For my portfolio (again)

I know it's a nude, but nothing can be seen
What do you think?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/348231200_6135036cc2_o.jpg

Original from the talented Q http://www.quocvo.nl/

Normally I dont like over-smoothed skin... but that retouching is great! As opposed to most ultra-smooth skin which looks like a face painting put on top of a photograph, yours looks like an intentional, otherworldly concept.

Can you give any workflow/technique tips?

To my untrained eye, it looks like you've gone too far in reducing her color. She was too red to start with, but now she looks very pale.

It's mostly dodge and burn (Face, body and Hair)

hair was retouched with a mask turned up the saturation and the magenta in the reds (Selective Color)

The body skintone was altered using selective color (- 70 magenta -80 black -15 Yellow aprox)

Also Hue/Saturation tu desaturate the reds a little.

The eyes were sharpened and altered with curves. and dodged/burned with a very small brush.

To my untrained eye, it looks like you've gone too far in reducing her color. She was too red to start with, but now she looks very pale.

Yes, It was what I wanted... to make her pale, almost white, without desaturating the skin

Well done Godmother, think you have achieved your goal

Well done Godmother, think you have achieved your goal

Thank you very much. Hope the biz think so too. I need more work :)

Very nice, but the nose could do with some work. You've lightened the shadowed areas, particularly the nostrils, where even on pale skin, they should be dark.

Very nice, but the nose could do with some work. You've lightened the shadowed areas, particularly the nostrils, where even on pale skin, they should be dark.

Thats all you have to say? You are my favourite critic :)

Here go have some more for my portfolio, bring it on!

Retouched:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/348627617_ce17fa2afc_o.jpg

Original from Q
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/348627619_1298fe392d_o.jpg


Here you can see the full retouch of the redhead:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/348248701_7d7c7faced_o.jpg

Sorry hun, I was posting in a rush - I'll look at them properly in the morning.

Another Style for the same portfolio.

This was a request from a client: He wanted airbrushed look but with pores and texture.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/351952941_41be98fd56_b.jpg

Photographer: Glen Grant
Model: Lauren

Can we all practice & post our results with these photos?

Can we all practice & post our results with these photos?


As long as you don't post them outside Retouh Pro and even here if it is outside this thread (always in retouchpro) you have to credit the photographer and the model and link back here. No problem. :)

Really like your work, especially on the redhead. Is it too much to ask that you post the link to your Flickr page? I'd love to check out some more of your stuff...

Lovely, awesome skin tones you created. I love it. If you wanna you can email me and we can trade some tips, tricks and critique some stuff for each other some time.
Chris
cwaltersart@yahoo.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetlight/

>>>>>It's mostly dodge and burn (Face, body and Hair)

You smoothed out the face by just dodging and burning? Lightening and darkening? I don't see how.

whoa .. that chick on the bike looks like a dude! but nonetheless .. nice work.

=o)

you can check out some of my stuff at www.xanga.com/aaronology101

enjoy!!

>>>>>It's mostly dodge and burn (Face, body and Hair)

You smoothed out the face by just dodging and burning? Lightening and darkening? I don't see how.

Joey, "mostly dodge and burn" still leaves room for color correction and mole removal by other means, but dodging and burning is the technique she says she used, and it obviously works beautifully. I'm posting my effort at dodge/burn using curves as set up by Doug Nelson in one of the threads I linked to about dodge/burn technique -- if anyone laughs at my efforts, I won't mind because I know that I don't have any skill at doing this, but I think my short time working on the image does show "a change in the general direction of the goal". A person who knows what they're doing can change facial contours, make skin appear smoother (I'm guessing that reducing the contrast between dark/light pixels helps make this look possible). I have learned that I would soon go blind and lose feeling in my hand if I had to do this work on a regular basis, and that those who excel in this field are to be commended on their skill, patience, and understanding of light/shadows. Joey, give this image a try if you are still interested in learning to work with high-end images of beautiful women. [I'm just happy to see that beautiful people have some flaws that need fixing.] ;)

Hey Godmother.....i personally like your skinwork a lot better when you don't use degrunge, or at least less evident. I think you can smooth your skin pretty nice without it. i also like the look you have going on with the redhead. the area abover he elbow looks a little weird, where the shadow and highlight meet abruptly, starts to look sharp, like something under her skin bulging out.

i played with one of your images skin a little bit, just smoothed it out a bit and colored, a little quick reshaping also! i would fix the corner of her mouth on your after version, looks like a blemish or something, kinda distracting.

2nd shot was just a different background, high school protrait maybe!

only my opinion.

Yes I like your skin work, I like brighter pics though.

I haven't seen this thread in a long time.

yea, i tend to be on the dark side.

Really like your work, especially on the redhead. Is it too much to ask that you post the link to your Flickr page? I'd love to check out some more of your stuff...

Sure http://www.flickr.com/photos/nataliataffarel/