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Cleaning and Brightening Eyes

Lesson 105 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

Cleaning and Brightening Eyes

Lesson 105 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

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105. Cleaning and Brightening Eyes

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Bootcamp Introduction

16:22
2

The Bridge Interface

13:33
3

Setting up Bridge

06:55
4

Overview of Bridge

11:29
5

Practical Application of Bridge

27:56
6

Introduction to Raw Editing

11:00
7

Setting up ACR Preferences & Interface

07:39
8

Global Tools Part 1

16:44
9

Global Tools Part 2

20:01
10

Local Tools

22:56
11

Introduction to the Photoshop Interface

07:13
12

Toolbars, Menus and Windows

25:07
13

Setup and Interface

11:48
14

Adobe Libraries

05:57
15

Saving Files

07:39
16

Introduction to Cropping

12:10
17

Cropping for Composition in ACR

04:44
18

Cropping for Composition in Photoshop

12:40
19

Cropping for the Subject in Post

03:25
20

Cropping for Print

07:34
21

Perspective Cropping in Photoshop

07:11
22

Introduction to Layers

08:42
23

Vector & Raster Layers Basics

05:05
24

Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

27:35
25

Organizing and Managing Layers

15:35
26

Introduction to Layer Tools and Blend Modes

21:34
27

Screen and Multiply and Overlay

09:15
28

Soft Light Blend Mode

07:34
29

Color and Luminosity Blend Modes

12:47
30

Color Burn and Color Dodge Blend Modes

07:43
31

Introduction to Layer Styles

11:43
32

Practical Application: Layer Tools

13:06
33

Introduction to Masks and Brushes

04:43
34

Brush Basics

09:22
35

Custom Brushes

04:01
36

Brush Mask: Vignettes

06:58
37

Brush Mask: Curves Dodge & Burn

06:53
38

Brush Mask: Hue & Saturation

07:52
39

Mask Groups

05:52
40

Clipping Masks

04:11
41

Masking in Adobe Camera Raw

07:06
42

Practical Applications: Masks

14:03
43

Introduction to Selections

05:42
44

Basic Selection Tools

17:41
45

The Pen Tool

11:56
46

Masks from Selections

04:22
47

Selecting Subjects and Masking

07:11
48

Color Range Mask

17:35
49

Luminosity Masks Basics

12:00
50

Introduction to Cleanup Tools

07:02
51

Adobe Camera Raw

10:16
52

Healing and Spot Healing Brush

14:56
53

The Clone Stamp Tool

10:20
54

The Patch Tool

06:38
55

Content Aware Move Tool

04:56
56

Content Aware Fill

06:46
57

Custom Cleanup Selections

15:42
58

Introduction to Shapes and Text

13:46
59

Text Basics

15:57
60

Shape Basics

07:00
61

Adding Text to Pictures

09:46
62

Custom Water Marks

14:05
63

Introduction to Smart Objects

04:37
64

Smart Object Basics

09:13
65

Smart Objects and Filters

09:05
66

Smart Objects and Image Transformation

10:57
67

Smart Objects and Album Layouts

11:40
68

Smart Objects and Composites

10:47
69

Introduction to Image Transforming

04:34
70

ACR and Lens Correction

09:45
71

Photoshop and Lens Correction

14:26
72

The Warp Tool

11:16
73

Perspective Transformations

20:33
74

Introduction to Actions in Photoshop

09:27
75

Introduction to the Actions Panel Interface

05:06
76

Making Your First Action

03:49
77

Modifying Actions After You Record Them

11:38
78

Adding Stops to Actions

04:01
79

Conditional Actions

07:36
80

Actions that Communicate

25:26
81

Introduction to Filters

04:38
82

ACR as a Filter

09:20
83

Helpful Artistic Filters

17:08
84

Helpful Practical Filters

07:08
85

Sharpening with Filters

07:32
86

Rendering Trees

08:20
87

The Oil Paint and Add Noise Filters

15:08
88

Introduction to Editing Video

06:20
89

Timeline for Video

08:15
90

Cropping Video

03:34
91

Adjustment Layers and Video

05:25
92

Building Lookup Tables

07:00
93

Layers, Masking Video & Working with Type

15:11
94

ACR to Edit Video

06:10
95

Animated Gifs

11:39
96

Introduction to Creative Effects

06:08
97

Black, White, and Monochrome

18:05
98

Matte and Cinematic Effects

08:23
99

Gradient Maps and Solid Color Grades

12:20
100

Gradients

04:21
101

Glow and Haze

10:23
102

Introduction to Natural Retouching

05:33
103

Brightening Teeth

10:25
104

Clean Up with the Clone Stamp Tool

08:07
105

Cleaning and Brightening Eyes

16:58
106

Advanced Clean Up Techniques

24:47
107

Introduction to Portrait Workflow & Bridge Organization

14:47
108

ACR for Portraits Pre-Edits

21:27
109

Portrait Workflow Techniques

18:46
110

Introduction to Landscape Workflow & Bridge Organization

12:17
111

Landscape Workflow Techniques

37:36
112

Introduction to Compositing & Bridge

06:59
113

Composite Workflow Techniques

34:01
114

Landscape Composite Projects

24:14
115

Bonus: Rothko and Workspace

05:15
116

Bonus: Adding Textures to Photos

07:05
117

Bonus: The Mask (Extras)

05:18
118

Bonus: The Color Range Mask in ACR

04:54

Lesson Info

Cleaning and Brightening Eyes

There are many different tools that you can use to fix these eyes. You can use Curves adjustment layer, any adjustment layers basically you can use to fix up these areas. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and make a new adjustment layer and use a Curves adjustment layer 'cause I'm very comfortable with the Curves adjustment layer, but if you'd rather use something like Levels or even something like, I think those would probably be your two heavy hitters here, it'd be Levels or Curves. Brightness and Contrast can also do it as well. But what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use the Curves adjustment layer here to brighten up the whole image just so I can see what I'm doing. So it's brightening up the whole image and I'm gonna do very similar to what I did in the last with the teeth. I started by brightening everything up or I started by fixing everything in those teeth and then I went into the mask, I inverted the mask and I painted it in exactly where I wanted those areas to be. So i...

