first attempt at retouching

[towersinthesky]

Well, figured I would give this ago. I have edited in the past but it has always only envolved a bit of using the clone tool and that kinda thing.

This took me about an hour and a half and I have to admit I did rush it a little as the image is not mine. If it had been mine I would of happily spent aslong as it needed to do a proper job of it.

So that you are all aware the photo was taken by Christopher Murr, and was uploaded by him as a raw image so that it could be used as a stock photo for people to retouch.

ORIGINAL:


EDIT:


There is alot of stuff I should of done and would of done if it was a photo I had taken or that I was going to print and use as a final to be framed etc.

[towersinthesky]

for the record. I have done NO blurring what so ever.

[inchman254]

Nice shot and beautiful model.

For my 2cents worth. I find the chest a bit bright in the edit. I like the tone of the original a bit better.

The wrinkle on her left lower neck is the only imperfection on her skin. Might be worthwhile to try to get rid of that.

[silvrr]

Spend some time at 400 or 800x and clone out the imperfections and then perform the same workflow and see what you get.

[towersinthesky]

I was at about 300% of the image when editing the face.

The main part of the image I was trying to edit was primarily the face.

After the face was done and I had done most of the image I kinda just left it at that. Like I mentioned, if it had been my image I would of deffinetely gone all the way and spent an extra hour or two doing everything. It is hard to see on my edit as I did change the exposure slightly after I finished. I will upload 100% crops of both of the images around her face and not change any colours to keep it hte same as original.

[towersinthesky]

original at 100%



mine at 100%

[inchman254]

Very nice job in retouching the face. It wasn't obvious to me in your first post that there were so many blemishes that you were clearing.

[checkgio]

The results you got are pretty good. I used to take as long as you to retouch images until I saw a posting on this forum about Imagenomics Portraiture plug-in for Photoshop. It's amazing. In 1 click, this plugin will get better results than what you just got in 1 1/2 hours. I didn't believe it till I DL the free trial. It's pretty expensive for a plugin, but if you have many images to manipulate, it's definitely worth it.

[Phil.hearing]

good work can see now why it took so long