hi natalia! i love your work and your retouching technique! i have one question though: i love that trick with high pass, where you pick up a portion of texture from one cheek and move it to another... though i can't figure out what do you do with history brush after? thanks!
@xcakemix666x right but even magazines don't really want to be paying for ocd'ing type restorers. They have people in their employee to do it. But her work is great and even she says she is a control freak. I quote from her DVD, "I’m a neurotic, detail maniac, control freak" So if that is you then the DVD is for you.
@xcakemix666x You may be right. No doubt she does a good job like a artist doing pointillism taking days or months to complete his work. Then there is Bob Ross who takes a half hour to paint a picture. They both make money and they're both art. There just isn't one way to do things. What she spends hours doing can be done in minutes with a plug in. No big deal. Some people sit on a couch while others have their couches covered in plastic all the time. Enjoy yourself . You have a great laugh :)
@TarquinChurchwell Lol it's like you didn't even read the other posts. The only ones who use plugins are:
A. Those who can't afford to pay for high end retouching like Natalia
B. Those whose objectives in portrait photography are not commercial beauty (i.e. editorial quality)
C. Amateurs
D. Those who don't know any better
You will not see a single L'Oreal, Elle magazine, Gucci, Vogue, Burberry, etc. ad or editorial that does not have this type of "OCD" retouching applied. Beauty plugins =trash
@Goatseeee Funny that when I was dating Christa Worthington, former fashion editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and fashion advisor for Elle and Madamoselle and as I sat in shoots with many famed photographers and retouchers for the magazines you mention I can honestly say your wrong but do know that those mags you speak will take plug in images just as fast as and OCD retouchers. In fact Prada retouchers are now using Lucis Art, Enjoy your week friend
@Goatseeee There are a lot of pages in those magazine. A bit of something for everyone. I also don't hear that Portraiture is desperate for business but at this point it seems you just want to argue so I am bored of ya now. Enjoy what you do as much as I with what I do
This is really good but seriously way too much OCD'ing. I have seen images in the best magazines and none of them seem to be worried about how many pores are on a face and even Maxim recent cover proves that you do need to be extreme anymore. Use a quick plug in like Portrature and the heal brush and you will be on the level of most great retouchers. They use it too but they just won't admit it. Trust me even Julia Child and Wolfgang Puck goes to KFC once in a while.
You must be crazy and your advice is horrible. Real retouches do NOT use plug ins, unless they made them specifically for themselves. This woman has an award winning retouching DVD and probably has retouched some of those MAXIM covers you speak of, so please do not advise her. Also, glamour(MAXIM) retouching is different from beauty retouching, so of course they are not worried about pores on a full body image on a 8x11 page.
@OrgasmikGraphicz Really? So Larry Becker, the Executive of NAPP (Photoshop) is wrong for telling people he uses a plug it to retouch portraits and he is wrong for putting out a casting call for models claiming he is putting them in a magazine. The Suits at Photoshop should be listing to you instead right? Look if you wanna OCD on every pimple and take days to retouch a face then have a great time. The rest of us have deadlines. Enjoy what you do and by your name is sounds like you do. Love it!
the movie is so blurry itself, I can't always tell what she's doing. When she goes to the pull down menues, its tough to read what she is selecting, even when I stop the movie.
Glad to hear it too! Keep up the good work. I would love to post my own vids, but I am big-time lazy. I just spend my whole time criticising other people for using PC's. Well somebody's got to do it! :)
@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
Por favor, Natalia!!! Un poco de conmiseración para los compatriotas del tercer mundo para los cuales, acceder a una mac para retocar fotos (salvo que vivamos de eso) resulta impracticable!!!
If thats your first retouch than not a bad job. I'm joking, that was amazing, thanks for sharing with the world. Also I like your unique style that becomes apparent at the end with the shadows etc. Dont be giving away your technique for nothing to lazy people or free loaders. Being told techniques and learning are two different things, those that want to learn will watch your video over and over again, pausing and slowing it down. Others will just expect to be given it on a plate.
Also, people should recognize that was well-lit and most likely taken with a quality camera and lens -- their results will probably be a lot different than yours!
Nice job. It just confirms my suspicion though, to get top notch professional results takes a lot of work, talent and knowledge, there are no shortcuts.