f I click on this mask, I press Ctrl+I to invert it and now I use my brush tool with the color white. Now you can either make a selection for these eyes or if you're comfortable with it, just start brushing in with your brush and you see that I use the Curves adjustment layer to make that a little bit brighter. One thing that I wanna kinda shy away from, though, is taking this a little too far to the edge of the eyes or inside the pupil because those are areas that really draw a lot of character into the eyes, especially around the edge of the eyes, especially someone who has lighter colored eyes like myself or my wife or my sons because that adds a lot of character to the outside and allows you to just kinda fall in to that lighter color. If someone has really dark eyes, then I guess it really doesn't necessarily matter. You're probably not gonna see the differentiation between them. So just painting really lightly, again I started with a really heavy Curves adjustment layer and I'm slowly just kinda painting in on these eyes here. You get really uncomfortable with yourself when you see yourself like this. Them I'm gonna zoom out 'cause it might look unnatural, it might look fake, it might look a little bit creepy if you lighten them too much, if you do something like this then we look like we're something straight out of like a horror movie. Dun dun dun dun like I'm a vampire or something like that. So using the curve, why I like to use the curve on this instead of selecting those pixels and doing something to the pixel layer is that at anytime I can use this Curves adjustment layer to modify how I want that to look, I can make my eyes darker, I can make 'em brighter, or I can come in and make them a little darker in their dark areas and brighter in their bright areas and really start to shape how that color in that eye actually looks and how it naturally works. If I get a little too heavy-handed with this, even if I get heavy-handed right here, we can still do some things to make this blend in a little bit better, here we're just using a Curves adjustment layer, we haven't tapped into Blend modes, and we also haven't tapped into something like maybe Blend If, so that if quite possibly I bring that Curves adjustment layer up and there's some black that's happening inside these inside the eye somewhere and I wanna protect it, I can always make sure that's protected by going into Blend If. So if I come over here and double-click right here, Blend If, zoom in a little bit more on the eye there, bring this over, we start to see that some of that darker area stays if I press Alt or Option and split and feather that over, and bring it in look at that it's really starting to shape that eye so it's only allowing the Curves adjustment layer to really hit anything that's a mid-tone into a highlight of that eye and letting all the other colors just kinda fall into place so that they don't get blown out or or change or alter the color of those eyes, the way they naturally might be. It's just brightening them up a little bit, might darken them down a little bit like that. And that right there would be a little bit more of a natural look on the eyes. If it's too much, you have your blend modes and you also have opacity, if I changed it to something like soft light, it's gonna make the dark areas darker in those eyes, the light areas lighter in those eyes. If I change to something like overlay, we might get a little bit more saturation intensity along with that 'cause it's a boosting contrast. If I change it to color, it's only going to bring the color that I'm manipulating in this curve over onto those eyes. I'm gonna go and just set it to normal, they're still a little a little bit on the vampire side. If I drop the opacity down to something like 70%, 65%, 70%, something like that, maybe even 50%, that looks pretty good there, just lightens 'em up a little bit. Fit on screen, doesn't look unnatural. Maybe I could go a little bit less on those curve. Taper that down, again I'm just trying to stay I'm trying to keep the integrity of what my face looks like and just brighten things up to allow the viewer into those areas so it's not as dark as that those are a little dark, especially in those shadow areas. So I'm just gonna double-click this Curves adjustment layer and call it light lighten eyes. Now cleaning up the eyes, I did say that in when I was doing the presentation this one that I took the these um catch lights that I use it basically um it's not I think it's an octagon box that I was using for this 'cause you can kinda see the maybe it's a uh hexagon, six-sided shape, you can see the six-sided shape in those eyes. If I didn't want a six-sided shape in the eyes and I wanted a different catch light or maybe the catch lights just aren't looking that great and I want to make my own, what we can do is we can zoom into the eyes here and we make a new layer and we need to reconstruct the eye, totally reconstruct the eye to get rid of these so that I can use my own catch lights