Forum: Photoshop


Subject: photogenic lashes and lips

sissy-boogie opened this issue on Jul 25, 2002 ยท 4 posts


Slynky posted Thu, 25 July 2002 at 5:16 PM

depends on how exactly you want to define them really. A number of tools can be used to acent the image. Soem simple ways can be to use the burn and/or sharpen tools with a very small brush on them. Experimenting with varying levels of pressure would be a must. Also, you could zoom in and use the paintbrush itself to draw in by hand accented details. Another way would be to first, make a duplicate of the layer. Then, take the layer underneath the duplicate (first, hide the layer on top so you can see the layer beneath), and use the UnSharp Mask filter to get the degree of sharpness you'd want (which would be applied to the entire picture). Then, on the layer on top, you can do a few things. One, you could merely zoome in, and erase parts of the iamge such as the eye lashes and lips to reveal those parts on the sharpened layer beneath. A safer way (meaning you can easily just revert), would be to go to your layers drop down menu, and select Add LAyer Mask- Reveal all. Then, with the layer mask selected, simply select the paint brush, and black as your colour. Whereever you paint "black," the layer itself will reveal what's underneath, revealing the sharpened eye lashes, etc. It's a safer way, because you can either disable the layer mask, delete the layer mask, or simply select white as your colour, and "paint" over where the "black" was painted to repair any "damage" that you may have done, allowing you to easily go back to fix it up. This is possible with both version 6 and 7. hope this helps a bit. ry