Retoucher

Versiontwo Fine Art

Posts: 236

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Here is my friend Alex. I snapped a photo of him the other night and thaught it was good enough to retouch. I tried to do this quite fast to see how well I could retouch an image in under an hour to see if I can start doing a few retouches a day.

https://i41.tinypic.com/zvy1ef.jpg

What are your impressions guys?

Apr 27 10 04:28 am Link

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Eithne Ni Anluain

Posts: 1424

Dundalk, Louth, Ireland

I'm having a "which is the after" image conflusted moment!

I presume the right one is? I prefer the original as the colors in the right one are way off on my screen. To red saturated and odd colors....I cant get past the colors.....

Apr 27 10 06:17 am Link

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Natalia_Taffarel

Posts: 7665

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Retouching ain't about changing.

If you make my eyes green I'd sue you.
How's that for friendly?
x

Apr 27 10 07:07 am Link

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Ashish Arora

Posts: 2068

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Natalia_Taffarel wrote:
Retouching ain't about changing.

If you make my eyes green I'd sue you.
How's that for friendly?
x

Not their fault really, I see green even in the shadows, for instance, see the stubble or that headgear? I think you need to learn a lot. Masks are your guys. Use greens where needed, and yes eyes color changed- big no no.

Did you run a overall exposure layer and corrected the underexposure?

Also, the reds on the nose are hurting, tone them down, and some on the cheeks too? Again, selective masks.

What about the forehead bump?

Apr 27 10 07:24 am Link

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Michael Brittain

Posts: 2214

Wahiawa, Hawaii, US

You went to far, and you didn't really do it well. I know that big dent above the bridge of his nose was there in the before, but thats the one thing I would have probably worked on first.

Apr 28 10 02:42 am Link