Oh fantastic. I love your images (as in the retouched ones). I'm a photographer (well on good way) but I think I want to head for the retouching world. Videos like this just inspire! :-) But how come the end result in this video wasn't used for Charlotte Kibbles' website?
waaa you explained it...haha...i watched the scene over and over aain to match with my PS . and hell yes - i'm pretty good at retouching but the trick with the inversed HP is really some awesome trick :)
Hola natalia, felicitaciones por el video y por tu talento, soy un diseñador aficionado, vivo en venezuela, me gustaria si esta a tu disposicion que me ayudaras en algunas cosas, gracias de antemano, mi correo thepower331 por hotmail mi nombre es oscar...
hey youre awsome, i wish i can do that too...i will figure out what you've done and learn it...im just 15 years old xD can you watch my make overs too and say what you think about it? i would be very glad
Fuck mac, its way too over priced! FFS
PoesKlap133 1 week ago
why do you prefer mac over pc?
disruptfam 5 months ago
hi natalia! i love your work and your retouching technique! i have one question though: i love that trick with high pass, where you pick up a portion of texture from one cheek and move it to another... though i can't figure out what do you do with history brush after? thanks!
ivosevicv 7 months ago
Great Video! Incredible Job!
theCheskys 1 year ago
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BettyFlorencec 1 year ago
我爱死这个视频了，太令人吃惊的PHOTOSHOP魔法！支持你！
ptptka 1 year ago
wowww...very awesome tricks that she have..:)
adamkecap 1 year ago
plz slow it and do an actual step by step
albee20 1 year ago
@xcakemix666x right but even magazines don't really want to be paying for ocd'ing type restorers. They have people in their employee to do it. But her work is great and even she says she is a control freak. I quote from her DVD, "I’m a neurotic, detail maniac, control freak" So if that is you then the DVD is for you.
TarquinChurchwell 1 year ago
@xcakemix666x You may be right. No doubt she does a good job like a artist doing pointillism taking days or months to complete his work. Then there is Bob Ross who takes a half hour to paint a picture. They both make money and they're both art. There just isn't one way to do things. What she spends hours doing can be done in minutes with a plug in. No big deal. Some people sit on a couch while others have their couches covered in plastic all the time. Enjoy yourself . You have a great laugh :)
TarquinChurchwell 1 year ago
@TarquinChurchwell Lol it's like you didn't even read the other posts. The only ones who use plugins are:
A. Those who can't afford to pay for high end retouching like Natalia
B. Those whose objectives in portrait photography are not commercial beauty (i.e. editorial quality)
C. Amateurs
D. Those who don't know any better
You will not see a single L'Oreal, Elle magazine, Gucci, Vogue, Burberry, etc. ad or editorial that does not have this type of "OCD" retouching applied. Beauty plugins =trash
Goatseeee 1 year ago
@Goatseeee Funny that when I was dating Christa Worthington, former fashion editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and fashion advisor for Elle and Madamoselle and as I sat in shoots with many famed photographers and retouchers for the magazines you mention I can honestly say your wrong but do know that those mags you speak will take plug in images just as fast as and OCD retouchers. In fact Prada retouchers are now using Lucis Art, Enjoy your week friend
TarquinChurchwell 1 year ago
@TarquinChurchwell Right, and that's why Pascal Dangin and his team at Box Studios are so poor and desperate for business.
Goatseeee 1 year ago
@Goatseeee There are a lot of pages in those magazine. A bit of something for everyone. I also don't hear that Portraiture is desperate for business but at this point it seems you just want to argue so I am bored of ya now. Enjoy what you do as much as I with what I do
TarquinChurchwell 1 year ago
You really do have an amazing talent.
Do you still pretty much use this workflow now?
ashleydaws 1 year ago
This is really good but seriously way too much OCD'ing. I have seen images in the best magazines and none of them seem to be worried about how many pores are on a face and even Maxim recent cover proves that you do need to be extreme anymore. Use a quick plug in like Portrature and the heal brush and you will be on the level of most great retouchers. They use it too but they just won't admit it. Trust me even Julia Child and Wolfgang Puck goes to KFC once in a while.
TarquinChurchwell 1 year ago
@TarquinChurchwell
You must be crazy and your advice is horrible. Real retouches do NOT use plug ins, unless they made them specifically for themselves. This woman has an award winning retouching DVD and probably has retouched some of those MAXIM covers you speak of, so please do not advise her. Also, glamour(MAXIM) retouching is different from beauty retouching, so of course they are not worried about pores on a full body image on a 8x11 page.
