Can some one give me some Critique on my work??

[carfree123]

lol title says it all...

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...llcopycopy.jpg

hope u like it im new to the face retouching... but ive been doing cars for a long time

[mikedimples]

Wow, you've given us some variety! These are very small, so I'll just be able to tell you the most obvious.

Car: beautiful! Very professional and clean. (except for desaturating that grass a little to the right of the car, or even slightly lens blurring the houses in the back to keep the focus on the car, but I'm nitpicky that way.)

Hands on face girl: Very good! Slightly too much contrast, because parts of her skin are pure white and the darkest values are pure black. You don't usually want this.

Long hair girl: Looks like there's lots of 100% black in that picture, that's bad - especially if you were ever considering printing this. It would be a muddy mess. Even for screen, don't use 100% black. It erased the detail in that area. You also blew out the highlights again. In this case, the original is superior in my opinion.

Great job on the restoration! Very nice. I'm curious, is it a family member?

[carfree123]

first off... here are the high res "afters": http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...cropedcopy.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...4zu8apcopy.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...epair1copy.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...g_0280copy.jpg

Originally Posted by mikedimples

Wow, you've given us some variety! These are very small, so I'll just be able to tell you the most obvious.

Car: beautiful! Very professional and clean. (except for desaturating that grass a little to the right of the car, or even slightly lens blurring the houses in the back to keep the focus on the car, but I'm nitpicky that way.)

Hands on face girl: Very good! Slightly too much contrast, because parts of her skin are pure white and the darkest values are pure black. You don't usually want this.

Long hair girl: Looks like there's lots of 100% black in that picture, that's bad - especially if you were ever considering printing this. It would be a muddy mess. Even for screen, don't use 100% black. It erased the detail in that area. You also blew out the highlights again. In this case, the original is superior in my opinion.

Great job on the restoration! Very nice. I'm curious, is it a family member?

car:haha thanks, yea i noticed the grass... thanks for pointing it out. Glad u like it

Hands on face girl: yes i admit u are right... idk why bit something about making pure black and whites makes me like the pic more... but thanks

Long hair girl: yea, i understand... thanks for the honest feed back

restoration: nope lol... that's just some random pic

thank you soooooo much for the feed back, it was a lot of help... keep in touch!

[ananaiasa]

Pretty nice car paint job is awesome but the potraits are a bit dark Im assuming you used overlay or levels with blurring effect? Uve kind of lost detail in the shadows(like hair). The face smoothing is good but you can also add pores back into the skin to give a more realistic look.....The tutorial is called Soft Dior look (on this site).

(Junior Members Unite lol)

[carfree123]

Originally Posted by ananaiasa

Pretty nice car paint job is awesome but the potraits are a bit dark Im assuming you used overlay or levels with blurring effect? Uve kind of lost detail in the shadows(like hair). The face smoothing is good but you can also add pores back into the skin to give a more realistic look.....The tutorial is called Soft Dior look (on this site).

(Junior Members Unite lol)

thank u, glad u like the car. and yea, i used curves and levels. thank u for the tutorial

[Godmother]

Originally Posted by carfree123

lol title says it all...

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...llcopycopy.jpg

hope u like it im new to the face retouching... but ive been doing cars for a long time

Face retouching: Don't BLUR, keep an eye on detail (Shadows and highlights).

[carfree123]

Originally Posted by Godmother

Face retouching: Don't BLUR, keep an eye on detail (Shadows and highlights).

thank you, like i said, i just started face retouching and after looking at a few examples, reading tutorials and listening to what people say.... i noticed what i did wrong.

thanks again