Glamour retouch challenge here!!!!

[superkoax]

Well, this is my first unofficial challenge for people who like to retouch badly shot pictures of nice models, like my girlfriende here....We were enjoying a ncie time in the living room shooting some nice shoots...I took this picture so there would som degree of challenge for some people in here...Hope you enjoy!

HERE IS THE LINKthe picture is about 1.5mgb in size)

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/213/jancikelq5.jpg


my version is in the ttachments! What do you think? about my skin details, well I wanted to keep it abit honest....

ENJOY!


Bets regards

Gerry

[Ziaphra]

This is my take...

[i.ilievski]

Here is my attempt... Hope you'll like it

[Peter S]

Thought I would give this one a try also

[miguel]

Here is my "glamour" retouch...

[prettypixal]

I thought I would give it a go too I love glam retouches

[plugsnpixels]

Well, we already have our share of soft-focus enhancements, and since you said "retouch", I pulled out the plug-ins and had at it!

Here's what I used:

Vertus Fluid Mask, Digital Anarchy Backdrop Designer, Alien Skin Impact and Nature, Mr. Retro Machine Wash, Twisting Pixels PixelCreation, AV Bros. Page Curl Pro and ITC Lucis Art.

It's great fun to head off on a creative journey without knowing exactly where you're going...

[Cassidy]

My version

[oltenius]

My attempt.
Regards,
Dan

[Cassidy]

And one with a fresher look

[Syd]

Regards Syd

[badMiKe]

Greetz, mike

[DWThomp]

Here's my attempt. Still learning.

[plugsnpixels]

oltenius, I like your effects--what was your process?

And kudos to those brave enough to address The Mole without cropping ;-).

[leuallen]

my version

Larry

[NancyJ]

Probably a little over-the-top stylised for some, but the plain beauty retouch was a little flat. had to resize to post, second image is close-up of face.

[oltenius]

Originally Posted by plugsnpixels

oltenius, I like your effects--what was your process?

And kudos to those brave enough to address The Mole without cropping ;-).

Thank you!
I used a classic method!
Spot healing brush, gaussian blur, highpass, invert, again gaussian blur and plastic wrap.
Regards,
Dan

[NancyJ]

standard beauty retouch

[dkcoats]

I'm not exactly Mr. Glam but thought I'd give this the old college try. Nothing fancy, just the usual suspects - degrunge, b&d, clone, heal, etc.

dc

[ray12]

Thanks for the photo to play with.

Used Fluid Mask to cut out the girl and get good hair, Liquify to adjust some features, Surface blur to apply base makeup, Neutral 50% layer for shading and toning, Skin texture mask to place skin texture back in again, Layer masks for blending.

Ray

[bella]

Here is my attempt.

[plugsnpixels]

Judging by the other entries I guess I overdid it! ;-)

[PhotoVagrant]

Another attempt at it

[wildduck]

Hi all,
I'm new here and very new to retouching, but here's my version, what do you think??

[pavel123]

My rendering.

[LQQKER]

A lot of different takes on this.

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by LQQKER

A lot of different takes on this.

It is different... The photo is looking so much more natural as opposed to a generic "cosmetics add" type of look one gets with standard blur/soften manipulations.

Could you drop a hint as to what you did... Pattern applied by a healing brush?


Pavel

[pavel123]

Another version. Pavel

[DouDimmez]

Here's mine..

[LQQKER]

I would guess what I've done is more photo-art than what most would consider a retouch, however, no doubt its "always" a matter of individual taste and what ever floats your boat. No patterns applied.

*Cropped, straightened and resized the image.
*Black layer under the working layer.
*Soft eraser to blend image edges.
*Hue & sat adj on various parts of face.
*Various amounts of adaptive equalization.
*Painted in shadows with low opacity.
*Healing brush to remove items that make-up would normally cover.
*Contrast adjustments where needed.
*Created a simplified layer under working.
*Some gaussian blur.
*Another hue & sat adj.
*Added noise.

Of course layers and masks were involved and applied to individual taste.