OrgasmikGraphicz 1 year ago
@OrgasmikGraphicz Really? So Larry Becker, the Executive of NAPP (Photoshop) is wrong for telling people he uses a plug it to retouch portraits and he is wrong for putting out a casting call for models claiming he is putting them in a magazine. The Suits at Photoshop should be listing to you instead right? Look if you wanna OCD on every pimple and take days to retouch a face then have a great time. The rest of us have deadlines. Enjoy what you do and by your name is sounds like you do. Love it!
TarquinChurchwell 1 year ago
the movie is so blurry itself, I can't always tell what she's doing. When she goes to the pull down menues, its tough to read what she is selecting, even when I stop the movie.
MrTubular13 1 year ago
this. was FANTASTIC
Ichorose 2 years ago
definitely :)
bjratex 2 years ago
Mike from RetouchPRO here, thanks for the inspiration!
luckymokona 2 years ago
what do you do at 3:22? the gray spot you move under her eye. What is that?
yellabell1 2 years ago
@yellabell1 I think she is moving a piece of cheek texture under her eye, because when she painted with a brush, that painted bit lost texture.
bjratex 1 year ago
Nice video, a little overdone, and the eyes creep me out :) Thanks.
InsomStudios 2 years ago
Great video!!! We need to get you to make a dvd on this! :-)
bavlondon 2 years ago
Awesome..
I'm using the soft-light layer in stead of those 2 curves. Is their any reason you prefer the last (it's not as fast as the soft-light method).
The shaping is done really well! Congrats.
LennertG 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Just one question from one retoucher to another: What's with the PC?! A proper designer designer/retoucher uses a Mac! Very disappointing ;)
generalmelchett7 2 years ago
This video was done almost two years Ago when I was still blind I-m now a mac user.
xx
NataliaTaffarel 2 years ago
Glad to hear it too! Keep up the good work. I would love to post my own vids, but I am big-time lazy. I just spend my whole time criticising other people for using PC's. Well somebody's got to do it! :)
generalmelchett7 2 years ago
booo.lol I love my windows 7 ;-p
i do own a hackintosh :-)
tigermanxng 2 years ago
@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
Karlington84 1 year ago
@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
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@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
Karlington84 1 year ago
@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
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@NataliaTaffarel I see that you've become much more skilled since this vid. It's nice though but I think you do much better work nowadays! Or am I right... what's your thaughts on that? Kind regards, a fan.
Karlington84 1 year ago
@NataliaTaffarel
Por favor, Natalia!!! Un poco de conmiseración para los compatriotas del tercer mundo para los cuales, acceder a una mac para retocar fotos (salvo que vivamos de eso) resulta impracticable!!!
Muchas gracias por los tutos!
pablomuggeri 1 year ago
Lol, so true. I had to use a PC recently to transfer some images reminded me how crap they are. MAC always has your back,
mamoderawat 2 years ago
Do you have this guide in a written way to help out? Wonderful work.
morphiuz101 3 years ago
it aint that difficult as most of you think once you developed the routine and got an eye for stuff.
timefrog 3 years ago
NICE.
phonologic 3 years ago
what tool did you use to take away those birthmarks
PUBLilMike 3 years ago
im pretty sure she used the healing brush tool.
missliz06 3 years ago
OWESOME!!
cio90y 3 years ago
Great music and amazing technique. Looks like I will be watching this many more times to come. *bookmarks*
luckymokona 3 years ago
If thats your first retouch than not a bad job. I'm joking, that was amazing, thanks for sharing with the world. Also I like your unique style that becomes apparent at the end with the shadows etc. Dont be giving away your technique for nothing to lazy people or free loaders. Being told techniques and learning are two different things, those that want to learn will watch your video over and over again, pausing and slowing it down. Others will just expect to be given it on a plate.
mamoderawat 3 years ago
WOW, your my photoshop-god now..
