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Hi, guys.

I abandoned that last retouching project for two reasons:

1) It was well hard
2) It was for my EX girlfriend!

That said, your advice was invaluable and was not in vain.

I have attempted another one:

stmoo.com/stuff/retouch/mick.htm

It was nowhere near as hard as the original one. Anyway - I know there is loads still to do but I would like your opinion on how I am doing. My main problem was the girl's hair.

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I should also add that using layers is MINT!

And I LOVE the polygonal lasso tool which I only just discovered!

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well done my friend, well done



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Originally posted by: Stmoo
I should also add that using layers is MINT!

Not bad at all, looks like you're getting the hang of it.
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Looks good. Here's what I often do on areas like the boy's hair that you trimmed, since it can leave an unnaturally smooth transition to the background: use the Smudge brush, set to maybe 40% and a small size of a few pixels, then smudge from the hair toward the background to create some new, semi-random hair.

nice job stmoo and nice little tip there too mc.

Cheers guys and, once again, thanks for the tip MC!

Great tip mclarkson...never knew that trick. Nice retouching job as well.