Editing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

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hi I'm Chelsea and today I'm going to

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show you how to use Lightroom to enhance

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eyes I'm not going to provide a photo

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file today because you can just follow

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along on any portrait but I recommend

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that it's a woman because i'll do a

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little bit of makeup and you don't want

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to do that to a man or child I mean

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maybe you do you know what I take that

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back you just do it you want okay so the

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first thing that I'm going to do is

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select the adjustment brush and the

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effect that I'm going to use is iris

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enhance and I'll make my brush a bit

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bigger you can press o to turn on your

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mask and if you want to change the color

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press shift and oh you do green white

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dark I'm going to go with red since my

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eyes are green and I'm just selecting

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the IRS not the pupil or the whites of

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the eyes so if you press 0 again and you

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get rid of your mask and you can see

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that the iris enhanced just kind of

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sharpens and you can see exactly in this

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panel here what it's doing it enhances

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the clarity and the saturation a little

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bit and ups the exposure and it settle I

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i should mention i'm keeping it really

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subtle i always see that the eyes can

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kind of be over enhanced so what I'm

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guessing is going to happen because this

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is what always happens to me is that I

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do all the edits and then it I make the

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person look like a crazy creepy I person

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and then you go in and you dial it all

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back about twenty thirty percent so I'm

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just going to stick with that going to

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be my method okay so I created a new

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adjustment brush and now I'm going into

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my effects and I'm selecting dodge

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because I want to lagan and can i zoom

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in more oh Lord I can't zoom in more but

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I'm just going to

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here let me put on my mask select the

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whites of the eyes and if you're a

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little bit sloppy like I'm being that's

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okay is you can go to the erase brush

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and let's see let me put my flow almost

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all the way up and drop the size and

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just clean up my selection a bit i'm

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just going to subtly weight in the eyes

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brighten them a little bit the wipes

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brother think that overly

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Dwight's is one of those things that can

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make enhance and the eyes look really

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unnatural and creepy you look at a

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portrait of somebody you don't want to

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thank Wow her eyes are terrifying you

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want to think that's a nice portrait or

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that's a good picture of Bob and Aunt

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Susan okay so let's see this is where

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the exposure was and then it just raised

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it a little bit if you want to

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incrementally raise these you can just

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hover over them and use the up and down

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keys or left and right and that's subtle

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sometimes if my eyes are red or my

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subjects eyes are red I'll also just

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lower the saturation a little bit not

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too much because you get it's very gray

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looking

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Oh raising the high life little okay and

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then I created a new adjustment brush

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and the next thing that I'm going to do

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is light and again and this time I'm

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going to light in around the eyes so

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make my brush a bit bigger and just

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doing like a triangle under the eyes

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because when you light in under the eyes

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that actually brings out the eyes this

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is something people do when they do

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makeup

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and I'll go to my erase brush again and

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lower the flow and then just blend the

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Sun we make my brush bigger and blend it

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in and you can notice that I did kind of

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a triangle under the eyes kind of like

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what you see when you use Rembrandt

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lighting appear to that sort of thing

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okay I'll make a new adjustment brush

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again new mask again and I'm going to

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also lighting around the eyes and do

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this part of the I hear that makes the

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eyes look bigger and right above the

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people that makes the eyes look wider I

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bet your life whoa Chelsea knows a lot

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about eyes it's true do few light and

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under the eyebrows and it makes the arch

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the higher which I don't really need but

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i don't it sounds like I think I'm cool

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i'll select a new adjustment brush and

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now i'm going to do some burning

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kind of like all over the place maybe I

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should have just done the iris first you

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know what kind of call it it cuz i do

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what works for you and I'm just

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selecting the laugh line let me put on

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my mask so you can see what I'm doing

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I'm getting into the lash line I don't

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want to go too far here because then if

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you put dark colors on the inside of the

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eyes that makes them look closer

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together and usually not like a look

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that people are going for and use my

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erase tool

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oh my flow is down me and just get it

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out of my eyes and off of my waterline

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this part right above the lashes this is

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the waterline and you want that to be

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lighter not darker because that makes

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your eyes look bigger

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and you can see if i adjust it down what

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I did kind of like using that is the

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guys let me see I'm just going to blend

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it in a bit more

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so a lot of making new brushes I just

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keep pressing new over and over again

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the reason why I do that is because you

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can go into any of these little pin and

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you can see what you adjusted and you

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can go back and readjust them so just

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making a lot of new pins a lot of new

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adjustment brushes means that you have

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more control over your final edit so I

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can go back in and say well the whites

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look too bright and I can specifically

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change that I brightened a lot of things

