what you think?

[tania622]

is the second pic's pp too much?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2742211604_7f1a808d2b_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2742211440_4a3f1d1d97_b.jpg

[paul33]

Sorry but they look like two corpses !

I would worry about getting some skin tone in the mix first and then look out for one of many actions/methods for smoothing skin on a selective basis rather than just hitting the entire image indiscriminately ...... which just makes it look out of focus.

[auroraskye]

Yes.. why are you even smoothing anything, there is nothing THERE to smooth they both have wonderful skin. If it's not broke, don't fix it. However, I would adjust your color. It's very gray/blue looking.

[_aravena]

Color needs to be edited before skin smoothing. Sure the smoothing is nice but give them color!!!

[Enche]

you might want to correct it with adjusting the white balance

[LeesaB]

It looks soft to me...color is a bit too much processed. Try it again and back off hte processing a bit..

[noxcuses1]

Since you had image editing ok on your profile, I played around with the pics in Lightroom.



Also, being a licensed Professional Cosmetologist (17 years!), WHY do women line their under eyes with black eyeliner so harshly!!??!! Just my observation and nothing to do with your photos. :)



edited: I think my eyes are overworked today. :)

[Grace]

I think the problem starts with what mode you've saved the pic in...its not for web viewing. The moment I took the pic into ps the color was fine...and I think their skin is fine. A little selective burning around the eyes and a light opacity brush burning around the cheek area really set their eyes. I also cropped a bit. I didn't run any softening action at all. Burn, dodge a little cloning and noise ninja. In fact I sharpened the image.

I think you have a fantastic image to start off with. Gorgeous models to boot! congrats!

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[auroraskye]

Nice job, Grace!

[paul33]

Much better !

[jenirose3]

Great job Grace!

[tania622]

Is this edit any better?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/2743791963_a01bbd0ba8_b.jpg

[setcode]

My Edit
Low rez

[kja]

Grace - that's an awesome edit...makes the image really shine and look polished.

OP - very nice capture and thanks for posting coz I love to see what you started with and how to get to the end result as Grace posted!

[samsen]

Just to be different.