Glam look

[jk31492]

Hi i would like to give this model a glamour look, shiny gold skin, etc, brighten this pic as well, im waiting for the ideas, thx

[aaRonology101]

well, heres my crack at the image. i know you asked for some glamour, but im only a beginner at this stuff.

i wanted to add some lipstick, and maybe some eye shadow, but who am i kiddin, what do i know about makeup. =oP

hope more people give this image a try .. id love to see what others can do/create. all i ended up doing was cleaning the pixelation a bit and brought out the eyes ...

[PhotoVagrant]

Used the retouching tools from 1Click although the image is a little small to do much with, still here's my 5mins worth

[maasika]

The image is in a poor quality, but I tried to do something anyway... Here's the result ;o)

I didn't want to make it too unnatural, but those pixels required blurring... Oh, and I thought it would look better cropped.

[Ayasdi]

I took a stab at it, as well. Did a bit of work cleaning up the exposure and complexion with duplicate layers, layer masks, hue/saturation adjustment layers and finally a bit of soft blur. And, yes, a more dramatic crop.

[solitear]

Hi ..... I know this isn't what you were looking for but I liked the feel of this picture ..... just cleaned it up a bit and used the de-grunge skin tut found here...... then cropped it . . .

Beth

[solitear]

Just another fun version...

[solitear]

I know..... enough already....

[Luchia]

Here is what I created.
Lightened image with levels and curves.
Cleaned skin
Brightened eyes and etc

[byRo]

Quite a challenge!
So much so, seemed more like restoration / art than retouching.

I just sortta threw eveything at it - twice.

Rô

[Ziaphra]

Tried to keep it as natural as possible...

[snook305]

That's the best one yet..
Very Nice!
Snook

[solitear]

Gaaahhhhh !!!!! This is addicting.. . just wanted to see her as a redhead or two....

[logatul]

@solitear - best one so far. what technique did you use to achieve that result?

[solitear]

Hi logatul,

Thank you for your kind comment.... I did exactly what Ro did..... "I just sortta threw eveything at it - twice.

Rô"

Actually, I took one of my previous versions on which I'd:

* Used the clone tool (for skin imperfections)
* Did a (probably more than 1) Levels adj. layer for darkening the darks
* I started doing kinda overkill on the makeup since he wanted a glam look by reshaping eyebrows (clone tool) then darkening them..... I whitened eye whites, added the crescent shape lighter area on the irises using a Color Dodge adj. layer, darkened the iris rings using a Color Burn adj. layer, then used another Color Burn adj. layer to darken eye shadow.
* Flattened it all
* Used Ctrl + J to duplicate that layer
* On the new layer I Blurred it using a Photoshop pluggin "namesupressed"
* Then set the blurred layer's Blend Mode to "Screen" and adjusted opacity

Saved that whole mess . . . got to thinking she'd look good with bangs and I took some hair from another photo, copied it to this picture then blurred it's layer til it was somewhat the same blurriness of the blonde lady's picture.

* Flattened everything
* Ctrl + J to duplicate layer
* On dup. layer I used Smudge Tool (set to Darken using high opacity brush)
* Smudged the outline of the new, red hair to soften edges
* Flattened again
* Darkened lips with Color Burn layer blurred a little
* Flattened once more
* Selected lips, copied, pasted
* On that layer used Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap and made her lips shiny
* Flattened then used the Color Dodge Tool set to Dodge Highlights just to add the extra white dot on her lips.
* May have Ctrl + J and blurred that layer but erased over eyes, lips to retain a little sharpness
* Flattened and was done (not counting cropping)

I also did Ctrl + J and set that layer's blend mode to Soft Light with low opacity to make the red head on the right . . .

I'm sorry if I went into too much detail..... I've learned SO much here and just try to say "thank you everyone" by returning the favor whenever possible.

oxoxo
Beth