here. So what I would do in that case is I would probably take a Selection for those eyes. What I would probably do here is actually just do something like this, grab this, like that, oops, my last Selection had a feather on it so I'm gonna change that to zero. Make a Selection for this eye like this and I'll do the same thing over here, well I'll do that separately. So right now if I make a stamp of this, if I press Ctrl+Shift+Alt and E, it's gonna make a stamp of everything that's happening below here but restrict it within this selection. So I'll press Ctrl+Shift+Alt and E, Cmd+Shift+Option E on a Mac, oh actually it's just gonna go ahead and make the entire stamp, that's okay I can deal with that. What I need from this, what I really need from this is I need a stamp of all the stuff that's happening here, I need a stamped copy of all the stuff that's happening in that eye so I've got the stamp there, I'll just press Command or Ctrl+J to duplicate this and I'll call this right eye now because I still have that stamp there I can come over to this side, grab this eye right here like this, and make another duplicate copy from that stamp and call this left eye and then I can delete this stamp altogether, all I needed that stamp for was to just give me the pixel levels, pixel values for what these eyes are. So if I go to I'm gonna start with my right eye first if i go to my right eye and I press Command or Ctrl+T, I can rotate this and flip this pixel thing around. What I'm gonna use that for is to cover up that catch light so I'll right-click and say Flip Horizontal and then I'll just turn it til it fits over this eye. I'll right-click on here and say Flip Vertical too so you got a really nice selection for both sides, I'll zoom in definitely want this to look right okay? Eyes are one of those things that if they don't look perfect things are gonna look really funky. So I'll just I'll move this around like this, if we want to see if we're getting it right and getting it close to where we need it to be we can change this Blend mode to the difference blend mode. If I move this up, if I move this up and around you see where the pupil starts to line up right about there. It's lookin' pretty good, change this back to the regular blend mode and now I just need to mask it in. So I add a mask here why is it coming up black? That's interesting, ah. I made a selection there, Ctrl+D to clear the selection, I'm gonna make a mask, press B for my brush tool, and paint with black to get rid of this area here all the way around the eye, feather this around like that. Kay that's pretty good. And we do that over here too, there we go, yeah. It's pretty good, go over to this side, take our left eye, Command or Ctrl+T, right-click, flip horizontal, flip vertical, get this to fit, maybe I'll flip that back vertical, yeah that'll work, again eyes you gotta be you gotta make sure that there's a nice perfect circle in there, if it's like this, it's like what is going on? What are you on? So go ahead and press Enter on that and then I'll use my brush tool, I make a mask on it with my brush tool set to black, paint that out kay and I'll zoom out, look at that, that's weird. No catch lights in the eyes, catch lights actually are one of those things that's going to add character and life to the eyes. If there's no catch lights in them, you just look like a fake plastic doll, it's really really odd. Let's just look at this right eye for a second. If we look at the shape of this right eye, especially right of like shape and color I should say the color right here in this right eye and the color that's happening back here and then what I replaced it with, it's a little bit odd, isn't it? What can I do? I'll add a Curves adjustment layer above it with a clipping mask, Alt or Option to clip that in, I can darken that down a little bit. Right now I'm working on the left eye and darken that down a little bit to make it match that side. When I do that, I might see that my mask is not that great so I'll just go over to that left eye, paint in that area to get rid of any hard edges. All that curve did was just make that area darker to match that side. Come over to this side, look at this right eye, it's really trippy 'cause I was actually on my right eye, I got it backwards, right eye, left eye, stage right, stage left, ah it's all confusing. So we'll go ahead and press the Curves adjustment layer on this one, Alt or Option to clip this in because this curve, we only want it to affect that eye. Make it a little bit darker, there we go that blends in really nice and we'll just click on the mask, we don't wanna click on the mask of this clipping mask 'cause what have we always said about the clipping mask? The clipping mask is a thief for anything that's going on below it so I don't need to mask right here, I just need to mask right here. If I were to try and get rid of this hard edge on this clipping mask, it won't do anything. I gotta get rid of that mask on the right eye. So I'll just paint in there, get