Eye Pop
Last night I was playing around with Photoshop and tried a new technique for taking an otherwise dull photo and making the eyes pop.
1) use the mask tool to highlight just the eyes. I always choose everything inside the dark circle around the iris. I don’t include the dark circle itself.
2) demask to everything but the eyes are selected and then adjust saturation downward so that the picture is slightly desaturated.
3) select the inverse so that now the eyes are the only thing selected. Increase the brightness and contrast appropriately so the eyes really pop. The contrast between the desaturated picture and the brightly contrasted eyes will do amazing things to your photo!
I’m still trying to play around with this technique, I think this photo makes him look a little pale. But it’s a fun technique anyway.
May 10, 2008
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