Hi There,

I'm new to the site and to photo retouching, but it's an area that I am becoming more and more interested in.
I have retouched this image (image is courtesy of Chanel Rene).

https://modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/16584516][img]http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/100226/08/4b87f7d5f048f_m.jpg

I could really do with someone who is more experienced than me having a look and telling me where I can improve so all criticisms/advice/opinions are welcome

Thanks in advance!

Her skin is still kinda blotchy, and that's especially noticeable from the contrasty processing you added.  Also, you need to be really careful about eyes- she now looks like she's not focusing on the lens, but rather something up and to her left.  If you're going to copy one eye and flip it, you need to manually switch the catch lights so they match the lighting.  It looks pasted on when lighting doesn't match a part of the image.

Instead, if you wanted to make that partially closed eye more open, I would have directly copied the iris from the other (so the catchlights say in place) and use liquify/warp/etc to reshape the original eyelid.

I believe you mean this image:


I like how you made the skin shiny but you missed the eyes...she looks more cross eyed now with unnatural shapes..looks kinda funny though

Thanks for the replies

Koray, how did you manage to embed the photo? Still trying to figure that out.

KPP-Thanks for the suggestions for how to get around the eye problem. How would you go about fixing the skintone? I don't really want to go down the road of bluring as I think that can sometimes look really fake.

Thanks again for your help.

Oooh lawd on those eyes!
Aside from that... I'm not crazy about the skin. But everyone has their own style I guess.

maybe you should just decrease the seize of the right and increase the size of the right eye a bit. it looks to me like you copied and flipped her right eye (the inner part ) which makes her look kinda weird.

as I'm looking at her, when you changed the catchlight on the left side, it made her eyes look crossed.  The eyes are like mirrors, so what you see in one eye, should be same in the other eye.