
These are both pretty basic edits, with adjustments to hue, saturation, levels, removal of unwanted background items, adjustment of skin tones and cropping as needed.
These next photos are edits I did for the Three Peaks Elementary yearbook. Several Staff and faculty members asked me to do some retouching for them and these are the results. Some wanted a very natural look, just refined or softened a bit, while some wanted a more made up look, so I did both for everyone and gave them the choice as to which picture would go in the yearbook. Retouching portraits is a very delicate art, too much and a persons starts to look plastic, too little and an unflattering photo doesn't represent their true beauty.