Photo Retouching Skin
June 6, 2006 | Category: Inspiration, Media, Web
I saw this tut
This will be our first tutorial on the subject of re-touching a photograph in photoshop. We will be working on a photo of a model and using a few techniques to smooth and even out the skin.
http://tutorialblog.org/photo-retouching-skin/
I thought oh kewl, as its a subject I’m quite fond of. I had a look at the methods in the tutorial and it felt a little odd as I’ve been taught a different way. So I decided to have a very quick go with the source image and compare my final result with the one done by the author.
Original image

Image after carrying out the tutorial by the tut author

Heres my quick attempt

The speed I carried out in, I probably haven’t got the color correct. I think she looks more like a cover model now though : )
I know the tut wasn’t for creating cover models.
I had a go as well. I definitly should practice more to get the results of the retoutching masters, but it’s so fun to do.
And gives you a power feeling lol.
Makes you wonder when one will create photoshop for real life now…specialy in summer when mosquitos deface you and cream care is sooo slow ^^
keep it up, Yas & have fun ^^
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looking back at this it looks like someone has put a potato peeler to her face and taken away the top layer of her skin.
Think I will have another go.
[...] a Photoshop tutorial to smooth out skin on a photo image, you can check out the previous post http://www.yink.net/2006/06/06/photo-retouching-skin/ My last attempt was pretty awful, poor girl looks like she has sunburn. So I had to have another [...]