Nice Girls Glam retouch, what can I do?

[ecols]

Hi there!

I'm chriss (call me ecols ) and I'm pretty new to retouching. I shot this pic of a girl and was quite surprised to see what came out. I really think she IS good looking, but the photo doesn't at all show that..

So I wnated to ask the community to show me, what glam retouches they'd do! Can You show me Your results and explain what You did?

This is the original Pic:
http://ecols.de/images/retouch/first.jpg

And this is my first try:
http://ecols.de/images/retouch/first_retouch.jpg

What I did was: cleaning the skin with the "Copy Stamp" tool (green layer), slimming the cheeks, bit of makeup (just a brush),
the 2 color correction layers, one fir the background, one for the girl.

How do Your results look like?

I'm curious!

ecols

[jessibelle15]

I did this super quick just to give you an idea of how I would approach it. I just slimmed her cheeks slightly and then enhanced her features. Made her eyes, brows and lips more prominent. Then gave her some cheek bones using curves. I took out some of the magenta in her skin tone, but kept her cheeks pink being that it looks pretty cool out. Lastly I just made the overall image less flat.
It's not a great retouch by any means, just meant to give a quick example of one way to glam it up a bit.

[hexi]

20 min
retouching
learning by doing! try and try and try .....

http://www.retouchpro.com/gallery/da...sche_Kopie.jpg

lg

[Gary Richardson]

I don't generally do retouch jobs on girls, so all I've really done is clean up the pic a little.

Removed obvious blemishes, opened up the pupils of her eyes by about 50%, opened up her mouth a touch (about 5%), and did a general colour correction.

Finally cropped a bit closer to minimise the BG a touch.

[ecols]

Thank You guys!

You really inspired me.. I had a second go and didn't exagerate (I hope so).
I left the "rough" stuff like cheeks, lips, because I've got to do some tutorials to get those as natural as You do.

Tell me what You think, and keep on posting your versions!

[BillFrey]

Some color adjustments and shading. I hope I didn't over do it.

Edit: added a lighter retouch

[DCobb]

I just wanted to use this for a little practice.

dc

[edgework]

Thought I'd try to imagine her with some shadows and contours in her face.

http://edgework.tripod.com/samples/first_retouched.jpg

[hexi]

Hallo Ecols,

entweder dein Bildschirm ist schlecht eingestellt oder es fällt dir selber nicht auf das in deinem Bild zu viel Magenta (Rosa) ist

wenn du in Photoshop auf info gehts sollte der Magentaanteil nie höher sein als der Yellowanteil

Hautunreinheiten und andere Störungen auf der Haut werden mit dem Reparatur Werkzeug (nicht mit dem Clonestempel) entfernt

hoffe das hilft dir
Viel Spaß beim üben ;-)

lg
manuela

now in english

Hello Ecols,

maybe your srceen have not the right colours or you overlook that your Image have to much Magenta

If you go in Photoshop to Info the Magentacolour should not be higher than the yellow colour

for better results blemishes should be removed with the Healing Brush Tool

have fun by trying

Manuela

[ecols]

Thanks a lot! I really had to recalibrate my screen!
I'll try that healing brush thing..

danke !

[keiser]

Did this fairly quick

healing brush,
makeup
eyelashes
added hair
cropped and sharpened

[Alison]

Hi ecols,

Quick effort from me. I would suggest that this isn't really the right environment or does the pretty young girl have the correct attire on to turn her into a glamour puss.

With that in mind, I cropped to make her the focus of attention and blurred out the background. This is in no way a finished image - used a levels adjustment layer, healing, cloning, high pass, gaussian blur, curves adjustment layer, lots of masking.

Just looked at the image ..... eek! .... it could do with some sharpening :-)

[Wolfman]

I tried to keep it natural and real.

[grannysdc]

Ran through Imagenomic portraiture filter
Replaced background
Cloned, Healed, history
Added Eyelashes, cheek color on new layers
Curves. slight sharpen

[Ayumi]

Ok, my turn now. Sowwy for low quality.

p.s Sometimes you guys using too much make-up on poor natural girls :3 ^^

[ecols]

She really looks VERY young on some of Your pics.. I think I should have mentioned that she's 25 now No, I'm not kidding..

Wolfman: I really like Yours.. It's a bit more mature

[pixeltek]

hey ecols...i had time at work so i thought i'd give this pic of your friend a try. she is really very beautiful! hope you like it...i tried to keep it natural.

[prizo]

I think

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2186/...f00f3ea8_o.jpg

[One4UAll]

To my mind, BillFrey's rendition is the best because it makes the photo a true portrait. That background has got to go!

[ArtC1]

I gave her wavy hair too! :oD

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f9...ter/first2.jpg

[ecols]

Thanks everybody for Your work! You really inspired me ans posted really good results!

I'll do some more retouch excercises, tuts & stuff to improve.

[MartinBabies]

Hmm, I gave it a shot. Could be a lot better but oh well.
What I did was "fixing" her cheeks, softening her (already soft) skin, removed some shadows in her face, added new shadows on the sides of her face, adding some highlights here and there, applying a little contrast and some more color.

[BillFrey]

Thank you, One4UAll, your compliment is appreciated.

[Cassidy]

Quite difficult on this one, not to end up with a painted look.

[Mining Art]

I darken her skin slightly, added a red tint to her hair and highlighted her lips with the pink to match the coat trim. Brought out her blue eyes and cropped out to a taller picture.

[Out_Of_Focus]

here my try at it went more natural looking just cleaned it up some

[klassylady25]

Thanks for sharing. She was fun to work with.

[luqingcc]

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[luqingcc]

hello, I am a chinese.

[ppk]

Here's my quick try.

Oh and my 1st post so hi everyone =)