Here is a Picture from Before and after.
so now is it your turn, because i want to see what you do with this picture before. I like to see resultates !

Look this link for the original size of te original picture:
Original size (http://www.clearogen.com/images/Acne_2-2.2.jpg)

Thanks, Ruud

hi everybody, this is my first post here :classic:

Thanks :classic:

gave this 15min....fixed the eyes, the nose and some skin...not happy with the quality, but...

hope u like it :D

Gerry

A very quick retouch job. I didn't do anything, other than clean-up of her face, and making it more symmetrical; no make-up, or anything. I did slightly darken her hair highlight, tho.

This is my rendition. I actually divided her face and half and flipped the (facing the photo)right side and put the two halves together. A little select color for skin coloring and I actually degrunged her three times. Dodge tool to lighten the whites of her eyes and the burn tool to darken the cornea of the eye. Changed the lipstick color to a lighter pink and pub a little light lavender eyeshadow on using a separate layer and a soft brush. After putting the shadow color on I when over it with a smudge tool. Put the new image on the old and painted back the frosted part of her hair on the left. Her forehead is a little narrower that it should be. Used the clone, patch, and healting brush for small imperfections on the face.

dc

I wanted to try this again without using half a face. On this only the eye and eyebrow are borrowed. (right side).

dc

This is how I would do it.

Syd

My way !!!! :wink:

Wow, thanks for the reactions:D! i see much other changes;)!

This is how I would do it.

Syd

Wow How did you do the skin and nose, they are beautiful!

R.

Tried to keep it natural. :) But, alas, it's so easy to get carried away. Didn't take long though -- 20 minutes?

Wow How did you do the skin and nose, they are beautiful!

R.

I use a bit of everything but 90% of it was dodge and burn. For instance, the larger stuff I remove with the healing brush or clone tool then I start to dodge and burn. Mostly I dodge and burn with a Soft Light layer, filled with 50% grey (the only purpose of the grey fill is to provide a backdrop to see your dodging and burning against) and then I use a soft white or black brush with the opacity somewhere between 1-5%.

Sincerely Syd

I use a bit of everything but 90% of it was dodge and burn. For instance, the larger stuff I remove with the healing brush or clone tool then I start to dodge and burn. Mostly I dodge and burn with a Soft Light layer, filled with 50% grey (the only purpose of the grey fill is to provide a backdrop to see your dodging and burning against) and then I use a soft white or black brush with the opacity somewhere between 1-5%.

Sincerely Syd

Hi!

Thanks alot for te infotmation!

R.

Here is my version.
I think the skin is a little soft and the hair kind of looks painted.

Ruud92, how did you do the skin?

Cathy

My version

Here is my version.
I think the skin is a little soft and the hair kind of looks painted.

Ruud92, how did you do the skin?

Cathy

I give Her Face a Gaussian Blur ( 7,3) then i did a new layer with the Face of the original SKIN ( Overlay) Then i did a High pass filter ( 10,0) Over that layer;)! and set him on 70% , and the Face! i did blush on the cheeks, i dont have burn or dodge, because i think that its not necearsy is for this photo;)( i know my englisch is not Really good, so i hope you can understand me!:D)

R.

yay! I love retouching challenges. This one is mine - because of the low quality of the photo, I couldn't do a "realistic" skin retouch like I usually do - so now she's airbrushed to perfection and she's ready for a magazine cover.

Edited to add:
Here's a side by side comparison. In Photoshop 6.0: I used guassian blur/art history tool (several settings: luminosity, overlay, lighten, darken) , several adjustment layers, as well as the magical Liquify tool.

I did a quick mask and gaussian blur to fix the skin on a background copy.
To tweak the eyes I copied them and pasted them to their own layer to whiten the whites and dodge the dark. I selected the nose and did a
tranform perspective on it.

My version

Cassidy, that's really nice, and really subtle. I love that your technique is completely natural, and as though the photo looked EXACTLY like that from the camera, with no photoshopping. Her skin is flawless.

I never tried before using airbrushing for the skin ( only for blush on cheeks) but i'm gonna try now;)

Thought I'd take a stab at this too as I needed a break from a photo I'm working on. :)

Cassidy, that's really nice, and really subtle. I love that your technique is completely natural, and as though the photo looked EXACTLY like that from the camera, with no photoshopping. Her skin is flawless.
Shucks, many thanks Lorelei

my turn...

regards rob

I have alot of things learnd here, thanks.

irshgrlk: Can you post the steps that you did to achieve your "try".
I had problems with dodging the eyes to get a lighter eye so I painted
in some yellow and did a smudge. You got the effect that I was trying to
do.

irshgrlk: Can you post the steps that you did to achieve your "try".
I had problems with dodging the eyes to get a lighter eye so I painted
in some yellow and did a smudge. You got the effect that I was trying to
do.

Unfortunately I've already tossed the file but here is what I remember...

