Photo Retouching - - Fashion retouch - Page 2

videosean · #16 02-25-2007, 03:20 AM

I actually just went at this before reading your list so it's interesting to see what I hit and missed... I saw a giganto image and got excited

>Less redness and pitmarks in my face.
-General healing brush for the pit marks. I work really small/detailed for this. I'm not sure about the redness you're concerned with.

>Make that little fat pudgy mark near my lips at the bottom of my cheek go away.
-Duplicate layer, make a curves adjustment to make it noticeably lighter, add a "hide all" mask (black) and paint in the lightness with white on the mask... I used this other place but not there so much.

>Fix my crazy eyebrows (need a wax.. meep).
-Cloning and healing brushes.

>Fix the hair that is all over the place above/beside my eyebrow.
-Cloning and healing - I didn't go as far as you'd like there I'd imagine, I was getting frustrated, moved on and didn't get back to it.

>Remove the little hair sticking out on the black background along my eyes/eyebrow area.
-Burn tool, hit highlights and midtones where you want to remove it. I kept the brow and lashes that are sticking out from the other side of the face.

>One of my fingernails is chipped, going to fix that too.
-Cloning and a little dodging. I think I hit every nail.

>Also, this one is more minor to me, but you'll notice my hair is lighter at the ends, I'm growing out many years of hair dying, but I wasn't sure of a good way to fix that.. Any tips?
-I would suggest trying the burn tool on midtones and maybe highlights. I thought your hair looked a little thin towards the bottom and the neckline was showing through so I tried to do some fill for that via careful cloning... and covered the tattoo just to see if I could pull that off decently.

I'm not happy with what I ended up with for skin texture in the hi-res version but it doesn't look as bad sized down. I usually don't try for crazier 'over the top' stuff because I usually just don't like those... or maybe it's because I'm not good enough

grannysdc · #17 02-25-2007, 03:57 AM

Well, you did say "feel free to do what you want!" Everyone here is much more capable of retouching your picture than I and they have presented some beautiful examples and tips on how they achieved their results.. I am impressed with the quality of the help here.. But, to be honest the loose hair above and beside the eyebrow gave me a fit and I could not attain an even skin, so out of frustration I moved to another avenue of approach.. Mostly different layers like multiply, screen, normal, dissolve, difference, and even a layer of a colored sketch.. after flattening the image I brought in a layer with the original picture put it on the bottom and erased the lips and eye to let the originals show through.. Used the History brush to lighten the eye using Screen and darkened the lips using Multiply.. Then changed the tilt a lil
Granny

SMURPHY405 · #18 02-25-2007, 05:58 PM

Sorry for bothering, will lurk and practice more

superkoax · #19 02-25-2007, 06:47 PM

smurph: skin retouch isn't good, eyebrow isn't looking good on the end, the eyelashes look abit fake...

gerry

zganie · #20 02-25-2007, 06:57 PM

I had a quick go just wanted to try something did blur overlay a bit of noise thats it
zganie

SMURPHY405 · #21 02-25-2007, 07:45 PM

Thanks, Gerry. Just got PS and saw tutorials. Got a long way to go but wanted to practice any way.

nyxxie · #22 02-25-2007, 09:48 PM

Syd, I love your version. Excellent.

itscanon · #23 02-26-2007, 01:09 AM

Hi,
I think since this section is all about Retouching then no need to mention what could have been done to take the shot itself.

here is my attempt, i tried to keep it natural looking as i could , tried to keep whatever detail there is in the pic only removed what might be considered flaws.

dromatador · #24 03-19-2007, 04:36 AM

hey all --

gave it a shot... actually three variations... first one is trying for as natural as i could make it... the hair on the face gave me the most issues... the other two are color variants and contrast variants, for fun mostly...

nothing complicated --
minutiae detail with healing brush
then used marquee tool and used brush on layer by layer (by taste)
that's it...

will remind me to be more wary of the model's hair when i take my next photo, WHEW!!!

thanx for posting the gigantor pic! had much fun --
d

edgework · #25 03-19-2007, 08:05 AM

A different slant:

http://edgework.tripod.com/samples/hi-key.jpg

RokcetScientist · #26 03-19-2007, 09:41 AM

Also had a go. Used blurring and clone tool for the skin blemishes, the nail and some of the hair (pay attention at your next shoot!), brightened eye-white, slightly more saturation on the iris and lips.

Usually I take a screenhot of the 'before' and 'after' images side-by-side to show the differences. But these had to be scaled down to 33% to fit my screen and the differences are too subtle to show up on a scaled down side-by-side. Let alone in a file that's smaller than 100KB!

So you can download the resultant full-size 3.8MB file from IMG_7261 RS01.jpg .

Have fun!

Cassidy · #27 03-19-2007, 10:00 AM

looks like a battered wife on my monitor, mind you having a few calibation probs here atm

G Deezy · #28 03-23-2007, 01:31 PM

Hi Syd,

I love the skin texture, did you use an existing skin texture at all? I really like what you did with the lighting as well, it's all about the little details.

Anyways, here's my version.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Syd

Aurora

1. "Less redness and pitmarks in your face" I used the healing brush here - very soft brush, new layer, constantly sampling and the radius of the brush no bigger than the spot. If you don't like the result go one step backward, resample and try again until it looks natural. I also desaturated the image by about a third.

2. "Make that little fat pudgy mark near my lips at the bottom of my cheek go away" Dodge the shadow away, blend with the healing brush and use the Liquify tool if necessary.

3. "Fix my crazy eyebrows (need a wax.. meep)." I used the Liquify tool to lift up your eyebrow, dodged away the darker hairs and blended with the healing brush.

4. "Fix the hair that is all over the place above/beside my eyebrow" Again, dodge away the darker hairs and clean it up with the Healing Brush, dodge and burn again if necessary.

5. "Remove the little hair sticking out on the black background along my eyes/eyebrow area.
One of my fingernails is chipped, going to fix that too." Both of these are easily fixed with the clone tool. As the background is black and has no pattern you don't have to be particularly careful either.

6. "Also, this one is more minor to me, but you'll notice my hair is lighter at the ends, I'm growing out many years of hair dying, but I wasn't sure of a good way to fix that.. Any tips?" Open a new layer, sample your natural hair color and with a low opacity brush and the layer's blend mode set to color, paint away. Stop when it looks natural.

Sincerely Syd

Syd · #29 03-23-2007, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by G Deezy

Hi Syd,

I love the skin texture, did you use an existing skin texture at all? I really like what you did with the lighting as well, it's all about the little details.

Anyways, here's my version.

Thank you G Deezy. That is her original skin texture. That effect comes from dodging and burning. Sometimes, oddly enough, the skin looks 'more real' after dodging and burning than it did before. I like your version too.

Sincerely Syd

Lasa · #30 03-23-2007, 08:01 PM

Cleaned up the skin with the healing patch. Then softened the skin with the Portraiture plugin. added a low opacity light white under the eyes, and low opacity over the eyes..(5%)..added a hue/sat adjustment to add some skin tone. Lightened the eyes and made the eye reflection smaller...Used the liquify tool to rearrange little things help soften the edges and angles..

Hope you like it.

Lasa