The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers- P8:This new book, from Photoshop User magazine editor and bestselling author Scott Kelby, starts at the moment your digital camera photos come into Photoshop, and he shows you the Photoshop pros techniques for managing, correcting, retouching and outputting your photos to knock your client's socks off, and turn you into a Photoshop production wizard. | The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers Enhancing and Brightening Eyes This is another one of those 30-second miracles for brightening eyes enhancing the catch lights and generally drawing attention to the eyes by making them look sharp and crisp crisp in rhe sharp and clean sense not crisp in the I burned my retina while looking at the sun kind of crisp . Step One Open the photo you want to retouch. Step Two Go under rhe Filter menu under Sharpen and choose Unsharp Mask. When the Unsharp Mask dialog appears enter your settings if you need some settings go to the first technique in the Sharpening chapter then click OK to sharpen the entire photo. Unsharp Mask 196 Chapter 6 Retouching Portraits The Photoshop Book tor Digital Photographers Step Three After you ve applied the Unsharp Mask filter apply it again using the same set-tings by pressing Command-F PC Control and then apply it one more time using the same keyboard shortcut you ll apply it three times in all . The eyes will probably look nice and crisp at this point but the rest of the person will be severely oversharpened and you ll probably see lots of noise and other unpleasant artifacts. Step Four Co under the Window menu and choose History to bring up the History palette. This palette keeps track of your last 20 steps and you ll see the four steps you ve done thus far listed in the palette an Open step followed by three Unsharp Mask steps. By the way these steps are actually called History States . Click on the Open State to return your photo to how it looked before you applied rhe Unsharp Mask filter. Step Five In the History palette click once in the first column beside the last Unsharp Mask State as shown in the previous capture . Now switch to the History Brush and choose a soft-edged brush about the size of the iris. Click once right over the ins and It will paint in the crisp thrice-sharpened eye leaving the rest of the face untouched. It does this because you clicked in that first column in the
