Hi,

i'm new to this forum and need some help with a picture.

Maybe some of you could give me some inspiration, what to do with that pic :)
I have some ideas how to retouch it...but i'm interested in some other opinions...

Feel free to experiment with the pic and repost it to the forum.

Full size:
http://s3.directupload.net/images/070730/293ZDAI8.jpg

Greetz
Novi

Greetz, First of all, welcome to RetouchPRO. :-)

Your photo needs color correction. There is a definite greent color cast and is very flat. I did a levels adjustment to correct the green cast and reduced the resulting harsh reds with a hue saturation in the reds by shifting them more towards yellow.

This is my try. Very lovely young lady.

-I used a 3rd party filter for color correction.
-Reduced some of the redness in the face--at least it was on my monitor.
-Enlarged the pupil in the eyes.
-Smoothed the facial skin texture.

dc

Hey novi, nice photograph, did you snap this one?

I gotta tell you, I didn't do a whole heck of a lot with this photo, because your subject is a naturally beautiful young lady. The consensus is that the photo needs a slight colour correction, simply because it has slightly more green/cyan in it. All I did was colour correct, adjust the pupils, and soften the face slightly.

Here are the stages I took to adjust your photo:

- After colour correcting, create a new layer
- Using the Paintbrush tool, paint in a pupil roughly the same size as the one in the photograph
- put a smaller white dot in the black dot (to resemble a light) I did it in the upper left corner.
- I dropped the opacity of the layer to about 60% so that the layers below would be visible, and so it's not such a harsh black dot.
- Make duplicate layer of the master
- Make a selection of the face
- Mask the selection of the face
- Put a Gaussian blur on the duplicate (masked) layer
- Paint the mask so that the eyes, brows, hair, mouth, etc. are not effected by the Gaussian blur.
- Adjust the opacity of the duplicate (masked) layer, so there is the appearance of a slight softness. Mine was dropped to 48%

I hope this works out for you, and if you have any more questions, don't be afraid to ask!

Welcome, here are a few steps I took...

1. Color correction as picture is too yellow (also used a selective color adjustment layer with mask to get rid of some of the redness in the face)
2. Healing for the few blemishes
3. A VERY light skin degrunge (tutorial in the tutorial sections)
4. Played with brightness & contrast to make it pop

And my result...

I did pretty much of the same. Adjust color. Darkened the face some and adjusted the red. Softened the blemishes some

I..
- corrected the green color cast 'by the number's' using the wihte and blacks of her top
- curves to darken the light BG
- enlarged the pupils & saturated the colors of her eyes using masked duplicate layer in Overlay mode
- matched the overall skin tone by painting on a blank layer in color mode with a low opacity brush and Paint With Light II action (atncentral.com)
- softened her skin with Kent's Skin Fix action from http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm
- sharpened and added a vignette to darken the borders.

Hi Novi. Welcome.

Pretty girl. I gave her my whole beauty treatment. Biggest problems to overcome were flat, hot lighting and color bleeding from ambient surroundings.

Hey Folks,

thanks alot for your comments and your work... I love the diffent versions.

@DCobb: Thanks I will give your compliment to her ;)

@Nikolas: Yes, it's my shot...we do a long shooting outsite. I got arount 80 Pics of her... the green cast is because of the green gras and the sunny day :(

@Lonk
I luv your version... maybe a bit to perfect ;) but excellent work. thanks

Maybe i will post another pic of her to the forum to play with... so i can get more inspirations from the forum.....

Greetings from good old germany...

Novi

I cropped this one so I could post a larger version without losing too much quality.

Syd

Hey Syd,

this version is beautiful. Her eyes are getting more interesting.
i think she will love it :)

thanks alot

Novi

It's my pleasure Novi!:)

Syd

HI

I tried to give her a little glamour treatment

removed blemishes, hot spots on face
lightened eyes
added eyelashes to fill in
darkened lips
blurred background
sharpened
color corrected

Hope u like!

also included a close crop so you could see the face

Hi - I wanted to give this a try too. Very nice photo.
I used a chanels adjustment layer set to luminosity monochrome checked to reduce the red. Then lowered the opacity of that layer.

quick 3 minute job.. various custom actions that soften skin, highpass filter, add contrast then desaturate, color filters ADD yellow that make the image look surreal, etc etc

Here is my try.

Color Correction
Cloned away a few blemishes
Added hair
Curves for contrast
Sharpen

@keiser
your skin work is very good...i like it...but (on my screen) i got a little red cast on your version. do you have calibrated your screen?

@CathyH
nice beautywork... i love the contrast in your version

@Hargoth
yeah, thats the things i want to see :) i luv the reflections in her hair with that strong contrast. also her skin got a darker tint... thanks alot!!

@bella
thanks for your nice and decent (i hope this is the right english expression) work

Thanks,

I might need to look into calibrating. There was no red on my end. Glad you liked it.

I might need to look into calibrating. There was no red on my end.
Yes it's quite a problem when posting images around here. What was perfect on your screen, suddenly looks "gawdy" (much too red) when posted.

- Try the colour option "Don't colour manage", and then save using the "Save for Web" command (<Shift><Ctrl><Alt><S>).
- If your colours are about right, there's a button at the bottom of the "Save for Web" screen where you can "try out" the image in your browser.
- Also, after uploading to RetouchPRO, you can click on your image in "Manage Attachments" and see how it's going to look.

Here's mine. Did a lot of little things. Also rotated and cropped (had to clone a bit of tree).
Tried to be a bit more "natural" than "glamour".

Rô

Hi Novi. Welcome.

Pretty girl. I gave her my whole beauty treatment. Biggest problems to overcome were flat, hot lighting and color bleeding from ambient surroundings.

now thats what i call a touch-up!! awesome job LonK!!
whats your whole beauty treatment? care to share?