{"id":631,"date":"2008-04-18T07:22:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2008-04-18T07:22:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T14:22:06","slug":"photoshop-friday-week-7-fixing-under-eye-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/photoshop-friday-week-7-fixing-under-eye-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop Friday: Week #7 &#8211; Fixing Under-Eye Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the final edited picture that I&#8217;m using today (from a Colorado Springs high school senior portrait shoot&#8211;thanks Ashleigh for being the model today)!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-632\" title=\"high school senior portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/undereyes-final.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs high school senior portrait\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the SOOC version (stands for &#8220;straight out of camera&#8221; with no adjustments):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-639\" title=\"undereyes-s00c1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/undereyes-s00c1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The healing brush in Photoshop is often turned to when skin correction is needed. However, I sort of hate the healing brush. It certainly has its uses, but many times the blemish or under-eye circles are near dark areas of the photo (like hair) and it turns the skin grey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-640\" title=\"undereyes-not-good1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/undereyes-not-good1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The way around that is my preferred method of spot correcting skin, and that&#8217;s to use the clone tool on a separate layer, and then knock back the opacity.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the step by step instructions:<\/p>\n<p>With your photo open, go to LAYERS&gt;DUPLICATE LAYER.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-636\" title=\"undereyes-duplicate-layer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/undereyes-duplicate-layer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"641\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With that top layer selected, use the cloning tool at 50% softness, sample an area directly below the under eye circles (by holding down the control key and clicking on the sample area), and then paint over the darkness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-637\" title=\"undereyes-change-opacity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/undereyes-change-opacity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then adjust the opacity on that top layer to make it all blend together.  This method is great because it leaves a little of the lines\/darkness so that your subject will recognize themselves, but just see a newer, better rested self.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-638\" title=\"final product colorado springs yearbook portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/undereyes-final1.jpg\" alt=\"Colorado Springs final portrait\" width=\"512\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the final edited picture that I&#8217;m using today (from a Colorado Springs high school senior portrait shoot&#8211;thanks Ashleigh for being the model today)! Here is the SOOC version (stands for &#8220;straight out of camera&#8221; with no adjustments): The healing brush in Photoshop is often turned to when skin correction is needed. However, I sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,25],"tags":[35,96,45,94,98],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photoshop-tips","category-senior-portrait-photographer-colorado-springs","tag-photographer","tag-photoshop","tag-teen","tag-tips","tag-tutorial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}