Workin on a style NSFW

[Godmother]

For my portfolio (again)

I know it's a nude, but nothing can be seen
What do you think?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/3...35036cc2_o.jpg

Original from the talented Q http://www.quocvo.nl/

[prizo]

Normally I dont like over-smoothed skin... but that retouching is great! As opposed to most ultra-smooth skin which looks like a face painting put on top of a photograph, yours looks like an intentional, otherworldly concept.

Can you give any workflow/technique tips?

[Aurock]

To my untrained eye, it looks like you've gone too far in reducing her color. She was too red to start with, but now she looks very pale.

[Godmother]

It's mostly dodge and burn (Face, body and Hair)

hair was retouched with a mask turned up the saturation and the magenta in the reds (Selective Color)

The body skintone was altered using selective color (- 70 magenta -80 black -15 Yellow aprox)

Also Hue/Saturation tu desaturate the reds a little.

The eyes were sharpened and altered with curves. and dodged/burned with a very small brush.

[Godmother]

Originally Posted by Aurock

To my untrained eye, it looks like you've gone too far in reducing her color. She was too red to start with, but now she looks very pale.

Yes, It was what I wanted... to make her pale, almost white, without desaturating the skin

[Cassidy]

Well done Godmother, think you have achieved your goal

[Godmother]

Originally Posted by Cassidy

Well done Godmother, think you have achieved your goal

Thank you very much. Hope the biz think so too. I need more work

[NancyJ]

Very nice, but the nose could do with some work. You've lightened the shadowed areas, particularly the nostrils, where even on pale skin, they should be dark.

[Godmother]

Originally Posted by NancyJ

Very nice, but the nose could do with some work. You've lightened the shadowed areas, particularly the nostrils, where even on pale skin, they should be dark.

Thats all you have to say? You are my favourite critic

Here go have some more for my portfolio, bring it on!

Retouched:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/3...17fa2afc_o.jpg

Original from Q
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/3...98fe392d_o.jpg


Here you can see the full retouch of the redhead:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/3...7c7faced_o.jpg

[NancyJ]

Sorry hun, I was posting in a rush - I'll look at them properly in the morning.

[Godmother]

Another Style for the same portfolio.

This was a request from a client: He wanted airbrushed look but with pores and texture.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/3...be98fd56_b.jpg

Photographer: Glen Grant
Model: Lauren

[prizo]

Can we all practice & post our results with these photos?

[Godmother]

Originally Posted by prizo

Can we all practice & post our results with these photos?

As long as you don't post them outside Retouh Pro and even here if it is outside this thread (always in retouchpro) you have to credit the photographer and the model and link back here. No problem.

[WayDen]

Really like your work, especially on the redhead. Is it too much to ask that you post the link to your Flickr page? I'd love to check out some more of your stuff...

[Sweetlight]

Lovely, awesome skin tones you created. I love it. If you wanna you can email me and we can trade some tips, tricks and critique some stuff for each other some time.
Chris
cwaltersart@yahoo.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetlight/