What retouching "styles" do you like?

[skydog]

KR1156,

Thanks for sharing that site. I really like the effect that is presented. It is just a look, like many others, that I like and wish I technically could create. Many of us like to enhance or create a photo for various reasons. Personally, I take sports shots and I must be able to provide a product that the general parent can't achieve with their Digital Rebel. Plus I just enjoy it!

[K.C.]

Originally Posted by shellby

The fashion and advertising world is all fiction. We are not going to stop retouching, and designers and art directors are not going to stop coming up with big campaigns to sell products.

Isn't that the truth. As a professional photographer I'm continually amazed at how far we're expected to take an image to meet a client's perception of beauty. I have to just let go and allow the image to become the client's. I do all my own retouching, but seldom to my taste.

Here's a recent shot.

And a rough final. The whites of her eyes will come back down and her teeth will be whitened. This is just to show the skin to my client.

[CathyH]

KC - that is very nice retouching. She is pretty but still natural.
Is this retouching included in a package? Or is this an add on.

[Kraellin]

shelby,

i hate playing the bad guy here, but i'm sure at least one of those images, if not more, are copyrighted images. if you dont have the copyright or dont have permmissions, then you need to remove them. if you do, then great.

i dont want to kill the thread, but maybe you can replace the copyrighted ones with freebies that would give similar examples. and where i'm no copyright lawyer, maybe you can use small parts of the images as examples, much like it's ok to quote a part of a book for learning purposes. doug would be the final authority on this.

for me, personally, i consider this site as a learning site and find no real objection if the images, or at least partial images, are used for that purpose, but i've questioned doug on this in the past and he's pretty adamant about not using any copyrighted/no permissions type images. so, if you wish to appeal this, talk to doug. otherwise, please remove any that you dont hold the copyrights to or dont have specific permission to use. i also know that doug has deleted one or two recent threads over this isssue. and like i say, i'd rather not delete the whole thread. it's a good thread.

[di_dia]

I like this style...but does anybody know about this technique?

[K.C.]

Originally Posted by CathyH

KC - that is very nice retouching. She is pretty but still natural.
Is this retouching included in a package? Or is this an add on.

Thank you Cathy. I include the cost of retouching in the shoot. I won't deliver an un-retouched image if I can avoid it.

[pellepiano]

Originally Posted by di_dia

I like this style...but does anybody know about this technique?

They look like images that have been treated in Illustrator with the Gradient Meshes.

//CloseUp
http://www.creativebush.com/tutorial...enSnapz017.jpg

//Tutorial
http://www.creativebush.com/tutorials/mesh_tutorial.php

[di_dia]

pellepiano,
wow ...
thanks a lot

[shellby]

KR1156 - thanks for that link I really love that site. I have seen it before a while back.

Those Illustrator drawings are really stunning, but I think I will be sticking with Photoshop retouching... that looks like another world. Love it though.

I have removed those first attached images.

[Kraellin]

thanks, shelby.

there's no reason you cant put the links to them in here, btw. that's perfectly fine.