Critiques - - Shortened neck body retouching plz critique

yelhsaneerg · #1 01-29-2008, 03:12 PM

please offer any insights to make this photo better

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

jam1212 · #2 01-29-2008, 05:21 PM

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

pixelzombie · #3 01-29-2008, 05:46 PM

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

yelhsaneerg · #4 01-29-2008, 06:06 PM

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 · #5 01-29-2008, 08:14 PM

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 · #6 01-29-2008, 10:00 PM

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 · #7 01-29-2008, 10:12 PM

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

yelhsaneerg · #8 01-29-2008, 10:35 PM

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 · #9 01-30-2008, 09:30 AM

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.