Retouching

This project's objective was to take a photo of yourself and clean it up.  One difficulty was with the smoothing; it was hard to find the equilibrium between not enough and an unrealistic editing.  The other was to deal with the facial hair.  When I tried to use the healing or spot healing brushes on such a large area, it looked off.  I ended up keeping the facial hair on my chin but getting rid of it on my neck to give the photo a cleaner look.

Special Effects Orbs

This is a project That I did last year based off a tutorial.  I didn't like the way that the two orbs looked, so I changed them using the same method that I used for the RGB Jellyfish project I did earlier that year (using a soft brush and the smudge tool to alter a circle).

Geometric Self Portrait 

This project was based off of a tutorial.  In the tutorial, the person used a centered image of his face.  The difficult portion of the project was trying to adapt to an off-center image.  By shifting the perspective of the picture and not trying to make both halves of the face symmetrical, I could complete the project.