Saturday, May 15, 2010

Retouching a Face

This is something that I really wanted to learn how to do, so I tried retouching on a few different pictures to get some much needed practice.

Here is the original for my first attempt.....



...and the finished version....



I tried to remove some of the deep shadowing on the face, I whitened the teeth, and darkened the background (mostly on the edges/corners to draw the focus towards the face of the main subject). Then I added a layer on top: overlayed white, reduced opacity to 4%. I am pretty happy with this one.

Here is the original for another attempt...



...and the final, in which I again removed some shadows from the face, added some highlights, and darkened the background. I am pretty satisfied with this one, and I like how the final portrait looks a little stylized.


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