OK - so the whole skin tone straight retouching thing has been fun (and rather easy for some of you) so now how about a twist? You will notice that the model is a big part of this picture - but in a small way. And she does have some issues that need to be corrected! But what will you do with everything else in this picture.... remembering that the model still needs to draw the viewers attention! Now the last part of the instructions (if you will) ..... no cropping!

http://www.kdpstudio.com/2008/image/KDP_4109.jpg

Please respect the copyright on all of my images (so I can continue to provide them as practice images for you to use) Thank you for the respect...

John Kasko

I've tried twice to download the file, but Photoshop tells me it is damaged and will only open about 1/4 of it.

Took a try at this picture also. I am not a photographer or retoucher, I settle on what looks good to me, so no doubt there are numerous techinal errors.

dc

I just tried it and it worked fine... but here is a second link to the image at a little smaller size... Hope this works for you.

http://www.kdpstudio.com/2008/image/KDP_4109b.jpg

Great photo! I thought it was just begging for a some selective coloring...here's my take on it.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh223/overcoming-silence/KDP_4109copy.jpg

Well you did keep the focus on her! And nice job on taking care of her as well!

great photo to work on, John...thanks!

resizing really kills the detail but here's my try...

I like what you did with the surroundings... the darkened areas hep a lot. I'm having an issue only with the arm fat... I think it still needs a little rounding to be believable. Leave just a little there and then use dodge and burn to create a realistic shadow contour.

Here's my go at it...i wanted to try something different than what i thought everyone else would do...hope you like it :D

sorry the image has a lot of compression to get it to fit as an attachment in the forums but here's the link to the better image :D

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/yelhsaneerg/biggirllittlepicturejpegretouchbigg.jpg

Did a light and dark..

Larger versions here: ..LIGHT (http://img31.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=21695_DLight_C_122_613lo.jpg).. ..DARK (http://img212.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=21692_Dark_c_122_467lo.jpg)..

www.lancea.net/brickwall.jpg

thanks for the image...was fun working on it.

Very nice yelhsaneerg, I love it!

Thanks Mac! Just going for something a little more "enchanting"

Thanks for the photo to play with, quite a fun concept

One try from me.

love the more subtle hues there storm

Thank you Cassidy.

Regards,

Storm

just thought I'd try and change the lighting - more open roof space.

Nice pic, here is my try with this one. I thought it could be a good idea to add something to the image to take it to a different place. What do you think?

P.S. : Kasko, I just putting a cropped image to show some details that couldn’t be seen because of the compression. I didn’t mean to crop the image.

[img=http://img107.imagevenue.com/loc1157/th_68585_KDP_4109_2_122_1157lo.jpg] (http://img107.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=68585_KDP_4109_2_122_1157lo.jpg)

my try:
http://ecols.de/images/retouch/bride_rev.jpg

thanks for sharing.. was fun to work with!

@rhasval: that reflection surly won't work ;) good idea though!

Here (http://i32.tinypic.com/2znr8jk.jpg)

Critiques welcome! I've been editing for a few months now, and I recently bought CS3 Extended (hurray for student prices)

It's my first time posting here/ doing one of your challenges!