Hey folks,

retouch of a woman. C&C welcome...

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/681/oma1ij5.jpg

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6497/oma2xr0.jpg

regards rob

to me it looks like you turned a woman who has lived some life into a 12 year old boy. It seems over the top for me. Maybe if you dialed down some opacities and brought back some of her character. It looks more like you wanted to practice skin texture replacement.

Here is my take on your photo.


Hey folks,
retouch of a woman. C&C welcome...
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/681/oma1ij5.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6497/oma2xr0.jpg
regards rob

My try... with lighten darken and dodge and burn layers. No where near done but a start

Butch

www.lancea.net/retouch.jpg

here is my take on it

My try.

http://www.pbase.com/image/90871121.jpg

Ronny

to me it looks like you turned a woman who has lived some life into a 12 year old boy. It seems over the top for me. Maybe if you dialed down some opacities and brought back some of her character. It looks more like you wanted to practice skin texture replacement.

actually I wanted to practice my skin retouch skills. Thanks for comments.

Actually I think you did well with the work on the skin.
Unfortunately the image lost something because the work on the skin was so "polished".

I would recommend that you try to keep the "character" of the person.

Just my two cents

actually I wanted to practice my skin retouch skills. Thanks for comments.

thanks for the the comment

the important question here was, What where you aiming for, if it was to give this portrait back to the client I would agree its a little extreme. However I find it a very nice retouch. Would you care to explain your steps? I would like to know what you did

convert image to lab-color
duplicate layer and desaturate
create new curve-layer and raise the curve
invert and edit wrinkles
thats it
to see results in color switch the layermode to luminosity



*Ive worked with a tablet

thanx interesting, never thought about inverting my proses for saturation (via lab mode) and do the same to desaturate.