Retouch this Picture to your hearts content

[aartist]

MiningArt, loved the song.
You've done lots of great work in this one thread alone.

[MiningArt]

Thanks aartist, when I saw Lyle's ice gal the song pop in my head.

[lkroll]

Don't like reading John, but did a quick browse of the poem you posted after I saw your response to aartist. lol

[MiningArt]

Worked on the lips, her right eye and neck hair removal.

[MiningArt]

This is the original and my last version. Here I just backed off on the color and muted the hat a little. This has been a good learning exercise and my first attempt at retouching something. I can see where you get down to adjusting individual pixels to make fine changes. Thanks 204studios for making this image available to practice on.
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Of those posting I like leuallen, Larry's version the most.

[LKB]

Great Pic .. took a try at editing it

[leuallen]

MiningArt - John

Thanks for the complement.

I did this as practice after watching the Amy Dresser live broadcast. It was a departure from the way I normally work.

Many pixels were harmed in the the creation of this image - I worked with the dodge, burn, sponge, and stamp tools directly on a copy of the image to smooth the skin.

I used curves and Hue/Sat layers with masks to even out the skin tones. This really seems to make a difference. I was suprised to see how may layers Amy uses for this process. I used 14 little patches, many more than I had ever used before.

I used a softlight layer layer to bring out highlights and deepen shadows after the skin work was done. This is her signature 'carve' layer. I did not use her 'sparkle white' technique or the high pass sharpening.

I darkened the neck area with a curves layer/mask and a slight darkening vignette to bring out the face more.

When I was nearly done I noticed that the lower right jaw line was too prominent so I did a copy stamp of the work up to that point and used liquify to bring in the jaw slightly. This should have been done before the other work was started and the liguified layer copied to act as a new master so that when I was done, I could dial back the opacity to taste. I can't on this image as the retouch layer is now not in register with the base layer due to the liquify step. I tend to overretouch somewhat and like to reduce the effect when finished by chaning the opacity of the retouch group. I learned my lesson from this image and will now study the image more carefully before starting and do any liquify required at the beginning of the process.

Larry

[Quantum3]

A RAW File would be more interesting. However, thanks for the generosity.

[Mihai]

Here's my shot at it. Since it's not really comissioned work I took the liberty of a minor structural change. I've included some 100% crops since there can't go much detail in a 100k file.

Mihai


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[uretouch]

HI

I have done this image. Please have a look.

Thanks

Amarjeet

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by uretouch

HI

I have done this image. Please have a look.

Thanks

Amarjeet

I think you forgot to attach it ^^

[Just Kit]

Hi Everyone... great site. I'm not a retoucher but I wanted to try this challenge. It was addicting!
I would LOVE it if you guys would give me hard cc. Tell me everything I did wrong and what I omitted. Now, if only I knew what size we are suppose to post... :0

[Quantum3]

Originally Posted by Just Kit

Hi Everyone... great site. I'm not a retoucher but I wanted to try this challenge. It was addicting!
I would LOVE it if you guys would give me hard cc. Tell me everything I did wrong and what I omitted. Now, if only I knew what size we are suppose to post... :0

Love your enthusiasm! Welcome to retouchPro, mate.

You can upload the picture to Flickr (the full res) and a little thumbnail here. Max allowed by the site is 100K.

Mart

[Just Kit]

Ok thank you, I hope i uploaded the images correctly.

This is the first image I ever retouched, I've only cleaned up and post processed the photos I take. It was really fun to me and I would love to get a wacom tablet to do it some more. The mouse was really tedious. What size would you guys recommend?

Here's what I did to the photo:
1.Cleaned up the blemishes and lines on her face with the healing tool.
2.removed the hair from all around her face, some with healing and some with clone tool.
3. Fixed her mouth by copying the right side and pasting to left side, then warping. Liquified to bring some of ther top lip down. (she was snarling a little lol)
4. Burned and dodged on her lips to give it some form and darken it.
5. used a curves layer to deepen contrast in her eyes. Added some light opposite catchlight.
6. Filled in eyebrows and reshaped by cloning around them. (now that was a pain!)
7. Burned and dodged her neck then darkened it a little.
8. Made her chin smaller by warping.
9. made neck smaller also.
10. sampled her skin color and did a color fill on hue blending mode and masked to even out skin tone a little. (prob not enough)
11. hue/sat layer to lighten and desat the skin a little.
12.over all burning at low opacity to try to contour her face. (not really sure how to do that though)
13. selective sharpened her eyes, mouth, nostrils and a little on her hair and hoodie.

as far as I can remember, that's it.
ETA: oh yeah, I also copied her eye lashes from her left eye and pasted onto her right eye to hide my nasty looking hair clone around that eye. lol

Please don't hold back on the criticism.. The tougher the better!





Here's the full rez.

http://www.photosbykit.com/retouchpro/full_rez.jpg

Thank you so much!!
ETA: added original thumb to compare...

[aartist]

I like what you have done.
Also, liked the great description of your retouch steps.
You put me to shame in both categories.

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! !