Could you critic that!

[rsphotocreation]

I've made a picture enhancement here with a free royalty picture. Tell me what is good or what is wrong about my job. I need to improve my skills.

Regards,

[luminarylegacy]

I like it =)

lol. Sorry, I can't think of anything
to critique it looks great. =]

[rsphotocreation]

Here is another work I've done with a photo of friends.
Tell me what is good, and what is wrong about the enhancement.

Regards,

[Quantum3Studio]

Personally I don't like those white rings and the eyes are a bit over done but nice.

[rsphotocreation]

Another picture I have enhanced, tell me if it is good, the basic photo was not in high quality.

[Aleksman71]

Not to god job on her eyes.

[rsphotocreation]

It was because I had to shrink the picture in order to post it here, less than 100Ko on the real one it does not appear like that.

Regards,

[rsphotocreation]

Another job here, the basic picture had not really great colours, so I did my possible to enhance it, this is what I did in 20 minutes.

Tell me what you think...

[rsphotocreation]

Here I wanted to give the picture, the night-club ambiance and a kind of classy style.

Tell me what you think...

[vincebeus]

Dont totally get it. You use the same technique in all the edits with some light effect (that in some photos blown out parts of the face (maybe dodge and some parts are burned) and then the swirls.

I think you do some nice things to the photos but like the overblown parts and the swirls i don't get it in all your edits. But that is just my 2 cents. It is all taste related. I do maybe things in my retouching that some people don´t like either.

[rsphotocreation]

I do the white as a signature :p and I change of style once in a while, at that moment I love the picture with smooth faces and stuffs like that.

Regards,

[Nicoxcx]

I think they are good attempts.

I am in no way a retoucher so I can't give you advanced Critique but I have paid for retouch work before so I am giving my 2 pennies worth from a customers point of view (I am also a photographer if that gives me any credibility haha).

I like the first one, but the last one I dislike the faces, they look really overblown and there is no texture whatsoever it has gone from skin to plastic and I think retouching shouldn't be as noticeable as that. It makes the light hitting the face very uneven but then again it's one opinion but I know customers of mine who have asked for retouching want minor changes

What method do you use? are you doing it by hand or just using actions/filters etc;

[Quantum3Studio]

I was thinking the white rings should be your watermark =D By the way, the glamour effect you're applying t your edits is quite over saturated. You can get a better result if you avoid the oversaturation. I know you like how you're doing it so far, but, for this kind of business you must aim much, much more higher than the shown here. Being very meticulous atediting and very measured with the editing as well, trying to get an image which looks perfect in all the meanings, which means very well balanced in tones, light and shadows, composition, forms and shapes. It must be perfect, and for that, the retoucher's eye must be the same. That cannot be taught, is learnt by experience. Take a look to www.shiftstudio.com and get fun. That guy is great at retouch.

Mart

[Sweetlight]

On the first one. I like the direction you went with it. Be aware of catchlights in the eyes. The ones in the pupils are fine but there is some strange stuff happening with the ones in ther colors of her eyes.

I like the brightness you added but be aware of too much brightness around the edlges of the photos that will lead a viewers eye out of the frame instead of into the center of the image. Especially the bright one on her in the bottom right.


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[rsphotocreation]

Thanks for all the replies, I will try to change my way to retouch photos a little bit, a man model sent me 5 photos of him to retouch. I'll do them and see what he thinks about my job, maybe I could get into this job. I will continue to do it for free. Cause I've seen on some websites $30 for a photo retouch and sometimes even $75, what the hell is that?

Regards,

[spydercam]

Don't like the rings, they draw too much attention away from the subject. Make sure you photos still resemble a real life person unless your just going for that kind of look. I am a newb too so I'm just giving you some points of veiw from my perspective. If I post up later feel free to lend me a critique or two.

Keep it up.

[spydercam]

Btw quit doing photos for free your making people like me who wanna make abit of money off of this later look bad. :P

jk

[rsphotocreation]

I'm really sorry, but I've decided to do it for FREE in order to be different from all the other websites of photo retouching. Some of them worth the fact to pay the price, but sometimes you are very disappointed with the result.

