Newbie Portrait - Before and After

I think that it was shot incorrectly to start with. It looks as if you used a WA to do a head shot. The PP for me is way too strong. She looks too plastic.

I'm aware that the photo was shot incorrectly to start with - as I said right from the beginning, it was just a crappy snapshot of a friend on my trampoline. That's not what this was about. The whole point was to see how good a crappy photo could become with some photomanipulation and how 'perfect' my friend could look with some airbrushing, regardless of how fake she looked after it all. You'd have been aware of me saying all of this earlier if you'd have read the thread...

rawr.

I don't think it looks much "better". Sure you did a LOT to the image...but it still looks weird/fake.

my first thought was "zombie". but w/e

Too much photo editing IMHO. Back down the saturation and contrast and her lips now look computer generated. You brightened up her teeth but didn't do anything to brighten her eyes. Her eyes look very dark in comparison.

The original was rather under exposed and your edited version is still a little darker than it should be.

Very nice shot and PP, but 1 hr 30 min is way too long to work on an image!

This is some dedicated photo editing. I really like it. Thanks for sharing. It's an hour and a half well spent!