Eye Sharpening - Photoshop Tutorial. With this tutorial you can create amazing, bright eyes within minutes.
First retouch, adjust levels and do all necessary colour corrections on your image. With a Lasso Tool (L) select the eyes (hold Shift key to add to selection). Hit Ctrl+J to copy selection to a new layer. You can copy the whole layer instead of selecting eyes but applying the filter to the large area like this may take a while on slower computers. Tutorial Magazine / photoshop / effects. Perfect masking using a highpass. 1 Open any picture that contains a big shot of a person / celebrity / whatever.
I use a picture of a well known celebrity. 2 Duplicate the background layer 2 times, you should that layer 3 times then. On the top layer use Filter / Gaussian Blur: 18px. Set the layer to 50% transparency in the layers dialog.Then go to Colors / Invert. You should have something similar to my picture now. 3 Click the right mousebutton on the layer in the layers dialog and choose “Merge down”.Colors / Desaturate (average). The go to Colors / Curves and apply a soft S-curve as seen on the image below. 4 Then choose Brightness & Contrast from the same menu.
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