Could you critic that!

[marki]

removing the shadow in the background would make the image look more balanced.

[rsphotocreation]

here is another retouch I made, tell me what you think guys, I also want you to tell me what you think about my flash introduction on my website:

http://rsphotocreation.weebly.com/

it's not finished yet but i wanna know what you think about it, thanks


Regards,

[Quantum3]

You need to balance your highlights and stop using glow effects. Cheeckbones are too dark.

[Caesium]

Looks like you have gotten better since your stuff back on the first page. The biggest thing I could offer as a suggestion to you at this point is.....


...BURN YOUR WEBSITE TO THE GROUND! =) Seriously though, that made me want to douse myself in kerosene and light a match. Between the loud music and machine gun quick graphic strobing I thought I was going to go into an epileptic seizure.

Ok, so I am kinda joking around here, but you really should tone that down a bit.

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by Caesium

...BURN YOUR WEBSITE TO THE GROUND! =)

man, don't you think you were a bit rude here? You don't know how much effort this guy put on his website, and he likes this way. You should respect a bit the taste of others and suggest what should be tuned. However, I comprehend your reaction now I see the website. It makes everybody run away from there, seriously.

[flexmanta]

rsphotocreation, dude, do yourself a favor.... get yourself a real photograph like this one and start learning from scratch.

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by flexmanta

rsphotocreation, dude, do yourself a favor.... get yourself a real photograph like this one and start learning from scratch.

Hoho... Man... You're pushing me to publish something I did for the sake of the challenge... Just few secs...

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...Untitled-1.jpg

That was hard... XD

[flexmanta]

That, my friend, is a skin transplant. I have taken the time to analyze it properly, must have taken ages. Good job.

[rsphotocreation]

Here; another retouch

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by flexmanta

That, my friend, is a skin transplant. I have taken the time to analyze it properly, must have taken ages. Good job.

Around 9 hours... I would like to do it better, but I'm not satisfied with the result, so I trashed it.

[rsphotocreation]

Here's another retouched photo did within one hour, i know it's not perfect, but it imporved it a little ^^

Regards,

[Quantum3]

If you believe that what you do to your photos is good, you should try doing it faster. I can achieve the same effect in 3 minutes. 1 hour is too much for this kind of retouching, you must improve your workflow and speed up your turn arounds.

[rsphotocreation]

This is a retouch I made with photoshop CS4 within 30min
tell me what you think

photographer of the original picture: Chris Keeling

regards,

[Quantum3]

I honestly don't know where to start to critic your retouchings because they have so many imperfections. The overall contrast is good, but you need to mask out the exagerated darken areas. Also keep in mind that adding contrast brings up many details that should be removed. The hand luminance on the right looks quite different from the coor and luminance of the whole body, so you need to fix that too. Also be careful with contrast, try not to blow out the highlights and not to daken too much the already dark tones.

[rsphotocreation]

Here I tried to do what you talked about, the lights and the dark areas.
I've made a slight smooth on the skin, and I re-enforce the hair.

you can't see it well cause it's tiny
here it's bigger
http://rsphotocreation.deviantart.co...le-2-154663284

tell me what you think and if it's not still good, could you show me please

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by rsphotocreation

Here I tried to do what you talked about, the lights and the dark areas.
I've made a slight smooth on the skin, and I re-enforce the hair.

you can't see it well cause it's tiny
here it's bigger
http://rsphotocreation.deviantart.co...le-2-154663284

tell me what you think and if it's not still good, could you show me please

Looks much, much better. By the way, why you don't buy a DVD tutprial? There are many nowadays. I think you would need the first Vitaly's DVD, which is for benginners. Don't know what about the Nick's DVD, but seems more for benginner-intermediate.

[rsphotocreation]

The RSphotocreation presents "Perfection" a new kind of retouching, a
new style...

http://rsphotocreation.deviantart.co...tion-156406461

here I tried to do my best with all what you said, about colors, lights...

am I improving?

Regards,

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by rsphotocreation

The RSphotocreation presents "Perfection" a new kind of retouching, a
new style...

http://rsphotocreation.deviantart.co...tion-156406461

here I tried to do my best with all what you said, about colors, lights...

am I improving?

Regards,

Definitely, you're improving, but try to be humble in the process, that's the best improvement every single human being can achieve. More plain, I mean that the title and the coment under the pic is quite big for the beauty standards, but I see you feel it as a very big improvement for your own personal path to perfection, which is very honorable. Perfection is infinite, it doesn't has any limits so it's unrecheable, at the end. We can approach to perfection, some peole more than others, but we never will be perfect. However, you see how the human being always seek for perfection, sometimes in the wine, sometimes in the food, in the cars or couture of clothes, even in ideologies and such. The human being always seek for perfection, for the fountain from where al the virtues come, but shamely, it doesn't get realized ofently that the PERFECTION doesn't belong to those things. in fact, it doesn't belongs to things. I felt like you a year ago, with my first decent retouchings, but it goes much, much beyond of that. Would be nice if you put one of your first retouchs and your new ones in order to tell the difference much more.

