Excellent...

Nice job. Ty for the vid.

I do not think is in any way perfect or flawless. You overdid the skin by far, turning her into plastic, and forgot about other vital aspects of retouching, such as resizing and moving eyes, lips, nose, etc.

It's a shame, the original photo is really beautiful. Try to appreciate it.

Nice job!

But you have to learn much more before came back!

(everyone have to learn some stuff ;) )

Now that is COOL. Good job. :)

I can't watch the video? There is no link, no frame nothing? How can i watch it?

Don't see any new techniques. What is special about it?

impresive

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=5iwaQ2zi63c

i did this a year ago! it was fun!

Thats quite a big screen and a tidy new mac for a 17 year old.
Posh kids don't know they're born!

well it's quite ok..

A slower video with some detail as to the techniques used would have been nice.

Nice work.. but adriana doesn't need Photoshop imo ;)

@k3v I agree i like Adriana Lima the way she is. It was just an experiment.

@Mr Kuzio Thanks. I am learning more everyday. This is my first post on Abduzeedo. Fabio is helping me a lot.

@Danny Dawson I actually worked and saved up for almost 2 years to pay for it.

@Every negative comment lol. I know the skin is a bit over done. This was my first try at this. I learned from my mistake. I am currently learning how to resize lip,eyes,nose, etc. And i agree she looked better before. I personally like the natural side. However, i have always been fascinated on how they look so "perfect".

Thank you,

CR

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Ignore all of the Negative comments. If everyone can be honest with them selves we can all agree that we were not producing amazing makeover videos when we were 17. Or using 40 techniques in photoshop

Great Vid and Wonderful transformation!

Kudos to you and keep up the good work

Thanks. I appreciate the negative comments as well as the positive ones. Without negativity you will never learn.

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That is very good photox... Does anyone have a good tutorial on this?

Cameron, really like that "plastic look" - could be straight from Nip/Tuck! lol
Though it might be a bit overdone it's an awesome outcome... don't take those negative feedbacks too serious. Most are just jealous of either your mac or your ps skills. Keep up the fantastic work!

Wow, 3 months! Good work! I like the removal of the light glare on her skin and what you did with her eyes and makeup. Unfortunately the video was too slow and fast to really see what you did - are you going to post the tutorial later? If not, can you post the links to the 2 techniques you said you combined to do this?

Great! a new talent is born!!! you dont have to show exaclty how you did everything... but it would be cool to see a trail of the tutorials you have followed and any book titles you have used to learn all of this... a sneak peak at your bookmarks would be nice! ;)

To get rid of blemishes i used the spot healing brush and clone stamp. To get rid of the shine i used the patch tool and spot healing brush. And for the skin i used Gaussian blur and high pass(to keep the skin texture)

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Lol, I just reread my earlier comment and saw what I wrote: "too slow and fast"! I meant too small and fast :P

Thanks for telling us what you used - I was hoping I would be able to do the same thing in Pixelmator, but it doesn't have those tools. Oh well, I'm sure I can find another way ;)

i am sure you have seen the Dove advert, as your image is inline with some of the techniques they use i was wondering if you know how they stretched the neck?

Concerning the Dove commercial question:
I know for a fact that they used photoshop. That "program" you saw was just a flash animation. I am not sure of the exact method they used. But my guess would be cut out the head from the neck and put on new layer, then stretch and distort the neck using the transform tools, liquify, or clone stamp. Once again i am not sure exactly what they used.

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@ sillla
You can use the clone stamp instead of spot heal brush, use gaussian blur, and unsharp mask instead of high pass. Try it out and let me know how it goes. I am not sure it's going to work, but it's worth a try.

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Hey...
Sometimes they will making the pupils larger to create a more inviting feel to the image... ;-)

It's plastic, but in the good way, I've seen a lot of retouchs and.... no volume and this is very good, some brights and shadows... I like it :)

First off, really nice job with the retouch! Secondly, does anyone know the name of the song he used?

A perfect lie (gabriel & dresden remix) - The engine room

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Hi everybody. I don't know why I cannot see the video? :'(

I wish i could see it .

Excellent work!... You should post the tutorial for us to learn!!!!

Armando
Caracas, Venezuela

Wow. This makes me feel beautiful! I always thought Ms. Lima was gorgeous, albeit spoiled and a brat. But now I realized that I am just as gorgeous as she is. And my husband needn't spend hours touching me up in photos. I will, however, ask him to shave off about 20 lbs in our next portrait! Just kidding. I like being chunky.

That some beautiful work. Congrats.

could you write some tutorial about retouching?

U made it like a pro.

Can you give us specific, step-by-step tutorial?

Muito bom o vídeo!!! Serve como inspiração!!!!
:D

Cameron...amazing work. I can't wait to see what's next!

AMAZING!

that's just fantastic!

WOW

Wow, amazing job Cameron!

please please please
make a tutorial for this..

Seriously good work. I wish I was half as talented with Photoshop as you obviously are.

good job but she looks better before imo.

So you made her look like a painting? Re-touching is supposed to be subtle.

A friend of mine gave me this link, and i found this photo quite interesting, so i decided to do some retouchment to it (it's a pity that i don't have it in high quality). I have been doing this kind of stuff for quite a long time as it is one of my fave activities. Here is my work :)
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5418/baic0.jpg

i want to marry you :o)

With respect to these photographers, I would love to know how develope a editing style from this kind of work:
http://www.headhunterstudio.com/ and http://www.modelmayhem.com/32220

http://www.modelmayhem.com/15033 and http://iiephotography.com/

http://www.modelmayhem.com/14548 and http://www.richcutronephotography.com/user/home.php

http://www.pradofoto.com/

http://www.onyxphotography.com/

WOOOOW AMAZING, GREAT JOB CAMERON

I wish I could take some photoshop lessons from you. You are absolutely amazing. Some one commented it was over done and should be subtle, well depends on what you need it for. Sometimes it needs to be overdone and other times when it is for the model then subtle. You have done an amazing job. Wish I knew how to do what you have done with this beautiful woman.

what is name of song ?

This was awwwwesome! Yes, I wish I could have seen it slow motion, but I still loved it anyway. I'm not an expert on plastic, but this image doesn't appear plastic to me. I see beautiful skin texture...