Retouching: Addendum to photo retouching post below...

Realised as I was looking at my work files, that the method that I am using right now, does not allow me to go back and retouch the skin I had been smoothing. Granted the results are nice, having the ability to go back and retouch anything at all at any time is worth much more then the current workflow I have.

So far I am thinking I need to do things in this order:

1. Color adjustments allowing me to better represent the full range of colors inside of the image. These are then grouped and left at the top of the stack.

2. Skin retouching. This was where I messed up before, I need to actually do this FIRST, and not wait and do it after the skin tone is fixed. The reason being, the current way I do skin tone is uneditable if I do it first. Fixing skin tone second allows me to work out all the blemishes first.... or perhaps I just need to rethink how I work out my skin tone....

3. Skin tone: See above....

Need to think about this..