Hello this is my first attemped at re touching. i want to get better but im teaching myself

any help you can give me will be much apreaciated

I also took the picture myself

Difficult to offer assistance without seeing what you have done. Is it possible we could seethe original

To be honest the skin on the face looks over shopped and plastic in a typical glam pic style and I am hoping that is something you have done in photoshop rather than having a baby that already fits the mould for glam work

Teddy looks good though 

Rob M Remember: - If it ain't fun, it ain't worth doing

Hi Kitty,

if you want real feed back, on this image, i would msg Margret to have a look at it, unless she spots the thread first. shes got all the skills on touch up work.

id like to comment, but with out having a before image i dont know what youve done. however in my opinion (and everyone has one) i would of touched an image of myself to post on here for the feed back

Keiran

Hi,

I think you have made the bear look just like a baby, so very impressed . Sorry poor joke, it's just that usually you split the image with a before/after shot.

Talking of which without a before after shot it is hard to see how much you have improved it though at a guess you touched up the eyes. The most common mistake is to get carried away and make it really obvious because you want people to know you did something. I'd say this happened on the eyes, they look a little intensely blue.

I do a similar before/after style in my portfolio if you want to look, though I worked on the facial tan shot on my laptop and annoyingly its screen was overly bright and when viewing on my usual computer I can see it looks over done. Such is the pain of different monitors to deal with.

M x

DragonLady , Digital Retoucher  posted on 24/03/2009 16:16:49   Posted 934 times

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Member Since: 07/11/2008

Quoting post from Margaret

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Hi,

I think you have made the bear look just like a baby, so very impressed . Sorry poor joke, it's just that usually you split the image with a before/after shot.

Talking of which without a before after shot it is hard to see how much you have improved it though at a guess you touched up the eyes. The most common mistake is to get carried away and make it really obvious because you want people to know you did something. I'd say this happened on the eyes, they look a little intensely blue.

I do a similar before/after style in my portfolio if you want to look, though I worked on the facial tan shot on my laptop and annoyingly its screen was overly bright and when viewing on my usual computer I can see it looks over done. Such is the pain of different monitors to deal with.

M x

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That is one of the reasons we calibrate monitors, I do my laptop and my edit PC every two weeks.

If correct colours are critical then it is a good investment

Rob M


Remember: - If it ain't fun, it ain't worth doing

this is the original and yes i did get abit carried away- well alot

Amazing bit of retouching, how you managed to get that bear to look like a baby I'll never know?

oops jus noticed Margret beat me to that joke.. Well at least I wasn't on my own...

I'm no expert but I think on your profile pic the contrast looks a little too high, also your eye's can't be that naturally blue. I think you have done a good job for a first try, but I think its best to keep it a little more natural.

Hi, your prom picture in the glass looks fantastic, i would love to try this could you let me know how you did it or if anyone knows of a video on y*otube i would be really greatfull, i cant comment on your as im new to retouching also.

Merry christmas