[anonimo]

Originally Posted by superkoax

anonimo: No paying...it's free...onlye register...sxc.hu is a nice site!

Gerry

Oh OK THANK YOU!

[jimhob]

Hi all, First time poster been lurking for a week or two. Here is my attempt. I attached the image crossing fingers that it's actually there since I don't see a way to view it.

There really wasn't that much to do to this image. Oh well her it is....

Take care,
Jim

Please feel free to rip my attempt.

[roxxannas]

are u making fun of me? the girl in the picture is really me. some of you did nice work, but the others made fun of me. can you try to be more attached to art, not to just making fun?

[mygreeneyez]

Here is my take on it. I just cleaned up the blemishes, lightened and rotated her eyes, saturated it more and lightened some of the shadows.

mytake.jpg

[irshgrlkc]

Originally Posted by roxxannas

are u making fun of me? the girl in the picture is really me. some of you did nice work, but the others made fun of me. can you try to be more attached to art, not to just making fun?

Hi Roxxanas,

I want to assure you I'm not making fun of you and I don't think anyone else here is either. I picked this photo to work on because I thought the girl in it was very pretty and had almost near perfect skin (so jealous!), much like you might get for a high-end fashion shoot. Being an aspiring retoucher, it is hard to find actual high-end pictures to work on and when I saw yours I thought it would be perfect to try out several techniques and practice.

Check out this site, you'll see we don't make fun of the pictures we use. This site is a learning tool to improve our skills.

Thank you for sharing your photo on stock.xchng and allowing us to use it as a learning tool.

[linus_photo]

I agree with it being to soft, so I added new skin texture, brightened/darkened all over, work with hair details, yet still going for a natural "in the movies" feeling.
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[CathyH]

Hi Kerry
Here is what I did. Roxxanne is very pretty and I tried to glamorizer even more.