Portrait Retouch

Artist Reflection 

The strongest technical aspect of my work is the removal of the freckles using the spot removal tool and partially using paint brushes. The technical aspect of my work which could be improved on is smoothing out the face but still retain detail/ texture so it doesn't appear totally fake but rather can still be perceived as realistic. 

The easy part of this art activity was changing the hair color and removing the red tone of the overall image. The difficult part was actually removing all the freckles which was nearly impossible because it was like legitimately her whole face.

I demonstrated the objective of this project by using the paint brush and patch removal tool along with a gaussian blur to remove and clear up her skin. If I could do this art activity again I would probably choose somebody with maybe blemishes rather than freckles or at least somebody with less freckles that didn't blur out towards the edge of the face due to a shallow depth of field because this made it relatively difficult to make those parts look like smooth even skin.