Shortened neck body retouching plz critique

[yelhsaneerg]

please offer any insights to make this photo better

http://www.juicyfxstudio.com/longneckgirlenlarged.html

[jam1212]

Do you have a before photo for us to see so we can more accurately critique your efforts?

[pixelzombie]

wow, she does have a long neck..it looks good from what i can see but that photo is quite small...

[yelhsaneerg]

hey jam....just roll ur mouse over the pic for the before

& pixel...sorry that's the largest version of the pic i downloaded originally..sorry...but thanks for the input

[duwayne]

I saw this photo sometime age and never noticed the long neck. I think you shortened it a little too much. Now her neck looks too thick for her body proportions. I shortened it a little less and thinned her neck. Als added a little pop by boosting the highlights and shadows. I think yours also has a slight yellow cast.

[jam1212]

haha whoops! I guess I should have tried that one first! Dang, she really did have a long neck! I agree with duwayne, it might have been shortened a bit much. If you shorten it that amount, thin it out a bit to even things out proportionally.

[dkcoats]

I guess I'm not convinced her neck needed shortening, and you've turned her skin green.

[yelhsaneerg]

it must be your monitor or something because everyone here agrees she doesn't look green.....i wasn't trying to make her look like the hulk or something lol

[dkcoats]

I just did a skin correction using SkinTune (to eliminate the effects of my (reasonably well-calibrated) monitor and my (not as good as it used to be, probably, but still better than average) color perception).

The point I sampled was R170 G144 B95 before correction, R171 G127 B95 after. The only significant change was in the green channel.