Pixel Poetry wrote:

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I agree with you Andrea this is a practice forum if they don't like the retouch then too bad this is why you pay a professional if they want results done their way.

I worked on someones photo they loved my first retouch and asked  for high res and I sent it. I did another one for them from the same thread and they were very rude because I brighten the eyes a bit he started saying the focus of the image was lips and I ruined the imagery and that it was horrid. When he didn't even give any instructions at all on what was it that he wanted or that to only focus on the lips plus it was in the practice forum we are practicing if we were high end retouchers we wouldn't be working on these images. I no longer use practice images from here either because some people just want free high end work done.