Forums >
Digital Art and Retouching >
DAR Critiques >
Please tell me how I can improve this picture.
Also, did I do well in my editing? What would you do differently? What would you change? What should I re-edit? I tried to keep it as natural as possible. Jan 14 10 10:53 am Link Can you show the before also? It would help in determining what you did. Jan 14 10 12:26 pm Link My Playground wrote: I double checked off the original I have, and yet to start at some stage, but I cant get past the top of her head. :-( the hair....it just, to me it distracts from the whole image....yeah ok so you need to look at masking hair and how to use what ya have (I'm no expert and still learning and all i've done this week is hair retouches to get practice) Theres several threads on it here already. Take sections, mask back in using smart objects so you dont lose any details in sizing the "pieces". Your basically wig making only digitally. Jan 14 10 12:39 pm Link I have the same pic in my port check it for some ideas if you like it Jan 14 10 02:33 pm Link I'm pretty sure I mucked it up too much. But I really like your clean retouch. The white background seems so white to me, but I'm not sure what can be done. Jan 14 10 02:44 pm Link I also found the top of the head a bit distracting. It appears to have been masked too cleanly. One easy fix for that: On a blank layer, use the clone* tool to pull a few flyaway hairs out of the hard edge. With her hairstyle, flyaways are fine. Here's an illustration, but you might choose to make it more or less "messy." *CORRECTION: use the smudge tool animated gif ... Here's a link to a small set of smudge brushes. I used the hair brush in this case ... sized very small, 90% or more strength, normal mode. Jan 15 10 02:38 pm Link Peano wrote: Thank you. This helped alot Jan 15 10 07:14 pm Link the only thing i have any issue with is that it still needs to be "cleaned up" under the left eye and the contour on the right side of the nose Jan 15 10 07:20 pm Link Peano wrote: This. Feb 15 10 02:29 pm Link |