1. Levels adjustment to correct overall tone.
2. Healing brush to remove obvious blemishes and discoloration.
3. Byro's degrunge technique found here (http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=213).
4. Used Photoshop CS2's Liquify Filter to slightly adjust features.
5. Selected a pink color from the lipstick and used a soft brush at low opacity to add blush to cheeks, forehead, chin.
6. Made a quick selection of the iris and pupil of each eye then took the dodge tool (small soft brush) set to midtones and 20% exposure and drew a circle around each eye.
7. Added fake eyelashes to the tops of the eyes using a brush I found on Deviant Art (http://www.deviantart.com). (Eyelashes by Trisste) I slightly blurred and decreased the opacity of the eyelashes.
8. Added a hue/saturation layer with very light opacity to brighten the image and to make it look more contrasty in my opinion.

Somewhere in there I also painted the blond highlights with a color I sampled from her hair (brush set to color) because I think darker hair helps the eyes to pop out more.

Hope this helps. :)

Unfortunately I've already tossed the file but here is what I remember...

1. Levels adjustment to correct overall tone.
2. Healing brush to remove obvious blemishes and discoloration.
3. Byro's degrunge technique found here (http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=213).
4. Used Photoshop CS2's Liquify Filter to slightly adjust features.
5. Selected a pink color from the lipstick and used a soft brush at low opacity to add blush to cheeks, forehead, chin.
6. Made a quick selection of the iris and pupil of each eye then took the dodge tool (small soft brush) set to midtones and 20% exposure and drew a circle around each eye.
7. Added fake eyelashes to the tops of the eyes using a brush I found on Deviant Art (http://www.deviantart.com). (Eyelashes by Trisste) I slightly blurred and decreased the opacity of the eyelashes.
8. Added a hue/saturation layer with very light opacity to brighten the image and to make it look more contrasty in my opinion.

Somewhere in there I also painted the blond highlights with a color I sampled from her hair (brush set to color) because I think darker hair helps the eyes to pop out more.

Hope this helps. :)

Wow, Thanks;)!

R.

Well I tried not to make it too soft and retain much of her natural color

Thanks for all the reactions! :wink:

Well, I'm a bit late, but you know what they say ;)

I did some extreme touch-up, Dove-style:

Well, I'm a bit late, but you know what they say ;)

I did some extreme touch-up, Dove-style:
How dit you do the skin:O?

R.

This was one click on a plugin called "Portraiture"..
I lowered the eyebrow (liquify tool) and clicked "smoothing: medium" on the plugin.. Didn't clone or heal a thing...
It gives you a great place to jump off from...
Lasa

Wow, plug-ins are getting better everyday :shocked:
Where can I get that Portraiture plug-in, Lasa?

ruud92, I did it old-school: some work with the spot healing brush, some with the PWL technique. I also desaturated the reds a bit, then added a warmimng (yellow) photo filter. But it took hours, and look what a plug-in can do in a minute...damn.

If you Google, Portraiture plugin..it takes you straight to it.

Lasa

:)

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Wow that is really amazing!

This is my second post...hope you all like my whack at it!
amy

Looked like a fun image to play with so I decided to give it a shot. I made her face more symmetrical, but not with perfectly mirrored features. I think it looks more natural that way. I sampled from both sides and blended them together to get the final result.

Wow thanks fot the manny Reactions !

Gr R.

Better late than never. Used Paint Shop Pro XI..ran it through barrall distortion filter, levels,curves, hue & sat, applied a custom filter, and high pass sharpening.

Well gave it a try, does it qualify as a glamour retouch? - I don't know!

Here's my version.

Silvia

Here's my version.

Silvia

I totally love the way you did her lashes and eyebrowes.. :thumbsup:
Care to enlighten us? :kisses:

Oh Thanks SeculaSeculorum!

The eyebrow is copy of her natural brow (the one that's on the left if you're looking the monitor), the same with the eye, just change them a little with liquify taking care of looking natural.

The eyelashes are a trick, I have my own way to make eyelashes but this time I'd found an eyelashes brush set and I was trying them, I like the results but they need to be adjusted with liquify and eraser tool to match the eye.

You can find the brushes on Google.

Hope this helps.

Silvia. :wink:

Who says this lady needs retouching? Looks fine to me. :D

Steve

well, i was pretty bored and went crazy but i think she looks really pretty :D

Oh Thanks SeculaSeculorum!

The eyebrow is copy of her natural brow (the one that's on the left if you're looking the monitor), the same with the eye, just change them a little with liquify taking care of looking natural.

The eyelashes are a trick, I have my own way to make eyelashes but this time I'd found an eyelashes brush set and I was trying them, I like the results but they need to be adjusted with liquify and eraser tool to match the eye.

You can find the brushes on Google.

Hope this helps.

Silvia. :wink:


Awh, great! Thanks :kisses:
I'll go and look for them straight away :cool:

Wow, thanks. i tought that it was over with tis thread haha,

Gr R.

Hello All ,

Urgently I need some good quality eyelash ...

Thank you very much for your quick reply .

Ozzy :bigthmb:

Google... eyebrow brush or eyebrow brushes... download them.

Silvia.

they are all free

http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/applications/psbrushes/?catpath=resources%2Fapplications%2Fpsbrushes%2F&order=9&alltime=yes&q=eyelashes

Ruud

I wanted to give her a j-lo glow and not over do it. You know that latin glow, flawless yet flaw full.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=6ag2gk9