A few retouches

[Jessicayla]

I've been practicing retouching, trying to have a better eye for lighting and color with portraits mainly, using DeviantArt stocks as bases.

Here are some of the ones I have done lately.








I mainly used color balance and level adjustments on these.

 

[cringer8]

Those look good Have you tried playing with Curves instead of levels?

On the last image, I think it would help if her hand matched the rest of her skin tone

 

[Tom Mann]

Very nice, Jessicayla! You've come a long way in a short time.

Tom

 

[Jessicayla]

Those look good Have you tried playing with Curves instead of levels?

On the last image, I think it would help if her hand matched the rest of her skin tone

I have dabbled with curves, haven't quite mastered them yet though. I see what you mean about the hand!

Very nice, Jessicayla! You've come a long way in a short time.

Tom

Thanks, Tom. That means quite a lot coming from you!

 

[blogfreakz]

nice work, did you try selective color?

 

[Dom]

Some nice subtle changes there, good job.

 

[Tom Mann]

Blogfreakz suggestion to try the "selective color" tool is excellent. Although one can reduce overly red skin (such as in your last example) by many methods, the selective color tool is often the simplest / quickest way and provides very nice looking results, much like you accomplished.

T

 

[hershy314]

Good job, the first one the hair in the retouch looks freakin awesome. Keep it up