Hello everybody!

I recently took a retouching course with a professional retoucher.
We worked on one of my images (the second, the one who is called "Alice1"). We didn't make Dodge and Burn, I shall make it later!



I tried to reproduce quickly the same retouch on two other images (the first one and the third), it stays some more of things to do but I find the result coherent ("to refine")
Regrettably I try to do the same thing on my favorite photo of this series, where Alice is against a chair. The result is too strange...
Can anybody tell me what is the problem? Maybe that my light did not go, but why? What changed with the light?

Pics after same quick retouching:



I show you raw:



And raw after Camera Raw (already weird for the fisrt, with the chair...)



What' is the problem with this pic?

Hi Emilie,

The color inconsistencies you see are less likely the result of light inconsistency but rather due to post-processing inconsistency. Generally: If the different shot were made using different camera bodies, lenses, filters that may influence the result too.

What you show as "raw" is not raw but the result of ACR's processing cached as a preview. Real raw data doesn't look like that. You can check what it looks like with tools like dcraw or libraw. So the first factor which influences color is ACR itself.

The over-complicated layer structure you show (including masks for local adjustments etc) is a sign that the whole process is essentially flawed, so you can expect all kinds of inconsistencies due to that. The more simply you approach an image, the more consistent your results will be. Ideally one should use a color target too.

As an added note about your:

Emilie Granowska wrote:
We didn't make Dodge and Burn, I shall make it later!

Local adjustments should be made before any global color correction and independently of it. Otherwise you would introduce additional inconsistencies.