Giacomo Cirrincioni wrote:
Way too much smoothing and added noise-for-texture for my taste.  The skin and eyes do not look natural at all.  This is a clean beauty shot.  Beauty is essentially high-end product photography, and should be treated as such.  For example, you don't want to remove pores, you want near perfect pores - but they should still look like skin.  You don't want illustrative eyes, you wan't near perfect eyes. 

And then when you get there, you have to decide how much imperfection to allow back in to keep a sense of realism.  This is more feel than look.

Lastly, are you working on a calibrated system?  Your color's a pretty wonky, especially the skin tones, which are critical in beauty retouching.

Which photos are you referring to?
and shockingly enough lol I don't use the noise technique for any photos that I retouch and same for blurring.
the colors may be wonky because I had to decrease the quality and size of them for them to be uploaded, I'm trying to figure out how to upload and keep a great quality

Motordrive Photography wrote:
overall, I like what you have done, but would like to concentrate on this one

this is quite good in the retouching, but I am not keen on the color palette you have chosen,
that's just me though.

what I think you should add a few styles to show more versatility, like full body fashion,
pinup and rugged male looks.

I'm not very happy with the way it uploaded either, The way the colors look BEFORE I uploaded that were more natural but thank you so much for the tips! I'm definitely going to work on that and getting different styles of photos

Christian Bela wrote:


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OMG Thank you so much!