Phil Fernandez
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I am still struggling in doing beauty retouching. Would like to get feedbacks from veterans here.
thank you
thank you
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I am still struggling in doing beauty retouching. Would like to get feedbacks from veterans here.
thank you
Phil,
Retouching is such an important topic. It's used in many different circumstances with a wide arrange of needs and purposes. So, to me, at least, it's important to know the end use of the picture and then see the before and after. I'm not sure how to use the vBulletin syntax to get a mouse over switch, to be able to see, "before & "after" version.
But you can post smaller sizes, side by side.
Asher
no hurries.Phil,
Good job, now tell what the end result is this for? Is this for a head shot, a magazine, your portfolio and is there a time limit for delivery?
I'll try to give attention tomorrow. Meanwhile the impression is highly agreeable, but I did find that the original had a nice dramatic shadow beneath her gloved left hand and that now is lost. I am puzzled as to the oblique fine line beneath her lower lids. Is it drawn in by the eye MUA or what?
Not knowing how the picture is to be used and the demands of that makes it difficult to go further. The idea, to me at least, is to proceed towards the photographer's goal. So that must be specified. Imagine, how could Annie Leibovitz get her retouchers to complete her own unique vision?
Asher
I am still struggling in doing beauty retouching. Would like to get feedbacks from veterans here.
thank you
Jerome already pointed out that the finger nails need attention. The shape of all should be like the pinkie on the right
The rouge of the left and right cheeks do not match. The left is too close to the nose and mouth. Also the cheek bones are as important as the lips and could be emphasized.
Look for continuity of skin texture. The cheek skin is now pretty much devoid yet above the eyes sharpening has enhanced it.
Not quite. The root of that nail has a dent.
This is going to be difficult, because the reason why the rouge is uneven and the chin smooth is the light.
That's a separate matter and always an option. Part of the issue with a lot of smoothing is that we lose the cues for the dimensionality of the cheekbones. That's where artistic shading helps.If you are going to that level of edit, you might as well correct her jaw bones, which look uneven and relatively broad (due to perspective).
I am still struggling in doing beauty retouching. Would like to get feedbacks from veterans here.
thank you
I usually play a game on retouching that is also a sort of memory game I look at the picture in one minute and try to find out all the issues.
The issues are minor IMHO
My point of view on this:
Quickly and in addition of the nails, teeth and dry lips...
I'd correct:
Match a bit better the nail colour and the lipstick colour. Usually I don't see that much difference in the portraits I'm retouching to find it odd now.
As if it's for the model, I wouldn't eliminate all the moles, at least the one near the eye.
The lower lip need a bit of plumping (with dodge and burn)
I'd correct the highlight on the cheek, in order to match the texture with the rest of the face. There is a small issue here on the sharpness of the pores on the right hand cheek (i'm not sure how do you all see this one, you photographers), to me the left pores must be sharper than the right ones.
I'm Ok with the shadow being here.
The whites of the eyes are too yellow to me (at least at the corner) and I'd retouch, a bit, the veins.
I'd soften the knuckles a tad.
I'd straighten -a bit - the hair and even the lighting on these with D&B.
I'd add some eyelash at the bottom, particularly, on the left.
There a bit of redness/shadow on the cheek near the nose (left side)
Just last one thing, as you "soften" the skin, I think you forgot the inside of the nose, and it make me thing she got hair from her nose, like grand dad.
That doesn't mean that I'd be able to do all that efficiently. These are just things that comes to my mind...
in overall you did a very good job.
thank you Sandrine.... really appreciate.I usually play a game on retouching that is also a sort of memory game I look at the picture in one minute and try to find out all the issues.
The issues are minor IMHO
My point of view on this:
Quickly and in addition of the nails, teeth and dry lips...
I'd correct:
Match a bit better the nail colour and the lipstick colour. Usually I don't see that much difference in the portraits I'm retouching to find it odd now.
As if it's for the model, I wouldn't eliminate all the moles, at least the one near the eye.
The lower lip need a bit of plumping (with dodge and burn)
I'd correct the highlight on the cheek, in order to match the texture with the rest of the face. There is a small issue here on the sharpness of the pores on the right hand cheek (i'm not sure how do you all see this one, you photographers), to me the left pores must be sharper than the right ones.
I'm Ok with the shadow being here.
The whites of the eyes are too yellow to me (at least at the corner) and I'd retouch, a bit, the veins.
I'd soften the knuckles a tad.
I'd straighten -a bit - the hair and even the lighting on these with D&B.
I'd add some eyelash at the bottom, particularly, on the left.
There a bit of redness/shadow on the cheek near the nose (left side)
Just last one thing, as you "soften" the skin, I think you forgot the inside of the nose, and it make me thing she got hair from her nose, like grand dad.
That doesn't mean that I'd be able to do all that efficiently. These are just things that comes to my mind...
in overall you did a very good job.
Asher:
I like very much the tone you added on the image, the evening of lighting, also the lips are quite well softened. The only thing is that, to me, you lost most of the texture, and it can be OK in the sense of making it "soft focus", I think it looks too much "perfect" now, a bit hairspayed... How did you proceed?
I was "suspecting" portrait professional.
As for the stain, viewing it closely, I think it's more a JPEG artefact, not sure.
I agree for the fact that these things might be perfect at first, but, how would we live, then
It's just that I personnaly don't like starch ironed hair and clothes, I prefer it natural.
Sometimes in the shots I'm retouching it's more wild than natural tough.
courtesy Mayfield Curtis
It's JUST a test on reshaping the hair, nothing finished. It's tedious I tell you...