Ok, well first off, I took this photo, and I tried to make it look professional and stuff. I think the full size looks a whole lot better than the thumb, but I feel it's not really finished, so I'm looking for some critique and ideas. I think it turned out pretty good, but it just seems to be needing something, not sure if it's text or whatever. Thanks in advance- luke

Before:


After:

You should post a before pic so we know what you actually did

Ok, one sec

hm, try this tut on it.
http://www.createblog.com/photoshop-tutori...ored-pictures./
or
http://www.createblog.com/photoshop-tutori...dynamic-photo./

Well I see how, if this is your first edit it may be a big deal, but i mean there arent that many changes so not so much to critique. Looks, like you may have adjusted the curves, contrast, brightness, it looks like you bumped up the brightness to high, got rid of zits and what not... there wasnt much to work with in the first place, so sure it's better. it looks like the background is just like 3 different colors which is weird. I would find a texture on deviant art and make it your background. I mean, this must have taken, what...10 minutes? So usually there isnt much to critique on quick jobs like this. But I mean, compared to the b4 it is better so good job.

O and you took the color out of your eyes, so try putting it back! Select your eyes, feather it, then go to color balance and put it where you want.

Thanks, i was trying to figure out why the color went away! I'll do all of that, thanks, that's kinda what i wanted!

How do you go about putting a texture as the background with all mah hair?

I kinda prefer the before picture. If you just smoothed out your skin, did a bit of brightness/contrast, levels & curves, it would probably look nicer ._.

Just select your head, then invert the selection it, thn feather it by about 50, and then find a wallpaper texture, put it in the background, and use a feathered brush and use dodge and burn on it, so it doesnt like so, clean.

Well, the after picture would have looked good if you had a whole body picture instead of your head just staring at us. [ Sorry, I don't know why, but it's freaking me out.. I'm not a big fan of "closeup pictures"! ]

However, I do like the coloring of the after image. You gave the viewers a nice edit of a warm coloring.


If I were you, I would have messed with the before image and brighten things up. Increasing the contrast, brightness, and using selective coloring to further enhance the coloring saturation would have made the picture seem "alright" in my opinion.

It would have helped if you rotated the original because my neck is hurting from moving it around. I think the skin retouching looks good. And the coloring looks nice but do what Joseph suggested and bring back the color in your eyes. Also your photo is really grainy. Reduce it. If you have Photoshop, go Filter>Noise>Reduce Noise and mess around with the settings.

i totally agree, esp. with the rotate the orginal part.

Ok guys, sorry bout the rotation, i rotated it now, so that's good. I'll work on the grainyness now. I did the color to the eyes thing, and i must have done it too much, because it looks really creepy. I'll post it once i finish the grainyness thing

Ok, i tried to ungrain it, it didn't work too well, but here's what i have:

The graininess looks a bit better. And you eyes look too photoshopped, imo. The color doesn't look natural.

Lower the opacity of the layer with the eyes on it.

Ok, how's this:

better. ^_^

Better but lower it a bit more :]
It still looks like it doesn't blend in

And what bout now?

Ya, when I do eyes, I do it as intense as possible without it looking unrealistic. Those eyes look unrealistic but they still look cool. Just that color of eyes, doesnt exist. haha

Ok, so can someone help me find a good texture and a tut of how to apply it or something?

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^^ i'm confused at what you did?

eye+chin

lol. view them in two different tabs and keep switching back and forth.

it's very easy to see if you do that :P