Processing eye in photoshop is the most popular topic on the Internet among photographers. It is the basis of portrait retouching and includes the following steps: suppressing the effect red eyes, change in eye color, eyeball whitening, adding shine and removal bags/bruises under the eyes.
All these actions add expressiveness to the eyes, provided they are processed correctly. As I already said, since the topic of eye treatment is quite popular on the Internet, there are many lessons and techniques, but they are all scattered in parts and I was unable to find a comprehensive lesson, so I decided to make it for you, put it all together one" for convenience. Also, this article will discuss the technique of eye treatment using only standard tools. programs Adobe Photoshop , which frees you from the need to install additional plugins.
How to remove red eyes
Red eye occurs very often when using flashes on the camera. This is due to the fact that the light from the flash is reflected from the fundus of the human eye, which is red (due to the blood vessels). And because If the flash is used in low light, the pupils of the eyes are usually dilated - therefore red eye effect appears most noticeably.
Modern DSLR cameras have internal red-eye reduction, as well as external flashes, which have a rotating head or a light diffuser. But what to do if you don’t have an expensive camera and the red-eye effect appears very often in photos? This will help us, which has a wonderful tool called Red Eye Tool. Our actions:
1. Open the photo in Adobe Photoshop and select a tool Red Eye Tool(button J on the keyboard)
2. Point at the red pupil and press once left mouse button. If the effect still remains, you need to strengthen the effect of the tool by increasing the parameters Pupil Size(Pupil size) and Darken Amount(Shade amount).
3. Done! Now let's compare the result ( hover your mouse over the image below:)
This is the simplest method and many people use it to remove red eyes. But there are times when the tool Red Eye Tool It just doesn't do the job, like in this photo:
In this case, the tool will help us Clone Stamp Tool(button S on the keyboard). Our actions:
1. Open the photo in Photoshop and select the Clone Stamp Tool.
2. Press and hold the key ALT on the keyboard and we don't let her go, point at the pupil of the right eye and press the left mouse button once, then release the ALT key. Now, we point the mouse at the red pupil and begin to “cover up” it. After these steps we should get something like this ( hover your mouse over the image):
3. Done! But sometimes it happens that the second eye is also defective." red eyes“, so we use an even simpler method. Take the tool Lasso Tool(key L on the keyboard) and select the red pupil. Let's go to Image -> Adjustments ->Black & White(keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+Ctrl+B on the keyboard) and set the first value Reds to your liking.
Because for each image it will be different, in this case I set -150% :
The result turned out a little worse than using the Clone Stamp, but it’s still better than it was:
You can see all the actions I took in the video below:
How change eye color
Photoshop is very easy, I'm sure everyone can handle it.
IMPORTANT! Before starting work, always create copy original layer and work only with it.
To do this, open your photo in Adobe Photoshop and select the eyes in any way convenient for you. Personally I used to highlight quick mask mode, to do this, press the key on the keyboard Q and brush over the eyes with a soft brush. After you have selected the eyes, press the button again Q and then the keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+I. The selection is ready, you should get something like this:
Now let's go to Image -> Adjustments -> Color Balance(combination Ctrl+B on the keyboard) and drag the sliders to your liking. For this photo I used the following settings:
Click OK. Ready! Mouse over to the image to see how the eye color has changed after our adjustments:
Add sparkle in the eyes
A mandatory attribute of eye treatment is adding shine and whitening the eyeball, this gives expressiveness and extraordinary beauty to the eyes. We only need one tool called Dodge Tool(button O on the keyboard).
Open the photo in Photoshop and click the button O, in the upper left corner in the graph Range expose Highlights, and in the graph Exposure set according to taste, for example I set 70%.
Now go over the eyes with a soft brush. The tool can be applied to the entire eye, both the pupil and the eyeball, thereby whitening it. Also, usually a little sharpness is added to the eyes in order to emphasize them. Take the tool Sharpen tool and at the top left, set the value Strength by about 25-40% (any other color is possible, the main thing is not to overdo it with sharpness), then go over your eyes with a soft brush. The result should be as follows:
Attention! To achieve a natural effect, you can reduce the transparency of the layer on which we worked to 70%, or even 50%. All the steps to change eye color and add shine can be seen in the video below:
How to remove bags and bruises under the eyes
Bags and dark circles under the eyes are a common problem for us, because... We often don’t get enough sleep, are very tired and work a lot, as a result of which they appear in us. But fortunately, all this can be easily removed in Photoshop using the tool Patch Tool. By the way, this technique is also suitable for removing wrinkles from the face.