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but if I had linked the whites of the

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eyes with the lightning I did around the

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eyes then maybe one thing was bright

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enough but another thing wasn't or vice

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versa and I wouldn't have control over

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that have to erase things and redo them

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so this just makes it easier to go back

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and adjust every little change that you

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make you can see this is the iris

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brightening and you can see it all right

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there let me think okay so I'll make a

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new adjustment layer I'm going to go

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back into burn and you can see I'm

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selecting these effects but then I kind

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of go in and customize them you can do

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that too I recommend that okay one thing

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that brings out the eyes is enhancing

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the dark line around the iris especially

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if the person has the light eyes is then

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it makes the brighter inner part of the

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IRS stand out there's more contract and

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let's see there's a line there and I

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don't want to be too dark

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this layer i think i'm actually going to

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add a little sharpening to that there we

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go

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making a new brush and then I'm keeping

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it in Bern and I'm going to add a little

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bit of makeup but you don't have to do

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but I want to do that letting it here

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when you're adding I shower I shadow

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usually want to follow this line here

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from the corner of the eye to the edge

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of the eyebrow unless the person has

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done something really unusual with their

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eyebrows like where the natural eyebrow

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would be when i go from the corner to

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their eyebrow and kind of just follow

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this pattern

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you

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and then you can go a little bit into

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your lower lash line two

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my hair is here so I'm just going to

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have to pretend that it's not right so

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I'll erase this part and then I'm going

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to lower the flow on my erase brush and

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just blend in what I did

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I'll increase the flow because I just

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want to make sure that there's none in

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my eye

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and I'll turn off

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I'm ask and I'll lower the exposure a

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little bit and then I want to also

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change the color and I have green eyes

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i'm going to go towards the purpley

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color and then also bring down the blues

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a little bit move out to lunch

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and now I have I shadow

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if you bring up the highlights a little

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bit then you get some of the natural

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skin underneath and it looks more

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natural it looks more like it's on my

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skin than it I did this it just looks

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like it looks flat looks like it's just

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sitting on top so you do this and then

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the natural highlights of the skin show

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through and it looks like makeup is

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actually a bud okay so we have I shadow

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eyeliner brightened whites enhance the

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IRS everything a little bit sharpen

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let's do the eyebrow because that's

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important to eyebrows frame your face

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and your eyes so if they're not well

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defined then your eyes don't show as

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much then we'll pop out as much popping

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eyes that's important okay so i have a

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new adjustment layer and it's burn and

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you don't want to do too much one of the

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persons look strange but just naturally

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define their eyebrows and your eyebrow

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should be at the edge of your nose and

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then i add an angle from the side of

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your eye to your nose like this so from

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the corner of the nose so the edge of

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the eye up gain my eyebrows are on point

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okay that's pretty good for two Durkin

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let me zoom out and press Y to see the

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floor and after I don't think I went too

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far this time actually normally what i

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would do is kind of take a break because

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i've been acclimating to all of these

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adjustments go get a drink or a snack or

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whatever go do something else come back

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and look at it again and if your first

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thought is like whoa wait too much to

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the eyes then you know you have to go in

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and kind of undo some of your edits but

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sending here now maybe i'm wrong but it

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looks pretty good oh so one last thing

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that you may or may not want to do is

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add more eyelashes sometimes it works

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out well sometimes it does

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it can depend on the picture I have more

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control in Photoshop but I'm just

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keeping these videos to Lightroom I get

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people asking me that some time but I

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will get to doing Photoshop videos but

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for now business that's happening okay

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so we want the size of the brush all the

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way down that small as it goes and the

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exposure all the way down just so you

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can see what you're doing and you want

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to follow where the lashes already are

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and make them longer I know what you're

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thinking you're like this looks like a

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spider's leg Chelsea this looks stupid

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you're right it's going to get better

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you want to follow the natural arch this

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is a lot easier with my wacom tablet if

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you're into drawing you want to follow

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the natural patterns of eyelashes you

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can see that they crisscross you can add

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like another one like that and like that

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I feel like because I can't I think it's

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the size of the picture it's not letting

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me make my brush as small as I'd want it

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works better when your brush can be

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smaller but so this is what you do and

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you make the lashes a little bit longer

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because what you're going to do is go to

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do a trace brush and put the flow down a

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bit and then you're going to erase the

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tip so that these fake cares that you're

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making naturally paper off like real

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hairs

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look a little bit crummy but it takes a

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little bit of practice to get them

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straightened and now we adjust the

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exposure so that they're far more subtle

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and then you can see it just makes the

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eyelashes a bit thicker that's a holster

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