Earwig and grass hopper study study

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:shock: :shock:

Wow! With that much cleanup in post, the phrase "photorealistic painting" comes to mind.

Can you tell us more about your techniques and how long this takes??

I am particularly curious about how you handle the hundreds of irregular dark areas that look like waterdrop stains.

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rjlittlefield wrote::shock: :shock:

Wow! With that much cleanup in post, the phrase "photorealistic painting" comes to mind.

Can you tell us more about your techniques and how long this takes??

I am particularly curious about how you handle the hundreds of irregular dark areas that look like waterdrop stains.

--Rik
Hehe, I payed my bills during my university days shooting beauty photography for makeup artists who needed before/after photos. Naturally we cheated big time so I have retouched many many square feet of facial skin :) Basically I go over the entire image at 800% doing pixel retouch. cloning, healing, localized curves. An image like this took maybe 4-5 episodes of doctor who :) (I work fastest with something running in the backhround).

I will often miss something so I have a folder that cycles my images as wallpapers on my home and work computers, it's a nice way of finding stupid mistakes that I then go back and fix later.

If there is an interest I could maybe record the screen while retouching an image? I dont do commented videos but a 10x speed video might be interesting to some?
(I cant promise when I have the time to do it though)
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Post by GemBro »

oh right the old blower and Photoshop ... good to see the difference ... cool, thanks ...

And yes I'm too into Photoshop retouching in a big way ... and like you love using it for cleaning up images ... beauty and other ... I use blending methods more than plugins ...

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Post by canonian »

Just had a peek at your Flickr images.
Your work remind me of another great photoshop artist , Tomas Rak / Tomatito.
The same uberclean and PP-ed to the max images, spending many many hours on this stacks.

Hats off to your PS skills and congrats on getting the frontpage.
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Post by scitch »

I would definitely love to see a screen capture video of your touch-up procedure. That could be extremely educational.

Mike
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