hey guys welcome welcome back if you're just joining us basically on the last video we did a
bit of a skin retouch which was basically just how to find and remove all those pesky little
blemishes that you can see if you've not watched that i'm gonna go ahead and link that above
but in today's video i'm going to show you a little secret trick to getting perfect eyes
okay so we've got eyes in this image right um they're great they're fine but the highlights
in the eyes are not brighter than the other highlights in the image and therefore it's
not particularly eye-catching however the main issue for me is that we've got some duplicate
catch lights which can be a major pain and the eyes just look a little bit dull
so we're going to do a two-step fix for this so we're going to repair
this eye to remove the secondary catch light when the secondary catch light if you've not guessed
already was because of a reflector down here which is giving us light up into this side of the face
the eye the side of the head the temples and of course the bottom of the eye so that reflector is
visible in this eye but not in this one because it was so far over yonder now to get rid of that
to get a handle on that there are multiple things that you can do to be fair the easiest one i think
for this one is going to be a flip job because the light that was coming in the main key light
up here right at the top is kind of top down so it's quite even so what we can do is we can
utilize this eye to help fix this eye or you could if you wanted to just go ahead with a healing
brush or a clone stamp and begin to repair either or do you see that's really not done a bad job
okay so that is another option now let's say for argument's sake you want to do the other method
that's fine i'm here for that we can go ahead and grab our clone source tool and using the
similar techniques to the five ways to remove stuff in photoshop which i'll link
above we can go ahead and make sure that in our window tab we are showing our clone source
now our clone source mine personally is over here and with this done we can then flip by pressing
uh the little flippy buttons here and rotate the clone source what we're going to do in
this instance is we're just going to do a straight horizontal flip which is that one
and that means that when i pull a sample of this eye from here i can then dust it over here and
it will just immediately copy what's on the other side so that's done a pretty good job to be honest
there's very oops oops there's very little that i need to do to go ahead and fix that potentially
take out a little bit but i've destroyed the eyelashes okay we're super zoomed in let's go back
now destroying the eyelashes is not a big deal really because i'm on a retouch layer so
i can just go ahead and go up to my history over here and my history this is what i've just done
right but the eyelash was fine in this one right so do you see how here there is stuff in that one
but there is not in that one what i can do is just click the little box next to that line in
the history and then what that does is that gives us our history brush now the history brush only
works if you've not changed the state or cropped the image but what the history brush does do
is it will just bring back what was on that layer this one and in that specific area so we
can bring back all of that detail all of those details in the eyelashes through that let's go
back do i have any more no there's no more maybe a little bit over here i'll just pull that back
so that gives us a repair job which to be fair is pretty bang on now i'm just going to super quickly
go in with a healing brush tool and because i altered my clone source i need to go back
and just reset that off because otherwise it's going to be flipping it all the way home
then i'm just going to go and do a little repair over here just to make sure that we
still got our continuity and that is step one so step one has given us a better eye
of course i was using this on a retouch layer already so it's retouching that side of the eye
but the eyes are looking a little bit dull what can we do well we've done iris enhancers before
on multiple dog edits but it works just the same but for humans we can go a little bit further so
we can go with a curves adjustment layer and do an iris enhance just like we would normally do now
that curve is super strong as we can see but what we can do is go ahead and switch the blend mode
into overlay now overlay will give us a benefit because it adds contrast so when we invert that
grab a brush and using either a brush and your mouse or a pen and a tablet you can drop the opacity of that
let's put the flow up to 100 and let's drop the opacity down to say 10. you could leave it the
other way around if you wanted to and then what we want to do because this is a black
mask is go ahead and paint on it in white and we can just start to add light now we're focusing
if you notice i'm focusing on the lower side of the iris i don't want to do the whole thing
because it's never going to look natural so what i'm going to do is just focus on the lower
side of the iris and again lower side lower side lower side using flow in a pen really does make
this a lot easier but we don't all have access to that i would definitely recommend going ahead
and going over your catch lights as well using overlay for this is really nice and that gives
us a little bit of focus now let's say for example that you have a situation like we have here where
there's a little bit of a discoloration a little bit of jaundice in the eyes a little bit yellow
now that yellow i know because dan just came off of a night shift so he's exhausted but taking that
out is quite straightforward we just use a normal decast method you don't want to brighten them up
too much because it looks again unnatural so we'll grab a hue saturation layer bring the saturation
right the way down to the left invert that mask grabbing a brush and this time maybe
50 opacity we're just going to go ahead and 50 is obviously going to be too strong that's fine
we're just going to go ahead and just paint so that we can see where were painting okay
so we're wanting to just get all up into that area where there was the uh the the discoloration there
and we don't want it to be completely black and white because i mean guys nobody's eyes are like
this but what we can do from this point is just to bring that opacity back about halfway sometimes a
little bit less and what that'll do is it will just take out the discoloration so if we're looking
just here focus your eyes here this is after and this is before after before after so zooming out
now if i go ahead and group these retouch layers together and call them i don't know retouch
for example um we've got our original uh import the raw file behind that's before that's now
before and now nice and subtle doesn't overcook anything and then when you add your edit onto the
top it all just works together i hope this video has been helpful for you if it has please do let
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thanks so much for watching i'll see you all again really really soon