Beauty Portraits: Portrait Retouching - Zec@Work Style

[cantshoot4nuts]

Great of you to take your time to type out everything and share your knowledge.
Your model's lips kinda dry, ask her to take more fluids

 

[nemesis32]

Zec Bro... again, nice efforts! I think this is more appropriate if the digital darkroom section though.

 

[Zeckson Chow]

Thanks for sharing!

Kudos to Zeckson for taking the effort to share in detail :thumbsup:
Maybe should make this thread a sticky.

Thanks guys. Hope it is helpful to you.

 

[Zeckson Chow]

Great of you to take your time to type out everything and share your knowledge.
Your model's lips kinda dry, ask her to take more fluids

Yeah... I should have done something to her lips... My bad...

 

[Zeckson Chow]

Zec Bro... again, nice efforts! I think this is more appropriate if the digital darkroom section though.

Hmm... Maybe... Oops...

 

[Witness]

your first image rocks la!!!

 

[Zeckson Chow]

Witness bro, yup, that's my favorite of the lot! Love that image!

 

[Zantz]

its very helpful

 

[hlw8888]

Thks for sharing.

very helpful for newbies like me.

 

[mechattax]

Thanks for the great effort.

 

[Zeckson Chow]

its very helpful

Thks for sharing.

very helpful for newbies like me.

Thanks for the great effort.

Glad you guys like it. Hope this can help you in every way.

 

[Kameron]

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[ryan84]

thanks for sharing..

 

[labla]

Hey cool thanks for the tips and pointers nice for us newbies to learn oh btw, i feel that the close ups eyes are oversharpened. It loses the reality as well as the life in it.

 

[night86mare]

very nicely done guide, well written, concise, blah blah blah thumbs up for the spirit, i cannot agree with a lot of your life views, zeckson, but i think this is a respectable effort.

frankly speaking, i thought this should be cleaned up and thrown into articles & guide section as well.

on another note; i felt for the original example the contrast for eyes was overdone (it's a personal preference); for those who wish to limit the effect, do a layer duplicate, and then you can set the layer opacity on the edited layer to "fade" the effect if you so wish. beautiful pictures, anyhow. especially the first one.

 

[two200]

Thanks Zeckson, open my eyes of how to really use photo editor. Really appreciate it.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[melvin]

Thanks for the effort!:thumbsup:Very good effort:thumbsup: Didnt expect the step by step guide really makes me:bigeyes:

 

[Zeckson Chow]

thanks for sharing..

Thanks Zeckson, open my eyes of how to really use photo editor. Really appreciate it.

Thanks for the effort!Very good effort Didnt expect the step by step guide really makes me

Thanks guys. Hope this mini tutorial is really helpful to you.

 

[Zeckson Chow]

Hey cool thanks for the tips and pointers nice for us newbies to learn oh btw, i feel that the close ups eyes are oversharpened. It loses the reality as well as the life in it.

very nicely done guide, well written, concise, blah blah blah thumbs up for the spirit, i cannot agree with a lot of your life views, zeckson, but i think this is a respectable effort.

frankly speaking, i thought this should be cleaned up and thrown into articles & guide section as well.

on another note; i felt for the original example the contrast for eyes was overdone (it's a personal preference); for those who wish to limit the effect, do a layer duplicate, and then you can set the layer opacity on the edited layer to "fade" the effect if you so wish. beautiful pictures, anyhow. especially the first one.

Thanks for your comments, both Labla and Night86mare. Appreciate it.

 

[joehani]

The reason why I am releasing my methods to you is because I see the need to educate our members properly and to improve the general standards of photos posted here in ClubSNAP. I am also challenging myself by revelaing my trade secrets because when it becomes a common knowledge to all, it will force me to continuously strive and push myself to look for ways to improve myself on other areas because people are catching up!

I wish to stress again, POST PROCESSING IS THE LATER 50% PART OF THE COMPLETE PACKAGE. YOU STILL NEED TO GET YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY RIGHT FIRST!

Hope this mini tutorial helps.

Although, I do about half of what you wrote in this lesson plan but I never really knew how to pen it like how well you have penned it here.

But the best advise that I will not forget will be :
"POST PROCESSING IS THE LATER 50% PART OF THE COMPLETE PACKAGE. YOU STILL NEED TO GET YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY RIGHT FIRST!"

Indebtfully greatful, may I ever ask to shoot with you sometimes.