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Lean how to add catch light to make eyes sparkle and add reflection in Photoshop. Adding a catchlight not only adds shine but also creates dimension in the eyes. Catch light is actually a light source that causes a specular highlight in a subject's eye in an image. They are also referred to as eye lights or Obies.

Lightening up the eyes helps grab the attention of the viewer towards the portrait and hence it forms a very essential but often ignored part of portrait photography retouching.

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Video ID 510
Youtube URL How to Make Eyes Sparkle in Photoshop
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Created 2017-05-04 1:00:47 PM
Updated 2017-05-04 1:15:07 PM

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in this video we gonna learn how to make

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your eyes sparkle by adding a catch

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light besides it also adds depth to your

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eyes so are you ready well be waiting

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for them let's get started before we

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begin I gotta tell you something up

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front if the subjects I already has a

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cache light you don't need to add it

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makes no sense to do it for example in

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this image as you can see it already has

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the light of the softbox so you don't

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need to do it so let's get started with

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an example today so today we're going to

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add catch light to this I so the first

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thing that you need to do you need to

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determine the source of light varies the

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light coming from and what is the source

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of light number one determine what is

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the source of light so in this case as

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it seems it's the Sun so what's the

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shape of the source of light circum if

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the source of light was a softbox or it

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was a special kind of LED or even a

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light ring so the cache light would also

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have been of the same shape hence in

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this case the shape of the source of

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light is circled determined number to

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determine the direction of light so

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various the light coming from is it

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coming from the left is it coming from

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the light is it coming from top bottom

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vers the lights coming from and to

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determine that determine the shadows in

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this case as you can see the shadows are

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on the left side of his face also at the

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same time the light a little bit of

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light is coming from the right hand side

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straight up on his eyes so this conveys

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that the light is coming from the right

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top of the image so let's remember that

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number one source of light the Sun which

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is round number two direction of light

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right top okay so keep that in mind now

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time to create the cache light create a

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new layer and make a selection with the

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circle with the elliptical marquee tool

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selected elliptical marquee tool and the

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shortcut to which is M okay and then

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create a tiny circle here see guys catch

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lights are small they are not as big as

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this they're small okay so once you're

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satisfied with the size of the

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present hold spacebar to move it

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remember this shortcut when you're

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making a circle with a selection or any

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other selection if you want to move the

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selection while you're still holding

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your mouse press and hold spacebar and

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you can move it okay so in this case I

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think it should be this small around

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here and that's pretty okay you can also

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press and hold shift to make sure it's a

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totally a circle and in this case you

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can do that because son is completely

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circle so again press shift to move

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there you go now this position is pretty

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good you can make it a little smaller

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and leave it now fill it with white so

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make sure the foreground color is white

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if it's black press X to toggle between

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foreground and background colour if it's

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some other color press B and then press

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X okay now to fill it press alt or

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option + backspace okay if you're using

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Mac it be optional back into the

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backspace as I said alt or option or

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backspace and if you still cannot do it

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use the paint bucket tool to fill it

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with white now once you have filled it

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with white ctrl D command D if you're

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using Mac's to dis select it and then

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let's add a Gaussian blur go to filter

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blur Gaussian blur okay now keep the

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values to somewhere around I cannot tell

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you the absolute values give the values

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what you feel right should be the blur

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of a catch light so in this case I think

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it's too much maybe 10 or 15 what about

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15 15 is not bad 15 is looking great

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click OK now make a copy of this one to

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make a copy of this one present hold alt

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or option and place the copy right up to

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the opposite of this and on the iris

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actually this is pretty good awesome now

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we need to blur it a little bit more we

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would go to flirt filter filter and blur

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Gaussian blur whatever was the blur

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value of this one double it up so if it

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was 15 keep it 30 do it ok now

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let's move it a little bit you can move

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this too now when you move this one you

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can't move this one you this one is

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moving why because this layer is

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selected if you want to move this check

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auto select and this automatically

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selects layers a pod depending upon

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which object you click on and sometimes

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it's a good thing and sometimes it's not

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a good thing if the objects are

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overlapping each other then you might

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want to check it off okay so i usually

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keep it checked off and this is a

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perfect position this is also a good

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position now let's group both of them so

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select both of them press and hold ctrl

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or command and sailors select both of

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them press ctrl or command G this groups

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both of them now this is looking good

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but it needs to be as it is modified so

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change the blend mode to overlay okay

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now it's looking good but the brightness

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of the couch line is gone so all you

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need to do also there's one demerit of

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it if you change the blend mode to

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overlay the cash light just goes off

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from the dark areas because if you

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remember from my blend mode tutorial

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overlay darkens everything that is dark

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brightens everything that is bright so

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it goes off from the dark areas so you

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need to make a copy of this group okay

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and decrease the opacity quite a bit and

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change the blend mode from overlay to

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pass through or normal ok so this

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applies to the dark areas also now you

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can adjust it according to your liking

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there you go so let's zoom out quite a

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bit and let's look at the before and

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after so let's make a group of both of

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these groups so this is the before this

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is the after if you want to brighten it

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up even more you can always go ahead and

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make a copy as group one make a copy of

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group 1 not group two ok and you can

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increase or decrease the opacity

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according to your want 35 is fine for

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this one so let's look at the before and

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after so this before this is the after

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so that's pretty much it for this video

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hope you enjoyed it and if you did make

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