Silly Eye, Beauty Retouching. now is it Your turn;)!

[Cassidy]

My version

[ruud92]

Originally Posted by CathyH

Here is my version.
I think the skin is a little soft and the hair kind of looks painted.

Ruud92, how did you do the skin?

Cathy

I give Her Face a Gaussian Blur ( 7,3) then i did a new layer with the Face of the original SKIN ( Overlay) Then i did a High pass filter ( 10,0) Over that layer! and set him on 70% , and the Face! i did blush on the cheeks, i dont have burn or dodge, because i think that its not necearsy is for this photo( i know my englisch is not Really good, so i hope you can understand me!)

R.

[lorelei2876]

yay! I love retouching challenges. This one is mine - because of the low quality of the photo, I couldn't do a "realistic" skin retouch like I usually do - so now she's airbrushed to perfection and she's ready for a magazine cover.

Edited to add:
Here's a side by side comparison. In Photoshop 6.0: I used guassian blur/art history tool (several settings: luminosity, overlay, lighten, darken) , several adjustment layers, as well as the magical Liquify tool.

[teresa46]

I did a quick mask and gaussian blur to fix the skin on a background copy.
To tweak the eyes I copied them and pasted them to their own layer to whiten the whites and dodge the dark. I selected the nose and did a
tranform perspective on it.

[lorelei2876]

Originally Posted by Cassidy

My version

Cassidy, that's really nice, and really subtle. I love that your technique is completely natural, and as though the photo looked EXACTLY like that from the camera, with no photoshopping. Her skin is flawless.

[ruud92]

I never tried before using airbrushing for the skin ( only for blush on cheeks) but i'm gonna try now

[irshgrlkc]

Thought I'd take a stab at this too as I needed a break from a photo I'm working on.

[Cassidy]

Originally Posted by lorelei2876

Cassidy, that's really nice, and really subtle. I love that your technique is completely natural, and as though the photo looked EXACTLY like that from the camera, with no photoshopping. Her skin is flawless.

Shucks, many thanks Lorelei

[Yoolan]

my turn...

regards rob

[ruud92]

I have alot of things learnd here, thanks.

[teresa46]

irshgrlk: Can you post the steps that you did to achieve your "try".
I had problems with dodging the eyes to get a lighter eye so I painted
in some yellow and did a smudge. You got the effect that I was trying to
do.

[irshgrlkc]

Originally Posted by teresa46

irshgrlk: Can you post the steps that you did to achieve your "try".
I had problems with dodging the eyes to get a lighter eye so I painted
in some yellow and did a smudge. You got the effect that I was trying to
do.

Unfortunately I've already tossed the file but here is what I remember...

1. Levels adjustment to correct overall tone.
2. Healing brush to remove obvious blemishes and discoloration.
3. Byro's degrunge technique found here.
4. Used Photoshop CS2's Liquify Filter to slightly adjust features.
5. Selected a pink color from the lipstick and used a soft brush at low opacity to add blush to cheeks, forehead, chin.
6. Made a quick selection of the iris and pupil of each eye then took the dodge tool (small soft brush) set to midtones and 20% exposure and drew a circle around each eye.
7. Added fake eyelashes to the tops of the eyes using a brush I found on Deviant Art. (Eyelashes by Trisste) I slightly blurred and decreased the opacity of the eyelashes.
8. Added a hue/saturation layer with very light opacity to brighten the image and to make it look more contrasty in my opinion.

Somewhere in there I also painted the blond highlights with a color I sampled from her hair (brush set to color) because I think darker hair helps the eyes to pop out more.

Hope this helps.

[ruud92]

Originally Posted by irshgrlkc

Unfortunately I've already tossed the file but here is what I remember...

1. Levels adjustment to correct overall tone.
2. Healing brush to remove obvious blemishes and discoloration.
3. Byro's degrunge technique found here.
4. Used Photoshop CS2's Liquify Filter to slightly adjust features.
5. Selected a pink color from the lipstick and used a soft brush at low opacity to add blush to cheeks, forehead, chin.
6. Made a quick selection of the iris and pupil of each eye then took the dodge tool (small soft brush) set to midtones and 20% exposure and drew a circle around each eye.
7. Added fake eyelashes to the tops of the eyes using a brush I found on Deviant Art. (Eyelashes by Trisste) I slightly blurred and decreased the opacity of the eyelashes.
8. Added a hue/saturation layer with very light opacity to brighten the image and to make it look more contrasty in my opinion.

Somewhere in there I also painted the blond highlights with a color I sampled from her hair (brush set to color) because I think darker hair helps the eyes to pop out more.

Hope this helps.

Wow, Thanks!

R.

[philbach]

Well I tried not to make it too soft and retain much of her natural color

[ruud92]

Thanks for all the reactions!