rid of that edge, feather that in a little bit more, there we go. All that work to reconstruct the eye so that we can add our own catch lights. But what we can do here is just to keep ourselves in line here, these are all eye layers, and you notice how this is getting pretty thick now, this is four layers just on these two little portions of those eyes so what I can do is I can grab the left eye bottom layer here, press and hold Shift on the top Curves adjustment layer, press Command or Ctrl+G and put them in a group and call this new eyes. So all of them are contained within that one grouping. And now what I need to do is make my own shape, whatever shape I want that to be to be the catch lights within those eyes. We wanna be careful, though, that we don't make two different shapes cause then it's gonna look really funky but if what we noticed before is if we look at these the catch lights here in these eyes if I zoom in here, this one is a whole hexagon, this one is just like a half of one so we have to keep that in mind on how the catch light's gonna look when we rebuild our new catch light. Let's say I want this to look like more like a strip bank so I want like a four foot strip bank type of light instead of an octagon box 'cause I think those are a little bit more handsome on the eyes, I need to make a shape that is gonna have kinda like a rounded type of rectangle look to it and I can just do that by hand by making a selection. I'll make a new layer, let's turn our, let's leave that leave that grouping off as we make this, well keep the group on, we'll make a new layer, I'll grab my gonna use the polygonal lasso tool or I can use the regular lasso tool, let's use the regular lasso tool and I'm just gonna freehand a strip bank. Now what I need to do for this is I need to fill this in with white, so press Shift+F5, fill it in with white, now by itself, yeah it's a catch light but it's pretty darn potent right? It's not quite what we want. So put left catch um what we can do with this is if we press Ctrl and click on this that'll make a selection for this and then I can make uh a mask on here and after I make that mask, that's a mask that is basically surrounding this selection, I can come over to the feather and I can just start feathering this over and that'll help make it a more natural look. If we look at the catch lights before, though, they do have hard edges, they have hard kinda pixelated edges so we're trying to mimic the exact same thing. So I'll turn that back on, maybe drop the opacity of this a little bit, press Command or Ctrl+T and rotate that and if there's a little bit too much on that catch, just press my brush and then I can brush in or brush out I should say with black any of those areas that are just too much like right there. Notice how it's still maintaining that feather because of the uh feather that we have on the mask. So I'll zoom out and I need to do the same thing on the other side so all I have to do, press Command or Ctrl+J to duplicate that catch light, press V for the move tool and move this over to this eye. Now things are gonna look a little funky, I know it's okay, I'll move this down, press the nudge keys or the arrow keys, if I press the left or right arrow keys or up or down it's gonna nudge that around. Turn this off to see if I've got it just about where I want it, yeah it looks pretty good. But what I might need to do here is get my lasso and just shave the top of this off. Just select it, once it's selected I can paint within a selection so I'm basically protecting the rest of that area and just painting within that selection to paint that area off, might make this a little bit smaller and just freehand some of this a little bit more. And you can play around with different shapes, you can play around with different catch lights, different catch light shapes, and see if you like that catch light better than we had before. It's just slightly different, it's just a little bit less intrusive. What I didn't like about this catch light here is it's almost the same size as my pupil so it's like you know it's just a little bit too big if I add my own catch light there I can make it a little bit slimmer and a little bit more thinner.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Photoshop Bootcamp Plug-In
Textures
Clouds
Painted Backgrounds
1 – Intro to Photoshop Bootcamp
6 – Intro to Raw Editing.zip
11 – Interface and Setup
16 – Intro to Cropping and Composition.zip
22 – Intro to Layers.zip
26 – Intro to Layer Tools.zip
43 – Intro to Selections.zip
50 – Intro to Cleanup Tools.zip
58 – Intro to Shapes and Text.zip
63 – Intro to Smart Objects.zip
69 – Intro to Image Transforming.zip
74 – Intro to Actions.zip
81 – Filters.zip
88 – Intro to Editing Video.zip
96 – Custom Effects.zip
102 – Natural Retouching.zip
107 – Intro to Portrait Workflow.pdf
110 – Intro to Landscape Workflow.zip
112 – Intro to Compositing.zip
115 – Rothko and Interfaces (Bonus Video).zip
33 – Intro to Masks and Brushes.zip
106 - Frequency Separation.zip