LennertG 3 years ago
Awesome , more than awesome , col look and very nice way of working an image. Too bad it's only a look over your shoulder :P
OneDevGiant 3 years ago
MUYYYYY BUENO NATY, LA TENES MUY CLARA (marcos here)
whatahhwhat 3 years ago
owesome
ahmadfer 3 years ago
absolutely amazing job. i wish this was a step-by-step basic tutorial. but brilliant anyway!
batwife9 3 years ago 2
WOW AMAZING WORK!! 5***** :)
tombis82 3 years ago
whoa... that's like 50 types of awesome there! brill job! ;)
starrybright 3 years ago
Also, people should recognize that was well-lit and most likely taken with a quality camera and lens -- their results will probably be a lot different than yours!
jihadsoup 3 years ago
I've never seen the High Pass filter used that way before. I've only seen it used to SHARPEN an image. Can you tell me what you did there?
jihadsoup 3 years ago
High pass used with gaussian blur. Skin smoothing.
dkf10425 3 years ago
Wow, you are awesome. Saved to favorites. No more Portraiture ever after watching this.
dkf10425 3 years ago
Thank you for this video. Very helpful in getting an overall idea for the process.
Mexitalianboy 3 years ago
Nice job. It just confirms my suspicion though, to get top notch professional results takes a lot of work, talent and knowledge, there are no shortcuts.
johansec55 3 years ago 2
and i thought i knew what i was doing lol this is awesome...
earthangeltbug 3 years ago
Amazing work! I'll definitely be studying this to help my retouching :)
mellzdavis32 3 years ago
Oh fantastic. I love your images (as in the retouched ones). I'm a photographer (well on good way) but I think I want to head for the retouching world. Videos like this just inspire! :-) But how come the end result in this video wasn't used for Charlotte Kibbles' website?
xenorita 4 years ago
Any chance we can talk you into doing an actual tutorial?
AliasJaneDoe 4 years ago
this is really god what photo shop software you use?
amdman4you 4 years ago
PS CS3
Thanks for watching
NataliaTaffarel 4 years ago
wow there soo much money are you a photographer i use the paint shop pro x2 is good but not great
amdman4you 4 years ago
I found out the god mothers name.
Do you use blur? or something similar?
And thanks for the video, i learn some useful techniques.
ViejoIvan 4 years ago
how much you charge for the full video tutorial. : )
ronaldleonardi 4 years ago
Gosh.. I wish I have your MSN :<
BeLikeChiii 4 years ago
google me.. you'll find it eventually :)
when you find it (and you really should) just add me, Im always there.
NataliaTaffarel 4 years ago
too much!! anyone....Bueller??
mattharrington26 4 years ago
Bueller?
NataliaTaffarel 4 years ago
I watched so many retouching videos. but yours is just the best.
ur professional. like it.
xtr3w341If3 4 years ago 2
Found you in the Worth1000 forums...THANKS for posting your techniques, you do awesome work.
Marina031 4 years ago
good work! 5 stars
geo000 4 years ago
absolutely amazing, i wish i can see this in full screen TT
Calbeee 4 years ago
verry nice ;) like Glitterguru , u can send our put your movie on speed normaly
thx and i wait your reply
djbrom 4 years ago
waaa you explained it...haha...i watched the scene over and over aain to match with my PS . and hell yes - i'm pretty good at retouching but the trick with the inversed HP is really some awesome trick :)
subxaero 4 years ago
Wonderful =) what blending mode did you put the high pass layer on?
blewguy 4 years ago
High pass is done in high radious with 1/3% glaussian blur and then inverted to be blended in linear light and masked.
Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment :)
NataliaTaffarel 4 years ago
how much for a slower step by step version of this video?
xklusives 4 years ago
Hola natalia, felicitaciones por el video y por tu talento, soy un diseñador aficionado, vivo en venezuela, me gustaria si esta a tu disposicion que me ayudaras en algunas cosas, gracias de antemano, mi correo thepower331 por hotmail mi nombre es oscar...
thepower331 4 years ago
hey youre awsome, i wish i can do that too...i will figure out what you've done and learn it...im just 15 years old xD can you watch my make overs too and say what you think about it? i would be very glad
bye
lllselmalll 4 years ago
wow, that's just some amazing stuff right there
jiminoc 4 years ago
This is amazing. Congratulations Natalia!
arthursoares 4 years ago
the brilliant Natalia ...making us all look better! Cheryl x
bubble84lovely 4 years ago
Thanks Cheryl.
Ladies and gentlemen Cheryls Corea, the talented Make up artists of this shoot :)
NataliaTaffarel 4 years ago
Very cool to see all of that work being fone in such a short time, for that probably was atleast four hours worth of work,
bbiggs 4 years ago