Need help and inspiration ...

[novi1]

Hi,

i'm new to this forum and need some help with a picture.

Maybe some of you could give me some inspiration, what to do with that pic
I have some ideas how to retouch it...but i'm interested in some other opinions...

Feel free to experiment with the pic and repost it to the forum.

Full size:
http://s3.directupload.net/images/070730/293ZDAI8.jpg

Greetz
Novi

[Swampy]

Greetz, First of all, welcome to RetouchPRO. :-)

Your photo needs color correction. There is a definite greent color cast and is very flat. I did a levels adjustment to correct the green cast and reduced the resulting harsh reds with a hue saturation in the reds by shifting them more towards yellow.

[DCobb]

This is my try. Very lovely young lady.

-I used a 3rd party filter for color correction.
-Reduced some of the redness in the face--at least it was on my monitor.
-Enlarged the pupil in the eyes.
-Smoothed the facial skin texture.

dc

[Nikolas]

Hey novi, nice photograph, did you snap this one?

I gotta tell you, I didn't do a whole heck of a lot with this photo, because your subject is a naturally beautiful young lady. The consensus is that the photo needs a slight colour correction, simply because it has slightly more green/cyan in it. All I did was colour correct, adjust the pupils, and soften the face slightly.

Here are the stages I took to adjust your photo:

- After colour correcting, create a new layer
- Using the Paintbrush tool, paint in a pupil roughly the same size as the one in the photograph
- put a smaller white dot in the black dot (to resemble a light) I did it in the upper left corner.
- I dropped the opacity of the layer to about 60% so that the layers below would be visible, and so it's not such a harsh black dot.
- Make duplicate layer of the master
- Make a selection of the face
- Mask the selection of the face
- Put a Gaussian blur on the duplicate (masked) layer
- Paint the mask so that the eyes, brows, hair, mouth, etc. are not effected by the Gaussian blur.
- Adjust the opacity of the duplicate (masked) layer, so there is the appearance of a slight softness. Mine was dropped to 48%

I hope this works out for you, and if you have any more questions, don't be afraid to ask!

[irshgrlkc]

Welcome, here are a few steps I took...

1. Color correction as picture is too yellow (also used a selective color adjustment layer with mask to get rid of some of the redness in the face)
2. Healing for the few blemishes
3. A VERY light skin degrunge (tutorial in the tutorial sections)
4. Played with brightness & contrast to make it pop

And my result...

[philbach]

I did pretty much of the same. Adjust color. Darkened the face some and adjusted the red. Softened the blemishes some

[Gary]

I..
- corrected the green color cast 'by the number's' using the wihte and blacks of her top
- curves to darken the light BG
- enlarged the pupils & saturated the colors of her eyes using masked duplicate layer in Overlay mode
- matched the overall skin tone by painting on a blank layer in color mode with a low opacity brush and Paint With Light II action (atncentral.com)
- softened her skin with Kent's Skin Fix action from http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm
- sharpened and added a vignette to darken the borders.

[LonK]

Hi Novi. Welcome.

Pretty girl. I gave her my whole beauty treatment. Biggest problems to overcome were flat, hot lighting and color bleeding from ambient surroundings.

[novi1]

Hey Folks,

thanks alot for your comments and your work... I love the diffent versions.

@DCobb: Thanks I will give your compliment to her

@Nikolas: Yes, it's my shot...we do a long shooting outsite. I got arount 80 Pics of her... the green cast is because of the green gras and the sunny day

@Lonk
I luv your version... maybe a bit to perfect but excellent work. thanks

Maybe i will post another pic of her to the forum to play with... so i can get more inspirations from the forum.....

Greetings from good old germany...

Novi

[Syd]

I cropped this one so I could post a larger version without losing too much quality.

Syd

[novi1]

Hey Syd,

this version is beautiful. Her eyes are getting more interesting.
i think she will love it

thanks alot

Novi

[Syd]

It's my pleasure Novi!

Syd

[keiser]

HI

I tried to give her a little glamour treatment

removed blemishes, hot spots on face
lightened eyes
added eyelashes to fill in
darkened lips
blurred background
sharpened
color corrected

Hope u like!

also included a close crop so you could see the face

[CathyH]

Hi - I wanted to give this a try too. Very nice photo.
I used a chanels adjustment layer set to luminosity monochrome checked to reduce the red. Then lowered the opacity of that layer.

[Hargoth]

quick 3 minute job.. various custom actions that soften skin, highpass filter, add contrast then desaturate, color filters ADD yellow that make the image look surreal, etc etc

[bella]

Here is my try.

Color Correction
Cloned away a few blemishes
Added hair
Curves for contrast
Sharpen

[novi1]

@keiser
your skin work is very good...i like it...but (on my screen) i got a little red cast on your version. do you have calibrated your screen?

@CathyH
nice beautywork... i love the contrast in your version

@Hargoth
yeah, thats the things i want to see i luv the reflections in her hair with that strong contrast. also her skin got a darker tint... thanks alot!!

@bella
thanks for your nice and decent (i hope this is the right english expression) work

[keiser]

Thanks,

I might need to look into calibrating. There was no red on my end. Glad you liked it.

[byRo]

Originally Posted by keiser

I might need to look into calibrating. There was no red on my end.

Yes it's quite a problem when posting images around here. What was perfect on your screen, suddenly looks "gawdy" (much too red) when posted.

- Try the colour option "Don't colour manage", and then save using the "Save for Web" command (<Shift><Ctrl><Alt><S>).
- If your colours are about right, there's a button at the bottom of the "Save for Web" screen where you can "try out" the image in your browser.
- Also, after uploading to RetouchPRO, you can click on your image in "Manage Attachments" and see how it's going to look.

Here's mine. Did a lot of little things. Also rotated and cropped (had to clone a bit of tree).
Tried to be a bit more "natural" than "glamour".

Rô

[howzitboy]

Originally Posted by LonK

Hi Novi. Welcome.

Pretty girl. I gave her my whole beauty treatment. Biggest problems to overcome were flat, hot lighting and color bleeding from ambient surroundings.

now thats what i call a touch-up!! awesome job LonK!!
whats your whole beauty treatment? care to share?