Genevi skin retouch(boudoir)

[klam]

Another retouch.

An image I snapped over the weekend and retouched.

These are the main things that help the image out big time
-Color and exposure adjustments in RAW
-Skin heal and cloning
-dodge and burn pixel level and contouring.

Followed by sharpen(local and global), desaturated, curves contrast, added noise(grain) to give a photograph feel and to help smooth out any color banding.

Rollover before/after http://klam101.deviantart.com/#/d362pgl

View larger at my flickr to see more detail.


Genevieve Retouched by kiu101, on Flickr

[oldwolf]

great job on the retouch.

[edbayani]

very nice edit, and it helped a lot that your model had great skin, just a few flaws on her forehead.

[zona5101]

very very nice job

[klam]

edbayani - Yea, nice skin does helps. Made my job easier since her skin wasn't bad.

Thanks for compliments all.

[dbevisjr]

Wow! You did a great job with this image. I checked you flickr so I could see where you were starting. I need to learn this.

[klam]

Originally Posted by dbevisjr

Wow! You did a great job with this image. I checked you flickr so I could see where you were starting. I need to learn this.

Thank you. Do you mean when I started to retouch? If so, I just made public again an old retouch portrait I did when I first started. You can see how I use to fix skin and i'm still learning.

[dbevisjr]

Originally Posted by klam

Thank you. Do you mean when I started to retouch? If so, I just made public again an old retouch portrait I did when I first started. You can see how I use to fix skin and i'm still learning.

Sorry. I meant I looked at your flickr to see what the image looked like before you retouched it. You do a great job on these.

[superchud1]

Beautiful work.

[sk66]

Nice job. Nice image.
Would it be wrong to say; IMO the majority of the improvement comes from fixing exposure and WB? That could have been "right" from the get-go....