Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

ADD DEPTH TO THE EYES AND LIPS to enhance them
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When you work on any portrait, you need to make
small changes. Large changes are too often obvious,
and your subjects want to see themselves and be
seen at their best, not different. Using multiple layers,
you can easily create more variations in brush strokes
and color and adjust the opacity of each layer
independently. With adjustments on multiple layers, it
is also easier to delete enhancements that do not
seem natural.
Using a pressure-sensitive pen tablet also gives more
variety to brush strokes. Many of the brush options
can be set to respond to pressure or tilt, allowing you
to alter brush styles with fewer trips to the Brushes
panel. Use light brush strokes rather than heavy ones
and the Photoshop brushes respond to the pressure.
Making the eyes sparkle by using Vibrance
adjustments and variation of digital dodging and
burning in Photoshop helps draw the viewers’
attention to the eyes and engages them in the
photo.
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) Click Brush Tip Shape.
q Select a very small brush to
match the size of the eyelashes.
w Click and drag the Hardness
slider to 100% to build a
completely hard-edged brush.
e Drag the brush angle and the
dots on the roundness icon to
conform the brush shape to the
eyelashes of one eye.
r Paint over the eyelashes one at a
time to darken them.
t Repeat steps 23 and 24 to adjust
the brush for different-angled
eyelashes.
y Press the spacebar and click and
drag in the image to move to the
other eye.
u Repeat steps 23 and 24, adjusting
the brush to fit the shape of the
lashes of the other eye.
i Click the Brushes close button to
close the Brushes panel.
o Press Option+spacebar
(Alt+spacebar) and click in the
image to zoom out to see the
whole face.
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