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

Amazing course, but don't be fooled into thinking this is a beginner's course for photographers. The problem isn't Blake's explanations; they're top. The problem is the vast scope of this course and the order in which the topics are presented. Take layers for example. When I was first learning Photoshop (back when we learned from books), I found I learned little or nothing from, for example, books that covered layers before they covered how to improve/process photographs. These books taught me how to organize, move, and link layers before they showed me what a layer was actually for. Those books tended to teach me everything there is to know about layers (types of layers, how to organize them, how to move them, how to move them two at a time, how to move them two at a time even if there are other layers between the two you're interested in, useful troubleshooting tips, etc. ) all before I even know (from a photographer's point of view) what it is the things actually do. The examples of organizing, linking, and moving mean everything for graphic designers from Day One, but for photographers not so much. Blake does the same thing as those books. Topics he covers extremely early demand a lot of theoretical imagination for a photographer who doesn't already know quite a bit about what he is talking about. Learning about abstract things first and concrete things later only makes PS that much harder to understand. If you AREN'T a beginner, however, this course is amazing. I thought it would be like an Army Bootcamp, taking you from zero and building you into a fit, competent Photoshop grunt. Now I think it's more like Army Bootcamp for high school varsity jocks. It isn't going to take you from the beginning, but the amount you'll get out of it is nonetheless more than your brain can imagine. I've been using PS for years to improve my photographs, and even to create the odd artistic composite or two. The amount I've learned in the first week is amazing, and every day I learn something -- more like many things -- which I immediately implement to improve my productivity and/or widen the horizons of what I can achieve. If you ARE a photographer who's a Photoshop beginner, I'd take very seriously the advice Blake gives in the introduction: Watch one lesson, and practice the skills and principles you learn in that one lesson for two weeks. THEN watch the next lesson. You can't do that of course without buying the course, so it's up to you to decide whether you'd like to learn Photoshop and master Photoshop all from the same course. Learning it first and mastering it later will cost more money, but I think you'll understand everything better and have a much more enjoyable ride in the process. As for me? I'm going to have to find the money to buy this course. There is simply way too much content in each lesson for me to try to take on all at once, but on the other hand I don't want to miss anything at all that he has to share.

Robert Andrews
 

Blake Rudis is the absolute best in teaching photoshop. His knowledge and how he presents the instruction is clear and concise - there is NO ONE BETTER. Yes, his classes require some basic skills, and maybe I'd organize the order of (or group) the classes in a different order, but, let me be clear - if anyone is to be successful or famous in the Photoshop world, it should be Blake Rudis. I strongly recommend his teaching. I started photography and post processing in 2018, and because of this class, I'm know what Im doing. The energy you get when you create something beautiful is profound, it makes you bounce out of bed (at 4AM) like a 5 year old, to go create. It's a great ride! Thanks Blake, & Thanks Creative live.

Esther Gambrell
 

WOW!!! I've been purchasing CL classes for several years now and have watched HOURS of "How-To Photoshop" classes, but this is the first one I've actually purchased because of the AWESOME BONUS content!!! SERIOUSLY??!!?!? A PLUG-IN??? But not only that, Blake is SO easy to understand, and he breaks down concepts in different ways to connect with different people's learning styles. I REALLY appreciated this approach because I am a LEFT-BRAINED creative that has an engineering background, so I really connected to what Blake was saying. THANK YOU FOR THAT! There are TONS of Photoshop courses out there, but I found this one to be the most helpful in they way Blake teaches concepts so that you know WHY you're doing what your doing. I feel like he taught me how to fish with Photoshop to feed me for a lifetime instead of just giving me a fish to feed me for one day. This is the BEST overall PS course out there!!! Thank you!!!!

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