- The first thing that any viewer
is going to connect with in a photograph of a person
is going to be the eyes of that person.
So we want to make sure that they shine and sparkle
and look perfect.
So in this section I want to show you an easy way
to add sharpness and dimension to those eyes.
So in order to enhance the eyes
what I want to do is activate my local adjustment brush,
which again, on our keyboard, very simply,
just hitting the "k" key, is going to activate
not only the masking tool, but it's also going to
tell Lightroom that I want to use the brush
to create my mask.
The next thing that I want to do
is come to my effects list
and I want to choose the brush that I'm going to use.
So for this, we're going to choose Iris Enhance,
because I'd like to sharpen her irises
and just make them look a little bit brighter,
little bit more contrast so that we can
really have them pop out of our image.
So I'm going to use my Iris Enhance brush.
I'm going to go ahead and zoom in right over the eyes,
and I'm going to start painting in the effect over the irises.
So what that's doing is making a couple of adjustments
over the eye irises, and we'll show you what those are.
So it's a little bit of brightening, not too much,
adding some clarity to those irises,
adding some saturation to them.
And let's go ahead and just add a little bit of sharpness
into those eyes as well.
So very simply, very quickly, we were able to adjust
just over those irises, add some sharpness,
add a little bit of brightening, add some clarity.
We can go ahead and add some texture too
to the irises just to really make 'em pop,
maybe increase the whites.
And now the irises look really nice.
Okay, so there's our before, and our after.
Our before, and our after.
If we wanted to, we could come in here
and we could go ahead and remove from this mask.
Let's go ahead and activate our mask really quickly.
And we'll hold down the option or alt key
and clean this up a little bit.
So we're holding option, coming over here
and I'm erasing from our mask,
so that I'm not having this effect hit
anywhere else other than just her irises.
Okay, 'cause I was a little bit sloppy with my mask earlier.
Okay, that's looking better.
And then again, to visualize the difference
between the before and the after,
I'm basically just hitting the eyeball icon
next to my mask.