Beauty Retouch Again

Image Courtesy of Dallas J Logan

This image is another one submitted on the the Model Mayhem website for retouching.  The photographer in this case was Dallas J Logan, from Brooklyn in NYC.  Most of the retouching on the skin was achieved by painting with a small low opacity brush (4-7%) set to either black (burn) or white (dodge) on a 50% gray layer set to the soft light blending mode.  The clone stamp and healing brush were used sparingly on the the skin, apart from removing or reducing some of the major blemishes, but quite a bit on the hair.

Cheers

Colin

 

Model Mayhem Beauty Retouch

Model Mayhem (http://www.modelmayhem.com/) is a website community for models, photographers and photoshop “wizards” (their term not mine!) etc.  On one of the forums people submit sample images for retouching, I happened on the image below from photographer Carol Lee from Texas (Mayhem #1216562) on this thread http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=550304 .  The extent of the retouch is quite extreme, I spent a couple of hours on it – but it shows what can be done with less than perfect skin…

Cheers

Colin

Original Photo Carol Lee