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Before and after retouch exercise

Photographer: Felix Britanski.
Retouch: Gerard Fay
Tried to keep this natural
Constructive criticism welcome please

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I like the color correction you did to her but not the background. The shadow is really cool on the original.

Thank you for your comments Sean. Very much appreciated. I went for a more subtle approach to the shadow as I found the original shadow distracting from the dress. I didn't have an art director so it was just my personal choice. Thank you again sir.

I really like your work here, and i'm actually loving what you did with the shadow. Did you mask it out?

Thank you Nicolas. Yes, I masked the figure out then manually airbrushed the shadow.

You could have cut it out and applied a blur.

I cut it out and airbrushed to practice using the brush tool and hand/eye co-ordination. Furthermore, I didn't like the shape of the shadow at all so it was personal choice and I have more control.

Can you 'just' purely blur and show me exactly what you mean, and without using a mask and brush tool to achieve the same result that I wanted please. Seems like a lazy way to go about it and less skillful IMHO. Blurring a shape that you do not want is rather pointless. The airbrush is a fine tool and more accurate than using the blur slider, surely? I am here to learn. I would like to see your work and learn more. Thank you in anticipation.

Put the fly away back...

Thank you Javier. I used to retouch well before Photoshop become a household tool. So learning again with a new tool is interesting

awesome work! I'm just starting on retouching my photos.
Love the natural look and the soften on the shadow!