Open the photo in Adobe Photoshop and take the Patch Tool
Draw a selection around bags (bruises), then place the mouse on the selection itself, and drag it to a part of the face with a similar texture:
We repeat the same with the second eye. The effect should look like this: 
The main thing is to correctly and accurately select an area and drag it to a similar one in texture, then the effect will be as satisfactory as possible. You can also watch this action on video:
/ remove blood vessels
The final part of our article on eye treatment is cleaning the eyeball from blood vessels. To do this, open our photo in Photoshop and take a tool called Spot Healing Brush(button J on the keyboard). In the upper left corner we set the following parameters for the brush (you can change it to suit you, I just adjusted it for a specific photo)
And we brush over the vessels. You will see the vessels disappear and be replaced by the texture of the eyeball. As a result of processing, you can achieve the following effect:
Also, when the photo is small and this tool does not help, you can simply “ paint over the vessels". Take a regular brush (button B on the keyboard), press ALT and click once on the eye so that the color of your brush becomes the same as that of the eyeball. After that, simply paint over the vessels. Be sure to use a brush with soft edges to make it look more realistic. You can also set the brush opacity to 75% or 50% to make it look realistic.
CONCLUSION
I hope the article was useful to you, because editing eyes in photoshop is an integral part of portrait retouching. All actions were done in Adobe Photoshop CS4, but these lessons are also suitable for versions CS3, CS5 and higher. If you have any questions about eye treatment, you can ask them in the comments to this article.
Glare in photos can be a real problem when processing them in Photoshop. Such “highlights,” if not planned in advance, are very noticeable, distract attention from other details of the photo and generally look unflattering.
The information contained in this lesson will help you effectively remove glare.
Let's consider two special cases.
In the first one we have a photo of a man with oily shine on his face. The texture of the skin is not damaged by exposure.
So, let's try to remove shine from the face in Photoshop.
We have already opened the problematic photo. Create a copy of the background layer ( CTRL+J) and get to work.
Create a new empty layer and change the blending mode to "Blackout".
Then select the tool "Brush".
Now we clamp ALT and take a sample of the skin tone as close to the highlight as possible. If the exposed area is large enough, then it makes sense to take several samples.
Use the resulting shade to paint over the highlights.
We do the same with all the other highlights.
We immediately see the defects that appear. It's good that this problem arose during class. Now we will solve it.
Create a fingerprint of layers using a keyboard shortcut CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E and highlight the problem area with some suitable tool. I'll take advantage "Lasso".
Selected? Click CTRL+J, thereby copying the selected area to a new layer.
The function window will open. First, click on the dark point, thereby taking a sample of the color of the defect. Then use the slider "Scatter" We make sure that only white dots remain in the preview window.
In the compartment "Replacement" Click on the color box and select the desired shade.
The defect has been eliminated, the glare has disappeared.
The second special case is damage to the texture of an object due to overexposure.
This time we'll figure out how to remove glare from the sun in Photoshop.
We have this picture with an overexposed area.
Hi all. Today I will tell you how to quickly and easily remove red eyes from your photo using the built-in application in your iPhone or iPad. Red eye sometimes appears in some photos. There are a lot of red-eye removal tools available, but we will use the ones built into the iPhone and iPad.
So, let's get straight to the lesson itself. Let me remind you that you don’t need to download anything, all the tools are already in your mobile gadget. The only thing you need is a photo that has a face with red eye.
Photo processing
Let's get started removing red eye from your photo. To do this, you need to follow all the steps below:
- Launch the application with the name of the photo on your mobile device iPhone or iPad. Next, you need to select a photo that contains a face with red eye.
- When the red-eye photo opens, you need to click on the “Edit” button, this button is located in the upper right corner of the screen.
- The photo editing mode will open; in order to remove red eyes from the photo, click on the icon with a crossed out eye, this icon is located in the upper left corner.
- Now, to remove red eyes, you need to tap (click) on each eye. After this, the redness will be removed.
After all the above operations, all you have to do is save the photo; to do this, click on the “Done” button. The photo will be saved in your photo gallery on your Apple mobile iPhone or iPad device. In a similar way, you can remove red eyes from all your photos.
That's all for today, I hope this short note helped you and you were able to remove red eyes from your photo. I would be grateful if you leave your opinion on this short note. To leave a comment you can use the comment form below. You must be logged in before commenting. social network VKontakte.
The built-in flash of both the camera and the iPhone is a rather specific thing. It seems to be necessary and useful, but the result is often worse than if the photo was simply grainy or too dark. And if you shoot people with flash, then the main problem becomes the red-eye effect, which turns relatives, friends and comrades into mysterious otherworldly creatures. But this scourge can be fought.
The articles in the series are written for beginners and tell in simple language about useful techniques and features of iOS/OS X.
published on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The reason red eye appears is that when the flash fires, the pupil of the eye does not have time to contract and the light is reflected from the retina, which is covered with tiny blood vessels. The wider the pupil, the more obvious the effect. This is why built-in camera flashes usually fire a series of pre-flashes before the main flash to constrict the pupil. But not the iPhone flash. So we need to deal with “red eyes” after the shooting.
To remove red eye from a photo, you need to open the Photos application, then the photo that needs correction.
Click Change and select the eloquent icon with a crossed out eye on the toolbar.
Now all you need to do is tap on the problem points in the photo - iOS 7 will darken the pupils on its own. Click Apply And Save.
Red-eye removal in the built-in Photo editor is far from ideal (at least because it’s automatic), but it’s sufficient for most everyday photos. And speed is important - in a few touches it’s easy to “treat” a dozen photos. Having turned the creepy ones into quite decent ones.
