Hi, I'm new to the whole photoworld. I do have photoshop 6.0and 7.0. I need someone to let me know how to define eyelashes on a photogenic picture and how to define the lips also.

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

Great tips there slynky.

To highlight lips I do something like this (though it may not be the best way, I don't know...I like to take short cuts. This may be dangerous;)

-->Select and Feather the areas of the lips you want to define

-->Create a New Layer while the areas are still selected and Fill with a lighter color, Opacity at something like 25%. Then contract the selection and Fill again, Contract and Fill, Contract and Fill....untill you have achieved the desired definition.

Thanks for the replies. I will try both those and see which is best for me. Thanks again!! Sissy-boogie