, like TheVeed did here (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/attachments/photo-retouching/36951d1158113725-glamour-retouch-challenge-here-challenge2.jpg), but couldn't find any good tutorials about it. What techniques do you usually use for that?

I just do quick mask of the areas I want to change, and then apply curves/hue/saturation/levels, etc.

Or, sometimes I paint directly on. Say, eye shadow, I will paint with a color (say, blue or magenta) set to Multiply or another setting, at a very low opacity.

Try it out and see what works for you.

This is my try:

final in here on my site:
http://www.half-lime.com/uploads3/1377358163463a0bc1efa03-p.jpg (http://www.half-lime.com/cooper/photos/photoshop_effects/tutorials/1960852099463a0bc367266)

Ok, here is my version I hope you like it, this is my first post so please be gentle :)


Ruben

A bit more smile from this lady ......

Hello, how is this?

aw it's cute, ronsotophoto. Different feel. Love the bangs.

Hi every body

See Here

i'm kinda new here......

but i tried....

got a little carried away thou...:)

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n163/lilpinki/Photoshops/jancikelq52.jpg

Hi All!

Just wanted to get in on this awesome thread. Here's my shot at it. I wanted to keep it as natural as possible and not too glamour like. My goal was to really learn the D&B technique as advised by theVEED. (thanks veed!)

Please critique!! I'm sure it could use lots of improvement.

I also used liquify for the jaw just for experimentation. I hope she doesn't mind.

Thanks Guys!!

I think it looks really good. Skin still looks real. Maybe a tip? set the burn tool to about 8% on shadow and go over the pupils and outer iris. Then maybe a little on the eyelahes and brows

thanks for the tip paula. Did the image look flat and lacking of color to you? I thought i added enough weight and color but It seems to have a different appearance in each browser. I attached srgb profile.

any ideas anyone on how to handle that?

I know this is an old post but thought would give it a try also :)

this is my first retouch ever. ive been reading alot of different ways to retouch and here's what i came up with.

let me know what you think.

Another one:



bigger:

http://users.skynet.be/fa318429/vrouw.jpg

Here is my new and final version. I know it's not perfect but it's way better than what i used to do with skin texture. I'm so glad i learned this technique here at Retouch Pro!

here's mine! :grin:

Hi Guys

This is the first time with you, i want to have your commentson this try.

Aren't you guys sick of seeing this picture...???
Everytime I come to this site I see this stupid picture being destroyed by newbie retouchers...
Please lock this thread...
Thank you
Snook
Photoshop. I would be happy to post another picture for you all. What I really hate is that stupid scarf in her hair..UUUUFFFFFF!

Here ya go :)
Before and After (High-Res Link) (http://www.eltunafish.com/retouch/retouch.jpg)

El Tunafish | Professional Design Services
http://www.eltunafish.com

Services:
-Photo Retouching
-Logo Design
-Advertising
-Product Photography
-Web Design
-Printing

Aren't you guys sick of seeing this picture...???
Everytime I come to this site I see this stupid picture being destroyed by newbie retouchers...
Please lock this thread...
Thank you
Snook
Photoshop. I would be happy to post another picture for you all. What I really hate is that stupid scarf in her hair..UUUUFFFFFF!

lol that made me laugh. Especially because you keep coming back to the thread, but cry about having to see it.

Agree. A new photo is needed. How about one that actually has the potential to be "glamorous"?

My version
http://astruts.at.tut.by/video/jancikelq5%20copy.jpg

Just started playing with PS2, and am absolutely loving it!!
This is my 1st post, so let me know what you think, be honest, be brutal, you only learn by your mistakes. The 1st is a little soft, but I still like it.
Thanks

Aren't you guys sick of seeing this picture...???
Everytime I come to this site I see this stupid picture being destroyed by newbie retouchers...
Please lock this thread...
Thank you
Snook
Photoshop. I would be happy to post another picture for you all. What I really hate is that stupid scarf in her hair..UUUUFFFFFF!

larger:

http://users.skynet.be/fa318429/rosegarden.jpg

It's not 'pictures' that limit our creation, it is 'us'.

Hi Snook 305, it is NOT your blood on the wall.... I repeat, it is N.....:) :)

My criteria of a retouch.
Minimally to deform the image.
To make a beautiful leather
To eliminate minor defects
The rest - to a wish of the client.
Leather of the person - its individuality. I always try to leave times and fine hair. Without them a leather unnatural. As plastic.

this thread is awesome!

hey, snook! hehe...sick of the picture, ey? the stupid scarf? Why keep coming back to this post? I have over 200 different retouched pictures of this! I must say that this is getting more and more interesting, since every single picture that people upload is always different! I have plans to take every single picture and put them into one picture! This will be uploaded here, but people keep coming with more retouched everytime, so therefor I wait until this thread is dying...hehe...

Good luck to you, sir! I hope you find peace in the future! it wasn't my intention to start a so popular thread! I like your statement it's your frustrated opinion. charming and abit humouristic as well!

gerry

Here's mine :)

http://www.pbase.com/mister_phillie/image/81475504.jpg

Pretty Lady ... Had fun trying to keep it under 1 hour ... pushes me to try harder and get a little faster ... thanks for the challenge. This is my first post ... have no idea what to expect =)

georgenc: welcome to retouchpro! I like the painted effect! a nice first post from you! all done in 1 hour I bet we will see more good pictures from yoU!

Gerry

Gerry ... thanks for the warm welcome. Guess I should have wrote that I'm still looking to get to the "One Hour Mark" on retouching ... not quite there yet but I'm trying to develop a system like approach to help me keep on track. Don't get me wrong ... there's no short-cutting quality ... just don't want to get lost on one photo for hours upon hours ... I'm sure you family folks know what I'm talking about. If it were up to me I could spend most of my time in front of my PC ... again, thanks ... George

Photoshop ... Hope you will post a new challenge soon ... this is a great platform for anyone wanting to learn/share and grow =)

just for Snook... No Scarf..
Took well over an hour, I am a "newbie" but had fun coming back to this portraiture... Hope I didn't destroy it tooo bad..

Granny

My first entry on this site. Quite happy about the result.

Would love some comments:)

My glamour retouch :)

Hi Gerry, pretty good job, you kept original skin texture and some sharpness (if it is sharp for original size also).
Only one thing, flesh tone is bit dark and you are loosing details in dark areas (hear, dress), so if you make it brighter and keep sharpness and tonality would be great job
Sincerely, GlamourArt

Here you go..

Hey Folks,

here is my try.

- no blurring
- only d&b layerset

http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=unbenannt19kopiecl8.jpg
regards rob

a 5 minute workover - any more and she would look like someone else!

Just a hack trying to learn some new tricks! Let me know what I can do to improve on this edit.

Gerry, kudos to you for starting what must be one of the longest (if not THE longest) threads on RetouchPRO.

Here's another for your collection.

Syd

syd: hehe...I did not think tht I was starting something so big :D

The thing I like is all the new members who have posted their own retouched versions of this picture...

nicely done, syd...

Gerry