Critiques - - Need critiques.

ashkumar · #1 01-01-2008, 01:32 AM

Hello All,

Happy new year !!!!!

I'm photo artist and have 10 yrs. experience of photoshop.
I'm working as a freelance artist with some clients.
Now I've build my own webiste

www.photofixonline.com

I need help to improve my skill, as u will see my before/after example in the above site, please give me ur valuable suggestions to improve my skill and my web services.

Please do not hesitate to tell real facts, I will appreciate them.

This is a very good community for photoshop user. I hope all will help me much.

thanks,

again happy new year.

Swampy · #2 01-01-2008, 09:53 AM

Ashkumar, You've done some wonderful skin work. I find a few of your enhancements a little dark and perhaps a tad on the green side. Keep up the good work.

acsi · #3 01-01-2008, 01:09 PM

I would spell check your website.

ashkumar · #4 01-02-2008, 12:20 AM

Thanks swampy, If possible, please descibe my restoration work, all is satisfactory or not.

asci, I did not understand what do u want to tell ?

Ashkumar

ashkumar · #5 01-02-2008, 02:27 AM

Hello All,

I'm working as a freelance photo retoucher. Now I build my own web site

http://www.photofixonline.com

Please see my work and tell me all is good or not ?

I can also do hair mask in a very good manner Please see attached image.

ur critiques are welcome and if anyone wants my service I can give u for reasonable rates.

Ashkumar

0lBaldy · #6 01-02-2008, 03:24 AM

Consulting is not my expertise but you wanted constructive criticism and we are here to try and help..
Keep in mind that this is just one old mans opinion and does not represent RetouchPRO and may be dismissed if you so desire..

This critique is only about your web site.. which I feel is representative of you and your work. At least as I see it..

ashkumar · #7 01-02-2008, 03:36 AM

oh !!! 0lBaldy,

thanks to tell me some real things, I'm agree that the snapshot u attached is a very poor presentation. I'm surprising that here I'm seeing a aligned look, may be it is problem with the internet exlorer version. I've to investigate the cause. and errors in language I should correct it. I am thankful to u that u opened my eyes. I'll correct all the problems soon.

thank u so much.

ashkumar · #8 01-02-2008, 05:31 AM

Hello 0lBaldy,

I've solved the problem, may be it is work there.

play with CTRL + Mouse Scroll button, It will resize ur font size accoding to default size. Play with Mouse scroll on both direction with holding control (CTRL) key.

appearence for wep page will be adjusted from it.

let me know if it work. I also correced spellings in my web pages.

Thank u so much, I'm waiting for ur reply eagerly.

Ashkumar

ashkumar · #9 01-02-2008, 08:11 AM

I actually need feedbak to know my skill level.

please help all !!!

0lBaldy · #10 01-02-2008, 03:52 PM

Ashkumar, The changes you have made are a great start toward a much more refined site..

You are right.. I had my fonts set to the largest for my old eyes and resetting them to medium took care of the alignment problem.. (This could be done with coding so the user would not have to make any adjustments) Customer/User convenience is paramount in web page construction.. if it is not easy and simple for the visitor to use your site.. they are only a click away from leaving.. so grab them with the best you have to offer.. nothing mediocre will do! Take the time to take a long critical view of your site and your pictures.. then ask yourself.. "Is this the best I can do?" If there is something you can improve on... then DO IT! If something just does not look right.. change or eliminate it..

When you desire to send the user to another area of your site, like all your links, references to other pages or contacts such as mail to: should all be clickable links for the convenience to the users so your patrons do not have to type in the addresses..

You don't appear to have a META tag for a site description, or a META tag for site keywords, you should add these. This is often used by the search engine to create the listing for your site.

AdamZx3 · #11 01-02-2008, 05:58 PM

I have found some problems with the alignment of the text in the "about us" page and the "Pricing" page. I am using Firefox and Safari for my browsers. I don't have

I would try and use CSS text fields for these, I have found them to be compatible with Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Rather than using tables. I would hate to see you redo your entire site because of that, hopefully you can use some inline CSS strings to insert the text...I really don't know a whole lot about it but I just search google for the code.

It is an issue that has to be fixed, and I would delete the ad's from the site, they are very unprofessional. To be honest If I was looking at your site I would close it without thinking about sending photo's to you, just based on the way the site was put together.

Yoolan · #12 01-03-2008, 01:24 AM

Hey ashkumar,
you should work on your photoshop skills. it seems like you retouch the skin with the gaussian blur. use dodge and burn. and read some tutorials on this site.

maybe you should read these books frome katrin eismann, too.

http://www.photoshopdiva.com/books.html

rob

DameLinda · #13 01-03-2008, 09:43 PM

I think your retouch work is wonderful. Beautiful skins and rich colors. I have no knowledge of restoration work, so I can't comment on those.

Linda

ashkumar · #14 01-04-2008, 12:42 AM

All comments are very helpful to improve my website & my skill.

I need more n more critique, so I can refine my site and services.

As all members suggesting me, I'm making change regularly.

please touch each and every corner of my work.

I'm looking for more hard critiques.

Ashkumar

Flora · #15 01-05-2008, 08:09 AM

Hi ashkumar,

honest opinion?

Most of the examples on your website are kind of small, so, it is difficult to really see the details of your work and, therefore, difficult to give an opinion on your skill level ...
According to the "Guideline on Photo Restoration Ethics.pdf" I didn't see any 'restoration' at all on your site ...

(the moment you start adding details that weren't on the original:
turban, colour, flowers, red dots on the forehead etc. what you did to the image becomes everything but a restoration!
For what your retouching is concerned, I like the colour enhancements but I think you tend to an over smoothed/blurred skin which makes the features (eyes-eyebrows, nose-nostrils) look over sharpened ...

I magnified here the detail of one of the retouched images from your site to point out other things that should be corrected: 2008_ Jan_ 000.jpg

1= skin (over blurred, yet still blotchy).
2= 'hot pixels' and other imperfections which haven't been corrected.
3= shiny spots completely ignored.

That said, I think you are on the right track ... but, in your place, I wouldn't rush things, but take my time to learn and practice a bit more...