High End Retouching Exercise
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Original image in RAW format taken by photographer Sergey Moshkov.
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Here I was practicing high end retouching with some well known Photoshop techniques like Spot Healing, Frequency Separation, Dodge / Burn, Color Correction, Grading & Balance and High Pass Filter. Pretty straight forward job. I just wanted her skin to remain looking normal and not plastic which happens when abusing those techniques or tricks.
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Starting with the original image. I first made some general adjustments from the RAW file an then cropped the image.
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Spot healing brush and frequency separation applied on the skin. Added some extra lashes on her right eye.
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The some dodge / burn to work with shadows and highlights. And also to make her eyes pop a little more.
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Final color grading and color balance to warm up the image and bring back skin tone.
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HERE IS THE FINAL RESULT.