How to Retouch Eyes in 5 Minutes! Adobe Lightroom Tutorial Using the Adjustment Brush Video Lecture | Adobe Lightroom CC: Photo Editing Masterclass - Design

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tutorial you saw the title up there
we're going to retouch a pair of eyes
and less than five minutes let me show
you how to do it here in Adobe Lightroom
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how to retouch these eyes in photo of
not Photoshop when I say an in Lightroom
in Adobe Lightroom so I have this
portrait here we just shot it over a
white seamless drop we've got two nice
light coming from a big octa and then I
guess the reflector would have been used
down there I can't quite remember the
exact lighting setup but this is the
image not quite straight out of the
camera we did apply some some brightness
and tonal changes but the bulk of the
editing with regard to the eyes is going
to happen here with our adjustments
brush now one of the things to consider
when you're using the adjustments brush
is probably the most helpful hotkey and
that is the square bracket keys that
allow you to quickly size up or size
down the brush I'm also going to use my
little menu up here so this little
two-to-one menu if I click on that it's
going to zoom me into a two-to-one ratio
so I can really get in close to these
eyes to the point where they start to
look kind of a little crunchy and broken
down but I am going to begin by boosting
the exposure now before we even do
anything here I should mention in this
menu there is a this iris enhance option
I don't know I don't really like to mess
around with the presets that Lightroom
gives me too often sometimes I'll create
my own little preset for the most part I
do it fresh for every image I'm working
on so I'll go with like 0.77 on the
exposure and the first thing I want to
do is paint light into the eye so you
can see how it's painting all this light
in perfectly into the eye that's because
I have this option auto mask turned on
and I'll go through and I'll just paint
light into the eye wherever I feel that
it needs to go and that's definitely far
too much brightness so I'm going to
reduce the exposure down to like zero
yeah
point two three is probably good and
with this brush still active I'll just
go and paint over in the other eye as
well just to finish that up finish
adding the brightness to that eye as
well great so now that we've added
brightness to that part of the eye I'm
going to create a new brush I'm gonna
hit them with the word new right there
new and I'm going to shut off the auto
mask and I'm going to leave my exposure
on a right around 1/2 stop so 0.57 is
probably fine neg my brush a little bit
bigger and I'm going to paint just on
the whites of the eyes just outside of
the colored portion of the eye so just
like that just to add a little bit of
brightness into the eyes just like so
great I also like to go and create
another new brush here and desaturate so
I'm going to double click on exposure
here the exposure handle it's going to
reset it and just knock the the
saturation now negative 45 negative 50s
great and I'm just looking to come into
the really red parts of her eye and I'm
just looking to neutralize the Reds as
much as possible but I don't want to
make them completely desaturate it
because that starts to look pretty fake
as well but one of the other things that
this desaturating brush will do is it
will help get rid of any kind of like
yellowy haze that somebody may have in
their eyes as well another thing that I
like to do and pardon me for moving
along so quickly we're really trying to
just you know knock this out of the park
it's important that we hit the new
button here the new button before we
make any changes down here my next brush
is not going to have saturation but if I
get rid of the saturation now it's going
to actually apply it to my brush so I
want to make sure I hit new first then I
can double click on my saturation slide
or get rid of the saturation and I'm
going to look to darken some stuff up
now so this may seem crazy because we
just did a lot of brightening but hang
with me I'm going to go with an exposure
of about negative 0.5 or so what my
drop-down menu I think I'm going to zoom
into like a 4 to 1 I really want to zoom
in here and I want to make my brush
quite a bit smaller and I want to paint
along the dark edge of the iris there
cool and make my brush a little bit
bigger and just dot a little bit of
darkness into sort of the corners of the
eye if you will so like corners of the
eye corner of the eye then we make my
brush small again and become along the
edge of the iris look that's kind of a
sloppy sloppy stroke there with the
brush come right through that edge of
the iris and when we zoom out we're
going to be able to see like that that's
just way way too strong that effect I
can hit the letter H to make all my
color stops disappear and you can
it's just I mean it's way way too
powerful so let's go ahead like negative
sorry negative zero point two zero let's
try something like that it's a little
bit less pronounced a little bit more
subtle I think I like that quite a bit
more and we can come over here hit the
four to one options they changed the
four to one since that's what we used
and I think what I'll do make my brush a
little bit bigger here I'm going to
reduce the flow of the brush see the
flow down here that's going to kind of
constrict how much exposure we're
dumping and I'm just going to paint to
darken up her eyelashes here that's
going to sort of I don't know just give
me a little bit more contrast sort of
make the make the top of the make the
top of the eye appear just a slightly
heavier give her a little bit more of
that kind of smokey look which is always
cool and then we're going to create one
last new brush and this brush we're
going to bump exposure about a half stop
and all we're looking to do I can leave
my flow at around fifty fifty percent as
well and I'm just looking to paint in a
brightness on any like high contrast
areas of the eye so like these little
catch lights in her eye and hit the
letter H to bring my little of color
markers back and I'll add some
additional brightness to the top of the
eye there and also into the bottom of
the eye here any time you can add sort
of brightness and open up the bottom of
the eye it just tends to add this really
cool depth to the eye somebody hit the
letter H to make all those stops
disappear let's hit this little before
after this little before after switch so
there's before our changes there is
after our changes so we've gone in we
made these changes you have a huge
amount of customization that's at your
fingertips it's so easy to go in you can
click on any one of these if I if I come
back in here real quick if I click on
any one of these others they look the
the desaturating brush is just too much
I can click on that you see saturation
is at negative 45 maybe it really needs
to be negative 25 or maybe needs to be
negative 75 I don't know depending on
what you're working on that will dictate
what settings you to choose over here in
that custom brush so just know you can
go in and quickly update and edit any
one of these color stops once you've
actually created and finished the eye
effect and the key is obviously we want
to be able to go in and do this quickly
I could do this even faster if I wasn't
explaining it to you as well but we
still did a pretty darn quickly now but
obviously if you have a bunch of
portraits lined up you probably want to
boom-boom-boom-boom-boom knock it out
and that's exactly what we've done here
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