Retouching!

Well, it took a while, but I finally have my retouching pictures!

Here's the original picture for the first project.

Now here's my re-touched version.

I'd say this is one of my better retouches.  The skintone seems even for the most part, and everything I tried worked out.  If I re-did this project, I would make the skin slightly more tan and the lips more red.  The most difficult part of this piece was getting a handle for the patch tool.

Here's the unedited version of the second retouch I did.

And the retouched version:

I'd say this is my worst retouch.  I think it still looks alright- no real visible blemishes or anything like that.  However, the patch tool was being difficult, and it created skin that seems somewhat splotchy.  I'd definitely try to fix this if I re-did this project.  The most difficult part was trying to get the skin color to be smooth- and, as you can see, it failed.  Here, I learned how to combine the patch and clone stamp tools to get rid of the hair on her chin.


And finally, I edited myself.

Tough task, right?  Well, I tried the best I could.

I'm really proud of this one, mostly because I was actually able to improve my appearance.  Everything worked this time around, and I wouldn't want to fix anything.  The most difficult part was trying to edit the flyaway hair to make it look natural, and it still doesn't really.  It's better, though.  Here I didn't really learn anything new.

That's it!  Stop-motions coming up.