I like to practice my photoshop skills once in awhile, but I've recently been working on a website for my portfolio (as far as photography goes). This has led me to consider offering my photo retouching services on the website, since there's nothing like that here in Alaska. So, to practice I went. I realize that these will probably be totally excessive - it's not that I'm really this shallow. I'm just trying to make as dramatic of changes as possible while still retaining a realistic look.
First go:
For this one, I obviously beefed him up. I did this with liquify and widening everything below his head. Using liquify messed up the water and his skin, though, so I had to put the original photo underneath and erase the modified layer where the water was. I also had to copy and paste large sections of his original skin, enlarge them, and blend them. I also narrowed his nose, closed his mouth, lowered and brightened his eyes, brought in his ears, and widened his jaw. I then enhanced his muscles with highlights/lowlights, and painted in the bounced light on his right side (our left). Then I finished it up with coloring, contrast, vignetting, and sharpening.
Second go:
And for kicks:
Haha, this one was fun to do. I used liquify and copy/paste/transform to completely raise the crotch of his pants, add folds, squeeze in the shape of his clothes, and adjust his face. I also used another stock photo of him in a barbarian outfit to get that chest bit and the extra hair. I then used the channel mixer to fix the coloration.
The beach background was just me goofing off. It looks pretty silly, but I figured I'd give it a try. I used lots of blurring with layer effects for the bloom-y glow, and I made the rain by taking a plain black layer, adding noise, slightly blurring, increasing levels, then motion blurring, and putting the blending mode on screen. I did that with three different layers to get the rain going in different directions.
I'll post more as I work on them. Let me know what you think! If you guys want, I might eventually write a mini-tutorial on it.
First go:
For this one, I obviously beefed him up. I did this with liquify and widening everything below his head. Using liquify messed up the water and his skin, though, so I had to put the original photo underneath and erase the modified layer where the water was. I also had to copy and paste large sections of his original skin, enlarge them, and blend them. I also narrowed his nose, closed his mouth, lowered and brightened his eyes, brought in his ears, and widened his jaw. I then enhanced his muscles with highlights/lowlights, and painted in the bounced light on his right side (our left). Then I finished it up with coloring, contrast, vignetting, and sharpening.
Second go:
And for kicks:
Haha, this one was fun to do. I used liquify and copy/paste/transform to completely raise the crotch of his pants, add folds, squeeze in the shape of his clothes, and adjust his face. I also used another stock photo of him in a barbarian outfit to get that chest bit and the extra hair. I then used the channel mixer to fix the coloration.
The beach background was just me goofing off. It looks pretty silly, but I figured I'd give it a try. I used lots of blurring with layer effects for the bloom-y glow, and I made the rain by taking a plain black layer, adding noise, slightly blurring, increasing levels, then motion blurring, and putting the blending mode on screen. I did that with three different layers to get the rain going in different directions.
I'll post more as I work on them. Let me know what you think! If you guys want, I might eventually write a mini-tutorial on it.
