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StephanieLM Retouching

Posts: 32

San Francisco, California, US

It was recently pointed out to me that my approach to skin in close up beauty images is less than ideal.  Close up beauty is not my forte, so I took that to heart and tried out some new things on a close up shot I had lying around.  What do you think of the skin?  Is it smooth enough?  Too smooth? 

https://www.stephanie-maulding.com/temp_photo/christina.jpg

Mar 28 14 05:10 pm Link

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CLICK retouch

Posts: 235

Denver, Colorado, US

It's fine, you're limited by a less than good initial lighting.
If you want to challenge yourself work with images that are lit in a way that pronounces texture.

Mar 29 14 06:21 am Link

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Natalia_Taffarel

Posts: 7665

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

CLICK retouch wrote:
It's fine, you're limited by a less than good initial lighting.
If you want to challenge yourself work with images that are lit in a way that pronounces texture.

+1

There's really not a lot to say.

You won't have great images unless you START with a great image

Apr 05 14 03:48 pm Link

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Matt Letharian

Posts: 140

Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland

Natalia_Taffarel wrote:

+1

There's really not a lot to say.

You won't have great images unless you START with a great image

^

Indeed.

Apr 06 14 01:28 pm Link

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