[rsphotocreation]

yes sure I'll do that tomorrow, I will re-edit a photo, to see the difference. There are a lot of photos I like and I'm sure I can give them a new look, a new retouch!

I feel crazy

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by rsphotocreation

yes sure I'll do that tomorrow, I will re-edit a photo, to see the difference. There are a lot of photos I like and I'm sure I can give them a new look, a new retouch!

I feel crazy

That's the attitude, man. Keep going and you will reach what you want. LEarn new techniques too, you should buy a DVD tutorial such as Natalia Taffarel (advanced), Vitaly's DVD (benginner) or the one from Nick (intermediate, as far as I read). That will help you a lot too

[rsphotocreation]

Thanks to you and thanks to this forum, I improved my skills, because here, I've found motivation to achieve things I couldn't even think I would be able to do.

I would like to thank you man, now I'm motivated more than ever!

Just a question though, I spent 2h30-3h on my last retouching you saw here:
http://rsphotocreation.deviantart.co...tion-156406461

I would like to know if it was too much, or if it is good.

Thanks you again!

Regards,

[Quantum3]

It's too much time, but you will become faster and better when you find good techniques. You need to set up a workflow and you also need to standarize your techniques in order to work faster.

Let me show you some of my editings with the time spent on those.

This one took me around 25 hours: http://quantum3studio.daportfolio.com/gallery/111332

This one about 8 hours (still to desaturate it a bit): http://quantum3studio.daportfolio.com/gallery/111332#2

This one and the next five took me 3-4 hours: http://quantum3studio.daportfolio.com/gallery/111332#4

Perfectly healling skin may take around 30 minutes, depending on the face, but usually it takes me that amount of time as much. What it takes me a lot of time is the polishing part, giving shape to the face by using just D&B, which is a very important part of the retouching because it's all about shading and fixing the hair, 'cause I odn't have a nice workflow for that.

About your picture, it looks good, but it doesn't look amazing. You need to fix the fliying away hairs and the strayed hairs too. This second one should be done at pixel level with the clone tool in darken mode. At this small size cannot see all what you did, but the eyebrows are a bit untidy. Her ears should be reshaped a bit with liquify. the left eye has too many wrinkles. There is a little but accented wrinkle at the right of her mouth. The lighting of her face should be improved. It looks fine, but could be better. The shadow, for example, under her mouth and above the chin is too dark and accented. The light on her forehead, at the sides of it, looks too uneven and her forehead looks a bit flat. You could accent a bit more her bone structure by shading too. Also the highlights are a little blown. Her lips needs improvements, such as color consistency. The overall skin color is too yellow and unnatural.

A suggestion about your signture... Clients usually don't like cheap prices, not expressed that way at the least. "Affordable" is a much better word than "Low Cost".

[rsphotocreation]

Thank you for all don't worry, I will change that right away, I'll make them pay as we say a service is a service

I'm trying a new kinda retouch for the skin I'll post it tonight or tomorrow

Have a nice day

[Quantum3]

The thing about the low costs is that you build a low profile of your self without noticing it and you will get very bad habbits that way and the clients will know that you don't appreaciate yourself and they will do whatever they want with you. You must show some dignity in order to achieve respect but keeping yourself humble. Don't brag of your talents, let your portfolio and your clients doing that for you

[rsphotocreation]

Here is my new kind of retouch: http://rsphotocreation.deviantart.co...sses-156522954

I tried something new, I don't find it good, there is no shadows and the face seems to be too artificial.

Tell me what you think, I'm not very pleased with this photo, but I wanted to post it here to have recommendations.

Regards;

[rsphotocreation]

This is one of my best retouched photo so far. At least this is what I think and people around me too. Tell me what you think about the whole photo. Although here the size isn't very big, it gives you an idea.

I will try to upload it in bigger size on deviant art or another website.

Regards,

[Quantum3]

Much, much better, bro. You're getting quite good!!!

[rsphotocreation]

Here are the close-up views of the photo I post just before.
Check the details...

[rsphotocreation]

Here are another retouched photos, called "The Cross" and "Gemey-Maybelline" the original photos come from the photographer Kelly E,

Tell me what you think, and also, which price could I put on this retouch?

Regards,

[rsphotocreation]

Hi, I'm back on this forum after a moment

I wanted to show you my latest retouching and show you how I improved since the last time.

Tell me what you think and don't forget that you can follow me on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rsphotocreation

Regards,