Any thoughts or advice on this retouch ive been workin on?
Would love to hear some coments or advice

Well done.

But notice the color shift in your before and after thumbnails.

The before is tagged sRGB, the after is Adobe RGB. If you were to display this image on a webpage the colors will suffer.

If you want to avoid this I recommend converting to sRGB as a final step just before posting or if you send it out to a photo lab for reproduction.

Otherwise very nice.

Regards,

Michael

to answer your question on your retouch i would say it's nice...the skin looks a bit rough to me...the glasses looks good...the shadow and highlights in the glasses and around the frame looks authentic...but at the same time not...I would love to a bit different fade effect on the white in the glasses I think the reason for it looking a bit fake...I didn't get the glasses at all...hehe...your skin should go trough some rounds of d&b...:D

cheers


Gerry

the skin is a bit rough for my taste as well, but i think you did a GREaT overall job.

good stuff!!