Reply To: Critiques?

[fstopper89]

It is a pretty small selection but the photos you have are mostly good. I agree that the skin on Candice is over-processed. It almost looks plastic. It’s best to remove blemishes and smooth slightly but try to retain the natural texture of a person’s skin. If her skin was red and blotchy, which is another common problem, you can create a new layer and lower the red or magenta saturation, and then use a layer mask to mask out the rest of the image.

One pet peeve I have is those silly frames or borders around images. Distracting. Just skip them altogether. Putting a slight vignette on a photo is much better, just don’t make your vignettes so intense they’re noticeable.