Pretty girl for retouching practice

[Graphirus]

Hello!

I am making another of my discarded pictures available to the forum members for practicing. Once again, if someone is interested just let me know and I'll give you a link to a full-res tiff file for you to play on.

PS. I would love to see really stunning works from this one and who knows, maybe I can find a retouch artist to help me and work with me when overloaded )

[julianmarsalis]

I will take a shot at it..

[Graphirus]

Great, Julian!

You all should know this, but just in case: If you like your result and would like to use the retouched image on your own portfolio, be my guest. Just don't forget to credit me as the photographer and put a link back to my own site ))

[cruel.frames]

Thanks for the great shot Will give it a try when I have more free time!
Cheers!

Nikolay

[julianmarsalis]

Originally Posted by Graphirus

Great, Julian!

You can download the file (106,6 Mb 16/bit tiff) from http://www.butterflyphoto.ru/images/Anechka-119.tif.zip

You all should know this, but just in case: If you like your result and would like to use the retouched image on your own portfolio, be my guest. Just don't forget to credit me as the photographer and put a link back to my own site ))

Sure sure how would you like to be formally credited??? I will send you a high res version if you like my work as well.

Thanks
Julian

[SandiG]

I also will take a shot at it. Thanks.

Sandi

[Boneappetit]

I know, it has some mistakes and i couldn't deal very well with her hair but here is one of many possible renders...

It also lost texture with the downsize but oh well...

[JohnnyQuest007]

May I give it a try, since it has been slow at work, and also, may I add this to my portfolio if it deems successful, with credit to whoever own the shot/photo?
Again, thanks!

[edgework]

Here are a couple of images. By the way, she's not a pretty girl. She's drop-dead gorgeous. But that's just one man's opinion.

This one is the full shot at 25%

http://edgework.tripod.com/anechka/A..._25percent.jpg

And this is cropped at 50%

http://edgework.tripod.com/anechka/A...rcent_crop.jpg

[Siciliana]

Thanks for the file. I had a go at it while I was watching a movie this evening. The skin is not perfect yet (still needs more correction), I would like to come back later and finish this off, but I'm off to bed now and who knows when I'll get back to it... so here's my version, in progress.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rastere...in/photostream

[Graphirus]

I'm seeing some good retouches in here! Keep'em comin'! ))

If you wanna credit me you can use this line: Francisco Garrido/Butterfly Photography

[JohnnyQuest007]

cool and thanks!

[JohnnyQuest007]

I like how Siciliana's came out, and actually my file is very similiar to yours. I like how her skin doesn't go to smooth and the original texture of her skin is still visible.

[daygraphics]

Originally Posted by Boneappetit

I know, it has some mistakes and i couldn't deal very well with her hair but here is one of many possible renders...

It also lost texture with the downsize but oh well...

Boneappetit... I think you did a great job. I would be very satisfied with that at a higher resolution. Beautiful. My only suggestion would be be brighter eyes and whiter teeth. That seems to be my pet peeve - although sometimes natural lighting doesn't call for it. But in a portrait setting like this with strobe - I like to make the teeth white (even if she is holding a red shiny lipstick sleeve in her mouth)!

[Siciliana]

Here is a slightly improved(I think, at least) version of the one I did last night. After my evening cocktail wore off and I looked at it again this morning, I decided to tone down the extreme color I was playing with, I smoothed out some of the tonal transitions and enlarged the eyes slightly.

For some reason every time I look at this picture, I think of replacing the lipstick tube with an ear of corn.

~Amy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rastere...in/photostream