Photo enhancement

[Builtdown]

Hi,

The girl is cute as she is, but I tried to achieva a more commercial look. Original photo is taken by Bloodflower and thanks to him for letting me use his photo.

http://www.spiral1.fi/Misc/katrin3.jpg


Photoshop 20 minutes.


- Built

[Skitzy]

Nice touch up, looking good.

[Phailure]

I think that instead of making her eyes darker, you should have kept the colour or have made her eyes piercing blue or baby blue. It would fit better for a Commercial look.

Just my two cents, man. Nice job none the less.

[Bloodflower]

hey nice work but definitly to much black around the eyes for my taste

[Builtdown]

Thanks guys!

I like brown eyes and strong makeup :)


- B

[Ash]

for 20 mins that is rather good :) nice one

How do you go about this...like what stages/things do you tackle first and what is the order of taking the image from A to B so to speak

[Funtastik]

A couple things bother me.
- There's like this small area around her mouth that is darker than the rest of her face.
- Her fair is far too blurry in some places.
- Lips a liiiittle too saturated.

Aside from that, you did a nice job of removing the marks on her skin and things like that, which is the main challenge. Good job.

[Builtdown]

Thanks,

Stages :
- removing imperfections (zits, wrinkles...)
- smoothing the skin
- altering eye color
- whitening the teeth
- removing red areas (cheeks, around the nose...)
- makeup
- color correction
- etc...


@Funtastik : Yes, there´s a darker area on the upper lip. But I don´t think it bothers me. And the blurriness of the hair was something I couldn´t do anything.

[Skitzy]

I would love to try do something like this but I'm terrible with the clone tool and I'm gathering thats a big part of this.

[V!N]

Cool touch up Builtdown. 3D stuff isn't the only talent you've got, that's cool to see!

@Skitzy: try the "healing brush" instead (for these types of retouching). It does practically the same but it keeps the texture much better.

[Bloodflower]

jup! just dont duoble tap to often cauze healing @ the same point twice means over sharpen @ that area!

[Skitzy]

Is healing on photoshp 7.0, seen as I've never used it before.

[Builtdown]

Healing tool was introduced in PS 7.0 if I remember correctly.

- B

[Skitzy]

Ahh, hate to be dumb but where abouts is it?

[Digital Angel]

Good so far.
I think you've removed too much of the red in her face and made her very yellow though.

[V!N]

Ahh, hate to be dumb but where abouts is it?

it's quite simple, see the attached file :)

[Skitzy]

Ah I think I have that, I shall check yes, but I never noticed it. Thanks monkey.

[Bloodflower]

good example of better know ur tools! hehehe sry :P

[tsu]

Well done, a little over done for my tastes. The eyes are too dark IMO.

[V!N]

she looks a bit like Buffy (you know, the vampire slayer)