Crap to UnCrap Options

[phoenixpyre]

Mmmmk, I was making a layout for a dear friend, and I found this hideous picture of a woman on www.fotocommunity.com, but I fell in love with her eyes, and decided I HAD to use it in the layout.

I most certainly was NOT going to use it the way it was, so I decided to fix 'er up a tad...

Right wehn I was showing her what I had done so far, Photoshop decided to take a vacation and terminated, before I had saved... ANYTHING.... so yeah, I am showing you

ALL THAT I GOT DONE

*tear*
(original on the right bigger version here)

tis le thumbbed

[Gigi]

I kinda like the original better than the retouched one.

I often smooth out pictures and touch them up in Photoshop to prep it for vexelling. Over-smoothing and reliance on Gaussian blurs only make the skin look fake, and the image will lose its detail.

Try taking your original image, putting the newly retouched one over it as a new layer, and setting the new layer to 60% or even 50% opacity. You'll retain some of the details while still smoothing the picture out. And yes, I do realize your Photoshop messed up on you. :)