Marko Smiljanic

Boudoir- und Porträtretusche für Fotografen

Hey, thanks for sharing your results! First and foremost - good job on the skin work, and nicely executed dodge and burn! Retouching-wise from what I can see, you've done stellar work!Let's tackle the improvements:- I am not sure if you've been retouching in sRGB color profile or Adobe RGB, something about the skintone reminds me a bit of how an image looks like when wrong color profile is uploaded to the internet. Make sure you're saving your work in sRGB, and that your Lightroom/Camera Raw is also set too sRGB as the working color space - On the subject of color, this might be a personal preference, but I'd go for a bit more rose-y / pink-y in the skintones, rather than going for the yellow tones.- In addition to the topic of colors - after you've completed your skin work, you can use the Camera Raw as a filter from the Filter drop down menu, navigate to the Camera Calibration sliders, and tweak the Hue of the blue slider, by pulling it to the left, it might do the job and help you reach the desired in a second!- The sole of the foot in the air has turned out pale after the color correction, which you can expect with photos where colors are pushed to their limits. To fix this, a quick solution would be to create an empty/transparent layer, set its blending mode to color, using a color picker, sample the ''good'' skintone color surrounding the pale area, and once you do that, paint over the pale area. You can add a mask to it, or reduce the transparency to get it to where you want it. - The palm of the hand has also turned blue, due to the toning of the midtones/highlights into blues, you can use the same transparent/empty layer technique to bring back some natural skintones into that area! :) Most of what I'd improve has to do with color correction, cause from what I see here - your skin work is really nice! Feel free to hit me up on any of my social media, or through the group I've shared in the Discussions tab under the lesson, I would love to see the fullsize, and maybe give you some more tips when I am able to see the image zoomed in! :) Thanks a lot for taking the lesson and sharing your work! I love to see the work of my students!‍

Thank you for such an extensive review! I appreciate the feedback a lot. I did indeed work with the wrong colour profile, but I already fixed it for my future pictures. It was a great course!

It is always a bit of a trouble, and even after 10 years of working with editing programs, it still happens to me as well, especially if I am switching from Internet publishing to Print editing workflow :D Also this is something to have in mind: 1. When it comes to color spaces, make sure that your working and especially export color space ( if you're directly exporting from LR to PS using its internal option ) is also set to sRGB - cause this is also where this error can creep in. 2. Upon installing or updating to the newer version of Photoshop and Camera RAW included, the working color space often gets defaulted to Adobe RGB, so make sure to set it back to the sRGB. You can of course edit your images in any color profile you like , ProPhoto RGB or Adobe RGB, as they are wider, and might be more suitable for print, however if your work is mostly displayed on the internet - it's simpler for your workflow to be editing and seeing the same colors that everyone else would be seeing on the web! I am looking forward to more of your results! Thanks a lot Milinta and goodluck in your retouching adventures!

As a beginner in retouching I'm quite happy with my result. Would like to hear what could be improved.

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