Please help me with retouching

[vision100]

Hi,
I tried to take my photo (test_b) as possibly same as the other photo (test_a). I also tried it looks same as for the color tones, but I couldn't do it. I will be more than happy if someone would help and have a look at it and if that someone would find out how to solve it, to write me the way how. Thank you very much.

[Cassidy]

Somehow you have plumped up the face there

[vision100]

I don't know what you mean by that, but the thing I want to know is about the color tones.

[Cassidy]

I personally think you need to tone it bit, you cannot change the eyes convincingly, so you must soften a little with screen and multiply as thus... deeper curves would give a better image i'd think

[vision100]

Well, I guess we didn't understand each other, because I want to change the second photo to make it similar to the first one.

[Cassidy]

personally vision I think you have altered the basic image, this lass has much sharper attributes

[vision100]

I am solving more the difference of the skin tones.

[MisterJP]

Easiest way is to drop a couple of eyedropper sample points. On my example, I placed a point on the same spot on each of the girl's cheeks. After recording what the RGB values are on the target girl A, I went into curves and adjusted the values until girl B matched. Then a quick tweak for a more visual match.

Is this what you're looking for?

[vision100]

Thank you, looks good, I thought it was going to be much harder to do.
I would maybe think it's still a bit different , but I guess that's the make-up thing.

[MisterJP]

I agree, it could be closer . . . but this took me about a minute to do and shows the overall procedure, so you get the idea. Makeup and overall lighting has a lot to do the remaining differences. One has more contrast and saturation compared to the other.

[madclark]

Have you tried using the Match Color feature?

[vision100]

I've just tried it now, but I don't find it very easy.

[madclark]

Here's my try. I cheated a lot with color overlays and lots of correction layers for hues, brightness and curves. Very organic and not structured and some of it doesn't make sense but I'll try to document it quickly.

1. Softened the skin tone. Duplicated the background, used the median filter, added monotone gaussian noise, gaussian blur. 100% opacity. masked around all crisp details.

2. Added a color layer to even the skin. An appropriate flesh tone with opacity at 25%

3. A photo filter to warm it up.

4. Hue/Saturation layer to boost main saturation and reds but lower lightness.

5. A color layer to retone the makeup in the orange rouge and purple eyeshadow.

6. A brightness/Contrast layer to reduce the contrast.

7. A layer with white in the upper right corner to 25% opacity to duplicate the lighting effect in the original.

8. A Hue/Saturation layer for the lips to darken the color.

9. A Curves layer with the white point reduced and the midpoint set to bump up highlights and contrast.

10. A Hue/Saturation layer to change the background color to light purple.

11. A luminosity layer using a textured white brush to highlight highlights

[Rydiant]

Match Color works better on some images than others. With these images it might be more useful to apply the Match Color effects to specific selections. Like Extract, Match Color's results are often best used as a starting point from which to make further refinements.

Nice job, BTW, madclark.

[enigmaphotos]

This was more difficult than I first thought. Got pretty close but still not quite there.

Adjusted the face shape a little, eyes, nose
Warmed up the photo (a few times... LOL)
Added broad highlights and shadows
Added detailed highlights and shadows
Punched colour on lips
Contrast
Red photo filter for hair (masked)
Add glare from lights.
Added some noise as your photo was too 'clean'

I didn't bother with the background though.

Good excercise that one.