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Retouch, Hilary Duff
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post May 2 2008, 04:07 AM
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AFTER!!


BEFORE!!


What do you guys think?! any tips?!
 
 
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post May 2 2008, 04:11 PM
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It's blur tool-tastic!
hahahaha
I like it actually, very well done.

Though she does look, a bit to orange o_o
 
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post May 2 2008, 05:15 PM
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i like it, but shes always going to be ugly, after Lizzie Maguire she just got ugly.
 
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post May 2 2008, 05:28 PM
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she looks like a drag queen.
that was my first thought.
sorry if i offended you but i'm being honest here! lol

yeah, you can so tell you went overboard with the blur tool lol
 
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post May 6 2008, 05:22 PM
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I love how you retouched her eyes!
 
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post May 6 2008, 09:08 PM
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Woah. She looks like an alien in the after one (no offense). Maybe it's the eyebrow arching? I dont know. XD.gif
 
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post May 6 2008, 09:28 PM
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Looks like parts of her face were burned.

Also, kinda too shiny in some spots.

And.. you did something with her mouth. It doesn't look very natural o_o.

Otherwise uhm, good effort.

 
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post May 7 2008, 09:47 AM
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hmm ok, thanks for the comments guys.. thumbsup.gif
 
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post May 7 2008, 11:56 PM
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It looks nice. But maybe taking a look at this tutorial will help : http://www.createblog.com/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=299
 
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post May 8 2008, 12:02 AM
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^ loool.gif
 
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post May 8 2008, 12:06 AM
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elba rick rolled us :| dang, haah but i like watching the video. song is catchy.

i personally think you did a good job with the retouching of the skin. it varies from people to people. but i will agree with the mouth, it should've been left alone but i love what you did with her eyes and make-up.
 
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post May 8 2008, 10:48 AM
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Woow! It's beautiful!
You're good! ^^
Do you have an tutorial or something about this? I would like to read it =]
 
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post May 9 2008, 08:42 AM
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well. i happen to love it =]


it should be a tutorial =]
wish there was one for PSP
 
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post May 15 2008, 06:15 PM
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I agree that the mouth looks weird, since you shortened the teeth. It also looks really plastic-y around the edges of her mouth.

The eye enhancement is wonderful, though. Her eyeshadow looks better and her eyelashes are so thick and pretty.

I say 9 out of 10.
 
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post May 15 2008, 07:29 PM
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wow, this came out really nice. good job. her mouth looks weird though.

i thought she looked sooo skinny when she lost all that baby fat and stuff after lizzie mcguire. and then her teeth looked like chiclets, what the hell? blink.gif but my parents thought she looked better with some fat on her.
 
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post May 16 2008, 04:35 AM
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The eyes are what stand out to me the most, and it's definitely the best part of the picture. :3 I think the eyelashes might be a bit dark though. But I would definitely say the after looks better than the before, so good job. _smile.gif
 
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post May 16 2008, 04:37 PM
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It looks indeed orange, that's why the picture looks unreal, it doesn't make here look better ;)
 
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post May 16 2008, 05:24 PM
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QUOTE(Elba @ May 7 2008, 11:56 PM) *
It looks nice. But maybe taking a look at this tutorial will help : http://www.createblog.com/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=299

This is why you roll your mouse over before clicking links. XD

This isn't bad, it's just really... bronze. I'd like to see you work on a photograph with more imperfections in the original.

 
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post May 17 2008, 02:41 AM
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QUOTE(Elba @ May 7 2008, 11:56 PM) *
It looks nice. But maybe taking a look at this tutorial will help : http://www.createblog.com/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=299



loool.gif

edit//
shiny is a no-no... :O but the after certainly looks way better than the before.
 
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post May 20 2008, 12:39 PM
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Thanks for the feedback!! _smile.gif
 
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post May 22 2008, 05:16 PM
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QUOTE(absinthe @ May 6 2008, 09:08 PM) *
Woah. She looks like an alien in the after one (no offense). Maybe it's the eyebrow arching? I dont know. XD.gif

I have the same opinion. Looking at her picture made me sick.
 
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post May 25 2008, 12:12 AM
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While most pictures in mags are retouched, she has blemishes and bleeding eye makeup/undereye circles so if it was retouched, it wasn't done very well.

Blurring the skin (which some pro retouchers actually still do) is okay sometimes but you need to incorporate the original skin texture so it doesn't look blurry.

It looks like you duped a layer and set it on overlay or increased the saturation. It looks very unnatural. Too orange/bronzy.

It also looks like she had a bad brow lift. You gave her brows an arch which is great but you didn't eliminate the extra space between her eye and brow so it's too large and thus looks artifical.

I thought her eyes looked fine in the original. I also wouldn't have touched her teeth. Yeah, she's got a toothy smile and her teeth are large but her mouth looks misshapen in the after shot.

It was good to get rid of her minor blemishes though. You should try D&B. Takes more time but the results are fantastic. It's one of the methods high-end retouchers use to correct skin.
 

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