I offer this image to see what a pro touch up artist is capable of. Image from Pixabay. I am working to expand my post production work and this would be very helpful. I hope nobody considers it below them or their time.
Thank you
Jim

Not sure how it helps you by having someone else retouch that photo & why is it so small?

Wouldn't it be a better idea to check out books, take classes or watch youtubes on retouching

Well I tried and my rating was pretty poor. So I just hoped some nice people might decide to show me what this particular image should look like, if say for instance, it was brought to them to work on. It's not my image. Just a generic shot from Pixabay. Tuts are fine but not the same as working on the same image you are. I am not a neophyte with Photoshop by any means and retouching is a skill I would like to improve on.
I mean that's kind of the point NorCal. You guys get pretty nice images to work on and I get people wanting something closer to this worked on and It seems I'm going to far with smoothing and... oh well. If anyone wants to fine if not that's great too.
Thanks
Jim

What??? It's not your picture and you're asking people to work on it???

It has no copyright restrictions whatsoever and i picked it up for practice. It's not like I'm going to track her down and sell it to her. If it WAS mine you would think I was trying to get something worked on for free. Sorry I bothered anybody.

I posted a huge-o-long post in your critique thread, but here's my take.

This was done quickly and the result can vary a lot. It really depends a huge amount on the answer of the question "Where I'm gonna use this photo?".

Why don't you post your own photos for all to work on? Nevertheless...here's my quick try...