A Re-Edit

I finally had the time to go through those old images to try to retouch a little better. I spent A LOT of hours were spent trying to get the frequency separation right, which I wanted to try before dodging and burning, so the only thing that got done for these images are some jaw reshaping using the liquefy tool and the burn tool- take in the jaw, let out the jaw, shade it in; fixed up some skin texture; gave her a little more lips (because I knew she'd love it).

Straight out of camera, photo by Red Generation photography

As for what it still needs, now that i'm happy with the jawline itself, I need to go through and have more of a gradient shadow on the neck.... besides all of the dodging and burning that I'll do next while I still try to figure out frequency separation.

my burn, liquefy, skin retouch, and crop edit.

So this still needs contoured on the cheeks [also to remove the shadows], nose, and eyes; I'll shade in a little more eyebrow too. Then it needs whatever else I decide to do to the light and colors, adding a LUT or a gradient underneath etc.

side by side, before and after, of my retouches

I just need the motivation to finish it!

RL