[ecols]

for hosting of HQ vids i totally recommend vimeo.com.. It's free and it's HD, perfect to get minor changes in skin texture, you won't be able to see in youtube vids..


BTW Godmother: I just added you to my flickr contacts..

[Godmother]

SORRY I haven't read the last.. I don't know like 15 comments lol
ok...

Originally Posted by toxic_snake

i've tried to contact you but I never had the chance to have your contact info

How come??? My info is everywhere! Just google me.

Originally Posted by studionewmarket

"give her some glow fillining the whites with whites"

When you have retouched the image if you want that WET or really SHINNY look, you can fill the whites with white:

AMY DRESSER: this may possibly be my only "trick." This has to be done as a final step or it will magnify any so-called-flaws that are white in nature. Make a new empty layer on top of everything. with pure white selected as the foreground color in the tool bar go to Select > Color Range. The whites of the image should already be selected by default. Move the fuzziness slider so the slightest dusting of selection will be made (click selection radio vs. image radio), hit OK. Fill this selection with white. Mask or erase out what is too much. sometimes i blur this layer a bit.

Originally Posted by studionewmarket

"lips", "some painting, shading and texturing", what mode is used for paining? didn't see if it was changed to anyhting else from normal, but normal mode would seem to destroy the details.

Yes it does destroy the details when you have them If you don't have texture or details to work with you MAKE THEM.

I always paint in normal mode because I only pain where texture is not needed or not there in the first place.

Originally Posted by studionewmarket

Also how does degrunge complement d&b? On the surface it looks like degrunge at least to some degree is destructive with application of gaussian blur, yet the whole point of d&b is to preserve every single detail (which is not possible with healing etc), very time consuming and requiring quite a bit of patience and experience (at least I am finding it still quite difficult to cover the area correctly).
Thank you.
Peter

D&B an entire image takes more than 10 hours. Not all clients have more than 10 hours of retouching budget and not all images are printed larger than A3. And not all the images your work on are VOGUE COVERS

Originally Posted by MatthewMarshall

The only thing im wondering is she looks way smooth in the end and her eyes are way too bright. I dont know if this your style, or if the youtube vid just gives no justice. I may have missed it but did you place a higher res of the final in this post?

I didn't post a higher res one... I think...
I would now, but I don't have it on my regular disk and I'm lazy (Like really lazy) The compression of the vid tends to play with contrast and that's why it looks so white, but then I used to make eyes REALLY shinny... I think it depends on the image now a days or the client. Matte is really IN right now.

Originally Posted by AliasAngel

Wow, I'm impressed. If you need a place to host a high-res version of the video, you can use my site.

Originally Posted by ecols

for hosting of HQ vids i totally recommend vimeo.com.. It's free and it's HD, perfect to get minor changes in skin texture, you won't be able to see in youtube vids..

About actually hosting THAT vid... well I made that Video when I was PC based and now I have mac the vid seems corrupted here in my new shinny imac. Another thing... I have a screen capture soft a friend let me to try and the vids end up being really really heavy (like more than 100 GB) I have no idea how to make that smaller.
Another thing I'm writing a tutorial chris is helping me with the english (tho I made the high pass thing on my blog all by my self
But I have had some threats against publishing it for free it's kind of crazy but it made me think about it...


Anyway... thanks for all your comments and for watching my little vid. I'm glad it even helped some of you. I just made that vid to show ppl there's no 5 minute trick that does it all

[arthursoares]

natalia,

you're good

[pixelzombie]

Originally Posted by Godmother

About actually hosting THAT vid... well I made that Video when I was PC based and now I have mac the vid seems corrupted here in my new shinny imac. Another thing... I have a screen capture soft a friend let me to try and the vids end up being really really heavy (like more than 100 GB) I have no idea how to make that smaller.
Another thing I'm writing a tutorial chris is helping me with the english (tho I made the high pass thing on my blog all by my self
But I have had some threats against publishing it for free it's kind of crazy but it made me think about it...


Anyway... thanks for all your comments and for watching my little vid. I'm glad it even helped some of you. I just made that vid to show ppl there's no 5 minute trick that does it all

if you're using Snapz Pro X you will have to lower the frame setting to 5 and record in sections to make the files more managable, you can then use MPEG Streamclip(which is free) to export them as mp4 files which reduce the file size significantly especially when you reduce the frame size to 640X480, try this out and let me know how it works for you...

[Hendrik]

I use GOM player to reduce speed, it's great. The movie is very nice, it's a bit pity the resolution is low, but still valuable. Thanks!

[Nanls]

Originally Posted by Godmother

Hey I got to where I am in 2 years, so maybe you get there sooner than that

Good luck

Natalia

Great job on the video Natalia. Here is a blast from the past : http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/cri...you-think.html

I only remember this post where you asked for critiques of your image because it was so different from the typical glam images we get. As you stated "the first I've done for my RETOUCH & MANIPULATION portfolio." Big difference time and practice can make.
It would still be a good challenge image for people here who want to practice skin work.

Keep up the good work!!!!!!!
~Nancy

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[Godmother]

Originally Posted by Nanls

Here is a blast from the past
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You made me smile
Thanks

[quadupix]

Originally Posted by Gonzaga

Hi!

If you want watch the movie slower you can do it like that.

Download the movie and convert it to AVI. There's a site that's called http://vixy.net where you can have the conversion done online - just paste in the youtube link.

Then open the AVI in Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=205650). That nice little player allows you to increase and decrease the speed of the movie and you can even watch the frames step by step.

Take care ... Andreas.

I have done exactly that but when i click on the decrease button the video even plays faster....weired

[041567970]

Hey Natalia!
Can we expect something new on your blog? LOL I am visiting your blog every few hours just to see if there is something new that I can learn from. Are you doing a longer version of the video?

Well sorry for bothering you, I know you are busy...

bye!

[roberto]

Thank you very much to share your skill with us; but why don' t you think about a tutorial? I'm not speaking about a free one.

all the best
Roberto Tartaglione