Senior portrait

[tott7000]

I have been playing around with my Photshop and I find myself strangely addicted.
Here is before:



and here is after:



I watched a video on youtube on how to remove braces, this was the most time intensive and probably took 30 to 40 minutes, then I used the patch tool on the wrinkles, smoothed skin with gaussian blur (I alway overdo this step I think), did a high pass, flattened, dodged the eyes and added catch lights, fixed a couple of background issues with cloning, and then finally duplicated the layer put in screen mode at 75/50 and then overlay at 50/50. Took me about 2 hours, but it was fun.

[zona5101]

I can see you did a lot of work! I think you chose good areas for enhancement but I think you over cooked it...in particular the catchlights and the skin. Your removal of the braces is well done. Nice work really - one of those time where perhaps "less is more".

[TNH]

Amazing work...

[klabshire]

I like it looks great. Congrats on removing the braces. But I think you may have over done the features on her face, she's looks more like a doll than an actual person. Also her hair looks a little too over done as well, maybe not so light...it kind of takes away from the actual light and "natural" look over her hair.

[lillygirl]

How do you add catchlights???????