Tips On Beautifying This Ugly Girl?

[Bronson]

Alright, so I've taken it upon myself to start on this personal project of mine: making this girl I found off of Google images into someone that could be on the front cover of a modeling magazine. Or at least moderately pretty. I'll post the large transition she's been through since I've been working on her, so you'll get an idea on what I've improved (or not improved) on.

I showed the final outcome of the girl to my friends and they say that she is still hideous. Please help me make her attractive. Any ideas, suggestions, tips, lessons, or teachable moments would be GREATLY appreciated.

[Hoogle]

I would start off with getting a better quality image and not a webcam shot. and there is nothing wrong with the way she looks in the 1st image anyway.

[sprucemagoo1]

Just a few things I have picked up on:-
She's starting to look like a Disney Pixar character,
The colour around one pupil is bigger than the other,
The nose looks broke,
Lips are fat,
Looks like loads of the same pic, but with different backgrounds.
Do you not think you could have had the exact same outcome as you have now by just drawing on a blank canvas.


I would have concentrated on making the right cheek look less swollen, Making sure the face is all in proportion and with symmetry.
When Photoshop experts re-touch an image, they don't just draw over it and play with bending options over and over. You have to manipulate and enhance what is already in the image, otherwise you eventually loose the details that make a face look human. Focus your efforts on the task in hand, you can put a new background in when the face is done, this is just an unnecessary distraction. Being from the UK, I have glanced upon some real munters, but anyway, I might do you an example of what I mean after I've been to sleep as it is 5 in the morn here.

[Pooka]

Hideous?
Really?

The definition of hideous is "offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly "

You think this young lady is exceedingly ugly?
Really?
REALLY?

How ridiculous.

[sprucemagoo1]

She does look like she has had some sort of trauma to the face to make it swell like that, maybe a car crash. But purely as a photoshop exercise,
this is what I was trying to say as a start to getting the effect you were after.

Obviously, I would agree with everyone here that has said she is not bad to begin with, and that you could have started out with a much higher quality image, and why are you doing this anyway?

[Pooka]

Anyone can take a bad picture.

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[Bronson]

She does look like she has had some sort of trauma to the face to make it swell like that, maybe a car crash. But purely as a photoshop exercise,
this is what I was trying to say as a start to getting the effect you were after.

Obviously, I would agree with everyone here that has said she is not bad to begin with, and that you could have started out with a much higher quality image, and why are you doing this anyway?

Um, to be honest, I actually prefer my job on her to yours. Unless you just did a really quick demonstration of what you're talking about, she looks stranger than my final outcome.

Well, maybe she isn't hideous, but in my opinion she is not pretty. I just don't find her physically appealing. Anyway, I'll take your advice on using a higher resolution image next time. Why am I doing this anyway? It's a Photoshop project I made up so I can become better with the program. We've all seen those Youtube "Ugly to Beautiful" videos; I just wanted to replicate that in hopes of getting my "beautification skill" higher. You really do learn a lot about Photoshop when trying to do what I'm doing, like techniques using duplicate layers, contrast, shaping, fixing bad lighting, etc.

[Paulie1108]

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[Bronson]

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Before

Okay, I see. So you guys are saying I should make the bridge of the nose back to its original length. Yeah, I can definitely do that. Thanks!

On a similar note, and I think everyone should know this for future reference, the transformation I'm trying to make is not supposed to be subtle, just realistic. In other words, I want her to essentially go from the original to this:

[Paul]

Good luck mate, and be sure to show us your final version - as she asked for this or are you just doing it because you can?