Make me beautiful

[prince]

It indeed looks great.. nice pp work.. IMO it appears a little, very little overdone with smoothness.. but oh well.. its glamor

I might have paid a closer attention to her left arm which appears a bit out of shape. The hair doesn't look distracting IMO but adds little sexiness.. colors look awesome.... nice work..

[BLACK PRINCESS]

I really love the pic. What software did you use? I wish my pics can come out like that when i edit them.

[TomTomTuning]

Originally Posted by prince

It indeed looks great.. nice pp work.. IMO it appears a little, very little overdone with smoothness.. but oh well.. its glamor

I might have paid a closer attention to her left arm which appears a bit out of shape. The hair doesn't look distracting IMO but adds little sexiness.. colors look awesome.... nice work..

Thanks.. Understandable

Originally Posted by BLACK PRINCESS

I really love the pic. What software did you use? I wish my pics can come out like that when i edit them.

Photoshop CS3

[Lisawebb]

I love the before and after, you made her so radiant, I'm sure she was so happy and thats whats most important!
Can you explain how you smoothed the skin and did the all over glow on the image? I am loving her flawless skin.

[TomTomTuning]

For the skin smoothing, i used an action from http://gettotallyrad.com/

The glow if i remember was from a Action i got from a Lighting-Essentials DVD i got.

[edmDusty]

In my statistics class in college I had to work out these huge formulas by hand. The work was very tedious and could be done in seconds with Excel. I asked the teacher why we just did use Excel and she explained that it is important to learn how and why everything is done and you can only do that by working it out by hand.

I would advocate the same thing for post process. Do a lot of pictures buy hand experiment and mess around. Find what suits your taste. Actions are great for when your trying to be cost effective and make some moolah, but not so good for when you're trying to perfect you style and make some pictures that reflect you--not the person who made the action.

[pedromorgan]

its a really nice picture.

as with the others who responded i found the doorway a bit destracting.

i love the smoothing of the skin. i think its slightly overdone but i love that.

i do however think you have overdone the whitening of the eyes a tad. i love the effect and it needed doing but not quite so much.

Peter

[TomTomTuning]

Thanks!