The scourge of modern digital point-and-shoot cameras is the presence of a built-in flash, which does not so much help as spoil photos. One of the problems is the red-eye problem.
I'll try to use Photoshop to restore the eyes damaged by the camera's built-in flash and leave only the reflection from the lamp. You can, of course, use special filters or programs to remove red eyes, but I was not able to get a normal result with dog pupils (unlike human ones), and it’s more interesting to practice yourself...
Here's part of the photo taken when I, like "Mr. J" from the movie "Men in Black", puffed into my baby's balloons. Of course not a vampire, but still a disgrace.
I won’t invent anything, I’ll take as a basis a simple option with bleaching the pupils.
So let's get started.
I launch PhotoShop and upload my misunderstanding into it J
First, I'll multiply the image by copying layers. I add two copies to the layer called “Background”. This is done very simply. I right-click on the “Background” line and in the menu that appears, select the only available item “Duplicate Layer”. You can change the name of the layer copy or leave it as it is and click “Ok”.
I repeat the steps again and end up with three layers (three identical images):
Now I increase the image scale to 200, or better yet, to 300 percent, this will make it easier to work with the image. You can do this from the menu or with a key combination: increase (Ctrl right +), decrease (Ctrl right -).
I select the pupils with an ellipse (first, use the mouse to select one pupil, then, by pressing and holding the Shift key, select the second pupil). To select an ellipse, just press and hold the top left button on the panel for a while:
We need to select it as accurately as possible, since these will be our new sizes for the pupils.
To the left of the layer name in the layers panel there is an icon with an image of an eye, this is a layer visibility switch, I will need it more than once.
I remove the eye image (making the layer invisible) on the two lower layers, stand on the top layer and press the “Delete” key. Two holes appeared in place of the pupils
and now through this hole I will be able to see the pupils of the second layer.
In my example, the pupils are completely free, but if part of the pupil is covered by a fold, then by erasing the pupils in this way, I also remove part of the fold. It's very easy to return the creased part of the image. You need to select the “historical brush” tool (it restores the erased image),
set its type: “soft brush 9” (you need to choose the size of the brush yourself to make it convenient to work) and erase part of the hole from the pupil, thereby restoring the damaged fold. If part of the luminous pupil has opened with a fold, then you need to carefully clean the hole using an elastic band.
I go to the second layer, turn on the eye (visibility) of this layer and again through the hole in the first layer I see green pupils. We need to paint them over. I select from the menu: Image – Setting – Hue/Saturation. I move the “saturation” slider all the way to the left, but I don’t turn the brightness slider up a bit, otherwise the pupil will be black.
This setting will remove color and reduce brightness in the selected ovals of the active (middle) layer. Please note that I have an active middle layer.
I removed the greenery, but now black rings appear along the contour of the pupils, this does not suit me. I select “Pipette” and click it in the middle of the pupil. The resulting color is needed for the brush. Now I paint over the circles with a brush (preferably a soft one), trying not to paint over the pupils too much.
Let me draw your attention once again, this all happens only in the second (middle) layer
I turn off the visibility on the top and middle layers and see the green eyes again. That's right. I did not touch the bottom layer, and it remained unchanged. I won't touch him in the future. Now, having checked that the focus is on the middle layer, I will continue to mock it. I need to make a reflection from the light source. It remained clearly visible on the bottom layer, so I’ll look at it a couple of times, switching the eye (visibility) on the middle layer.
Now I take a brush with the “soft brush 13” setting and select for it white and with one point touch I make a white dot where I just saw the reflection. The brush size can be smaller or larger, depending on the absolute size of the pupils.
Now, to make a brighter highlight, I select the “hard brush 5” and touch it a couple of times in the center of my resulting reflections.
Well, that’s basically it. All that remains is to combine all the layers into one; to do this, select the menu item: Layer – Perform flattening. Well, don’t forget to save as jpeg (if for printing - with 100% quality).
Now let's compare what happened and what happened.
It is not always possible to see a reflection in the image of overexposed pupils, so sometimes you will have to paint on the lights yourself. Please note that these lights are not located in the middle of the pupil. The simplest option is to turn on the light, take your little one in your arms, and give him noodles. J, and while he listens to you carefully, pay attention to where his reflections are, and draw something like that...
If someone doesn’t understand the details, or the appearance of the menu and Photoshop itself is different, then I’m always ready to chat on the forum. Yes, I installed (temporarily) the sixth Russian version.
Of course, this is not the only way to remove white-red-green balls, but since I don’t work with Photoshop at all (and there is hardly anyone else on the forum as crazy as me, working in the free GIMP graphics package), and I I tried everything along the way in this article, so I ask you at least not to kick it too hard J.
PS. Using the same principle, you can remove red eyes from photographs of people, but in this case everything is much simpler, just follow three steps:
· Enlarge the image for more convenient work;
· Select all red eyes in the photo;
· Move the Hue, Saturation, Brightness sliders to change eye color.
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