2 beauty shots for deep critiques :3

[motionless]

Hello there, this is Renato again!
Ive been workin on these 2 beauty shots for the community to critique :P

Basically, I mixed (obviously) some of the so called good techniques for retouching.

I develope my raw files on capture one, and then export them as a tiff and proceed to retouch'em on PS.

I do the normal thing, healin', cloning, re-expose some parts of the image...

Then I spend most of the time retouching on D&B with curves, and then I separate color & texture frequencies and do a middle layer for "airbrushing" skin so I have a more smooth "middle" skin texture (I'm having a real hard time on how to describe it, I hope it makes sense) and finally I treat the colors on the skin and the whole image with color balance, and selective correction layers etc...

I'll be glad to do a video tutorial of this process if people get interested in, I have no problem with sharing all my methods for beginners to see... let's see how this thread goes and I'll work on the video ASAP. :3

Feel free to be as objective and deep as possible, I need more improvement :3

Thanks a lot guys!

demo.jpg

Here there are the links for the bigger sizes

http://www.simple-motions.net/before_after.jpg

http://www.simple-motions.net/before_after_2.jpg

[Photobyjohan]

Wow! I really like the overall "classy" look and feel.
I would love to see a video describing the middle layer airbrushing!

[Boneappetit]

Nice job man!

[motionless]

Thank you guys! I'm working on my video tutorial! I'll let you know here when its finished!

[ItsOscar]

A video will be awesome. I'll be looking out for it.