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- [Chris Orwig] Hello friends
and welcome to another tutorial.
My name is Chris Orwig and I am a Sony artisan,
a photographer, author, teacher, among other things.
And in this tutorial I wanna share with you a technique
of how we can improve the eyes inside of lightroom,
using one of these selective adjustment tools.
All right, well if I click on this image
to zoom in a little bit we can see,
we have these beautiful eyes.
I haven't done any retouching yet on this image
but I do wanna work on the eyes.
And one of the ways that you can do that
is by using this tool right here.
What this tool allows us to do
is to draw a radial shape over an area and modify that.
So here,
I'll go ahead and select the tool.
And then I'm gonna start off
just to exaggerate for a moment,
I'm gonna crease my exposure quite a bit.
And I wanna illustrate something here
so if I click and drag out
can you see how it's brightening this part of the image.
Now if we go down to the bottom
we can change the feather value,
no feather means a really hard edge
lots of feather gives us a really nice soft edge.
So, typically you wanna have an edge
depending upon the effect
that has a little more softness than not.
Now we can always change any of these values
simply by using the sliders here.
If you tap the H key,
what you can do is show and hide the overlay graphics
if you find they're distracting just tap the H key
and it will hide those.
Now the other thing that I wanna illustrate is that
you can of course use all these sliders and adjustments.
But then, there's also a brush tool.
So if I click on the brush tool
while were inside of this,
what we can do is we can change some brush qualities
and what I wanna do is erase.
So I'm choosing erase.
I have my brush size here.
I'll remove some of the feather and the flow,
I'll take that down a little bit as well.
Now as I paint over my adjustment
can you see how I'm painting it away,
in different areas,
and I can go ahead and paint it away
'til it's just a small little slice even.
In other words,
you start off with the radial adjustment
and then you customize it.
Now when it comes to eyes
that is really important.
All right,
so let's go ahead and make a new adjustment.
For this adjustment
our recipe is gonna be having actually
quite a bit on our exposure.
Then were going to boost the shadows a lot,
we'll bring our blacks up,
and the reason why these values are so high
is because next were going down to dehaze.
And dehaze tends to darken things
especially the blacks a lot.
But I'm gonna bring this up into the 90's.
So I'm bringing this way up
and then I'm also bringing up
the saturation here as well.
So our combination exposure goes high,
shadows go high,
blacks, they go high,
dehaze, crank that bad boy up,
and then add in some saturation too.
Now will this recipe be perfect or right
depends upon the eyes,
the exposure of the image, etc.
But it's a good starting point.
What were gonna do is
click and drag out over the eye
and as I click and drag out
I wanna get it to just the right size
and then tap the H key to hide that
and then experiment with that feather value
'cause you're gonna need some feather value
so that it has a nice soft edge to it.
Next we need to do is grab our brush.
So I'm gonna grab the brush,
eraser brush
and maybe make this a little bit smaller here.
And of course I need to erase it away
from the top of the eyelid.
I'm decreasing my feather value there too.
And, I actually made a mistake.
I was on the brush A,
which adds to it.
I need to be on the brush erase.
And so, let me go ahead and do that again.
And, let me bring the flow up, a lot.
Now that I have a nice small brush
I'll go ahead and paint over that
and I'll remove it from the eyelid
because the eyelid should not be glowing
like it was.
(Chris chuckles)
All right.
Well now that we have all of that
we can start to experiment a little bit
with some of our sliders and control, controls.
I'm gonna go ahead and test these out
just a touch here.
And as I work on these
what we can start to see is we have this really neat effect
that were bringing in.
If you press the H key
that will bring back your overlay graphic,
you can reposition it just where you want it.
Now the eye obviously looks like a cat eye,
kind of crazy, kind of overdone.
But here's what you do,
typically you start high and then you collapse this.
So click on the triangle icon,
that collapse all your controls into a mount.
And then customize how far you want this to go.
If I go all the way down that disappears,
if I bring this up I can find
just the right amount for this image, and for this eye.
Now once you have the right amount
you can then reuse that on the other eye.
How do you do that?
Well if you right click or control click on the adjustment
there's a menu item which opens up which is duplicate.
So I'll duplicate this,
I'll bring this over here,
and I'm gonna bring it over to this eye over here.
I need to do the same brush work as before
so erase, it didn't bring over that for me
so I need to erase that top part of it.
And then if I want this one to be a little less
'cause it's a little bit more in the shadow
is I can do that.
Now if I zoom out for a minute
so that you can see more of the face
and press the H key
'cause this overlay graphics,
I mean it's impossible to tell right?
You can get a sense on how this looks
and we can click on the flip switch
to see our before
and then click again to see the after.
Now because this is a tutorial I've exaggerated my amount.
If it were a photograph I was going to print,
or post, or share,
I would probably take this amounts down even more.
So to do that you just click on one of the adjustments,
drop that down.
And the reason why is with any kind of adjustment like this
you don't want the viewer to be
so drawn into a specific area
that it kind of overdoes it. Right?
So you wanna try to find that nice,
that nice spot for the image.
And you wanna zoom out too and see how that looks.
And the great thing about this
is you can customize it.
And you can print an image and you realize,
oh, you know what it's, it's too subtle.
Or you can, you can say it's uh,
it's, you know, too strong or whatever it is,
and you can change it.
But I think right about here looks pretty good.
Let me zoom in so that you can see what I'm talking about.
And tap the H key,
and then here I'm flipping at toggle switch
so you can see that before and after.
And then next let me open up these controls
so you can see how it brought all those values down.
Can you see that?
So I started really high,
and then when you collapse them and drag this slider
brings them down.
If I bring this back up
you're gonna see it brings all those sliders back.
But it does it in a uniform way
so they're equally um, decreased.
So you can find just the right mix
with what the look is that you're going for.
All right, well there you have it.
A nice technique for improving eyes
when you're working inside of lightroom.
Thanks for joining me in this tutorial.
I hope you have a fantastic day today,
and I hope to see you in another tutorial.
Bye for now.