I need to drag a lot of people to my website in order to be famous. See all the free concepts are famous after a while: facebook, twitter, bebo…

Regards,

[Sweetlight]

Hey RS,

I am walking up too early to laugh so hard, not at you but this is funny, but I like you.
First of all, being famous just ain't all that it's cracked up to be, trust me. Money is nice too but it can be a pain in the butt as well.
My suggestion is that you continue to hone your skill and take it to a level where you are happy with your work and pleasing others. You are doing well and on your way. Read what you can, keep the good stuff and forget the bad. Listen to people's advice, keep the good stuff and leave therest behind. If you are truly meant for this and the art world you will most likely find that you my friend are more harsh and throw more criticism upon your self than anyone else could even begin to lay upon you. If you can deal with that and move through those self-inflicted wounds you will be doing fine.
As far as doing stuff for free. I don't care what anyone says, you do what you need to do to learn but as soon as your ready move out of that world and start making your money for the dues you have payed. I always did my free photography work for models and companies that were starting as well. I ended up with nice portfolio work and they ended up with what they needed. Some of those people are still my best clients today.
Money and payed jobs will come but you are not making anyone look bad by doing what you need to do to progress. There will be some that say this over and over but usually a quick look at there work and dedication will leave you feeling alright with yourself.
Today, most of my most rewarding work is the volunteer work I do. As you progress in yoru work you will might find as I did that a fancy client list filled with big-shot names is nice but it won't compare to the feeling you get by helping the little guy and helping others move forward with there dreams.
Those who don't put the effort in as much as others will most likely remain stationed half-way down the ladder but there is always room at the top.

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[rsphotocreation]

Hi Sweetlight,

You have written quite a long message for me, and I would like to thank you for that. As you said I have still a lot to learn from others, me and Photoshop. And people like you are the ones who make me want to continue to improve my skills.
You said I need to accept the critics; I am already trying to accept all the kinds of critics, even from my friends who do not know anything about Photoshop. And from the ones who know or pretend to know Photoshop in this forum. I am not afraid about critics; they are telling me what is wrong and what is good about my job.
I think that the art world is hard to live, you can have success from a day to another, and you can have flops after that. But I feel confident about that. There is always a solution to a problem what so ever.
Anyway I will continue to do what I do for free, even if it bothers some people. I do not care; we are free to do whatever we want.

Thanks Sweetlight, regards,

Here is a picture from the 6 I have received from a model. He asked me to edit his portfolio.

[R Dinwiddie]

The color looks good, but some of the highlighting is blown out. I suggest that you take the overall brightness down a totch or two.

Rhonda Dinwiddie

[Gary]

Clipped ..

Originally Posted by rsphotocreation

Hi Sweetlight,

You have written quite a long message for me, and I would like to thank you for that. As you said I have still a lot to learn from others, me and Photoshop. And people like you are the ones who make me want to continue to improve my skills.
You said I need to accept the critics; I am already trying to accept all the kinds of critics, even from my friends who do not know anything about Photoshop. And from the ones who know or pretend to know Photoshop in this forum. I am not afraid about critics; they are telling me what is wrong and what is good about my job.
Here is a picture from the 6 I have received from a model. He asked me to edit his portfolio.

I like your work altough I am not fully aware of your direction or preferences. I offer a critique only if you are trying to keep the final look realistic. With what you have posted, be aware of the clipped darks and highlights. If not, they will print as solid black and white with no detail at all. Refine the detail and coloring of the eyes. For me, this is a must as 'it's the eyes that say it all.'
But, as previously stated, it's all subjective though so I would encourage you to stay involved with forums such as this and continue to post examples of your work with the receptive attitude that you seem to have.

Speaking of subjective and as an example, I used your project and moved him away from the wall by removing the shadow on his left side, removed the color cast on his shirt by setting a color sampler and using curves to balance the RGB values to 245,245,245, used Shadow/Highlights to bring out the details of his hair, etc. Again, just to my tastes.

Cheers!

[rsphotocreation]

Hi this another photo retouching I've done, it was done before reading the advices about the dark zones, don't worry I'll try to improve my taste for the colors

Regards

[W.Smith]

It's a matter of taste, RS. And yours is certainly different from mine.

[rsphotocreation]

hey, I've edited this photo about 7 months ago. Tell me what you think about this photo, it is better than the ones posted above?

Regards,

[spydercam]

Originally Posted by R Dinwiddie

The color looks good, but some of the highlighting is blown out. I suggest that you take the overall brightness down a totch or two.

Rhonda Dinwiddie

Yeah that one is too overexposed.

[spydercam]

Originally Posted by rsphotocreation

hey, I've edited this photo about 7 months ago. Tell me what you think about this photo, it is better than the ones posted above?

Regards,

I would say it looks like it to me but would have to see a higher res to know if anything is over done.
I'm about to post up a thread if you wanna come critique me.

[rsphotocreation]

OK spidercam, let me know where you post will be located

Regards,

[spydercam]

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...uch-photo.html
Thanks rsphotocreation, there's the link.

[rsphotocreation]

hi, here are 2 new jobs I did tell me what you think about it