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Good effort, it's got great potential. I think it looks more like a 3D program than a real human, tho. The texture of the skin looks very fake and doesn't really seem to represent real human skin. It looks very even-lit throughout, which isn't your retouching, but more of the original photograph (lacks a lot of shadow/shape.)

Try looking at beauty magazines for examples of great skin retouching. Usually magazines like Elle, Cosmo, and such have editorial pieces on make-up, which usually feature close-up shots of skin. Those have great skin texture on them, which you could learn a lot from.

Hello Godmother

Very nice attempt here. A little to sharp around the eye though. To crisp looking.
If you are going to add a texture over the existing skin, be careful which defects show through. If they are to faint it can really mar the look of whatever you are trying to achieve.Even if the texture is fake looking.

The original lighting on the image was pretty good for a beauty shot. What you did changed the look of the image. You should always try to keep the original intent.

This look has been around NYC for a number of years, well not just there, and it is starting to fall out of favor. Don't get me wrong, if it is asked for it is great. But there is a big swing the last few years about retaining as natural a look and feel as possible.

Good Luck!

Chris

I think the skin-tone could use a touch more magenta - with the color and slight shimmer of the skin, she looks a little like Data from star trek. Have you elongated the face? It looks a different proportion to the original. I think you've done a good job with some very bad skin, but without seeing the full res original, its hard to say if you could have done better.

I'd agree with NancyJ here, looks a little beige to me

It depends on the look you are trying to go for. Personally I don't care for this style much, but if this is the style you are going for it looks good. The skin is a little plastic looking, but maybe that's part of the effect you were trying for?

what a great shot!!

but i agree with elohssa, way to heavy for my taste. the skin looks really thick, and the texture looks a bit to much on the orange peel side ... not as soft as it could be.

Hey Godmother, I like what you've done.

What were some of the steps you took to get the skin to where its at right now?

Rocksteady,
Danno~

It's a weird one....

It seems as though you've added a texture to her skin, that wasn't there before. It's insanely even everwhere in the face, even though in real life it wouldn't be that way.

It's good to have so much texture in certain parts (chin, etc) but on the nose like that.... It just feels really fake.

Take your end result and place it over the (fixed big things) original and just mask it out... 20% overall, and 60% in certain areas.

It's a weird one....

It seems as though you've added a texture to her skin QUOTE]

I didn't add texture, it's the original skin texture a little magnified :)

see? http://www.nrtretouch.com/Samples/Grace.html

[QUOTE=DJSoulglo;154264]Take your end result and place it over the (fixed big things) original and just mask it out... 20% overall, and 60% in certain areas.

That's a good advice I was going to do that but the image has been published already so... I can't touch it now.

Thanks for looking

i like the result, maybe a little color adjustments as mentioned before but everyones taste is different. anyway I wanted to ask something (seems to be right place to ask :) are there other ways to add the details (skin texture) back except highpass filter?

Need color adjustment but Overall you did a great job...

I think it's great. Wish I could achieve such texture. To me, it seems to flow beautifully with with the contours of her face.

Adding the texture was a great improvement, although if I were you I would make it a bit lighter & more subtle around the cheek area in particular; at the moment it's a little bit too pronounced. Otherwise- great job! :pleased::thumbsup:

Really nice seems like some effort went into creating it,I personally like it.The thing is did you achieve what you set out to do and only you can answer that
also whats the end use going to be for the photograph I think these are always important questions one should always ask of themselves

just my opinion zgane

Without knowing the look you were after, my first thoughts were that this does not look natural or real. It appears that some type of blurring was done to selective skin areas, with a texture added afterwards. That aside, the idea of retouch (in my head) is to enhance an image...cleaning up the skin is only portion of the work, and the image as a whole does not seem enhanced. Just a few areas of note: the area around her eye does not match the overall skin texture of her face. You have lost definition along her upper lip, the highlight under her nostril and around her eyes is too sharp in contrast to the overall sheen, and overall, the skin color and texture is much too uniform and looks very much like a mannequin.
I hope you don't find this too harsh, but it seems rampant in "skin smoothing" threads that the image as a whole is not addressed, it is merely about the skin. Good skin is fine, but skin itself, is not what makes an image work, it's just one part of the process. In the end, it won't matter how great the skin looks if the rest of the image falls short.

I think it's really cool, and I agree it also depends on what look you're going for. It looks like the emboss technique skin. I'm surprised that's a real skin texture as it looks really fake.

Maybe it would be much better if the skin was a bit softer to reduce skin texture.

Hello Godmother

Surprised just check your work very good skin lustre no wonder you told me my work was crap but personally for me I wouldn't want my pic to look like this it's a bit dolly skin for me i prefer the natural look even with tiny bit of pimples but for the perfection people want out there you've achieved a good job.

hope you don't mind my critique

regards



sergio

i am not a bloke by the way just incase, i had the feeling you thought of me as a man anyway thats all behind me now.

I think your work looks great. It looks like it could be a dior or chanel ad. Are there any tutorials that you followed to get this type of workflow?