- Let's take a minute to talk about under eye circle.
I know, enthralling, right?
So there're a couple things
that cause under eye circles.
One is going to be if your light source
is too high above the head of your model,
you might get a shadow from the brow bone,
which is going to cast a shadow
and darken the area under the eye.
The other reason why you might have dark circles
on your subject is because the skin under the eyes
is much thinner than the rest of the skin
on our bodies.
And you can see the blood that's resting
underneath of it.
And so what are the problems?
It's darker, the skin is darker,
and it's also more blue or more purple-y in color.
So let's think about my 90% rule
when it comes to retouching.
90% of your retouching can be done
by changing a pixel's color
or its brightness/darkness value.
So technically, if we create a brush
that brightens and tweaks the color away from blue,
maybe we'd be able to mitigate those under eyes
in a more realistic way
because we're not going to necessarily
be taking pixels from somewhere else in our image
and plopping them on the problem area.
So in this chapter, I'm going to make you retrain
the way you think about mitigating under eyes
and we're going to get a much more realistic,
beautiful result in the end.
I'll start this section by going ahead
and adding a new mask.
And I'll do that by hitting the plus button right up here.
It's very large.
Can't miss it.
Let's go ahead and hit the plus button.
But then we're going to choose our brush tool again.
Again, that keyboard shortcut is K on your keyboard.
Let's go ahead and double click on the new mask.
We're going to make a few modifications.
We're going to try and reduce the blue-purplish tonality
under the eyes by changing the color.
We're going to skew the color closer
to a warmer tone
and then we're also going to take the tint
and just move that up a little bit as well.
Our next step is going to be
to increase the exposure just slightly
over the area that we're going to be painting in.
And so we'll increase the exposure
to .36 or .37.
There's two more changes that I want to make.
I do want to decrease the clarity under the eyes
just to soften any very fine lines
that we may encounter while we're in there
and while we're brushing over that location.
And then the last thing I want to do
is increase the saturation just slightly
over those areas.
So you can see what I'm talking about here.
You can see under the eyes that it's darker
and it's more blue, right?
It's more bluish, greenish areas under the eyes.
So because of the changes that we've made,
hopefully what's going to happen
is as we paint to this effect
over the under eye areas,
we're going to start seeing those under eyes disappear.
This is extremely important.
We want to make sure that our flow
is significantly throttled for this
because we're going to add it in little by little.
And I'm going to go ahead and paint this effect in
over those areas.
And let's see if we're starting to get a better look
over the under eye area.
And I already see a difference.
So if I hit the eyeball icon right there,
you can see the before and the after under the under eye.
So I'll do the same thing for this area over here.
And I just want to point out, guys and gals
that I haven't cloned anything.
We are literally getting to the nitty gritty,
the underlying reason of why people have under eye shadows
and we're fixing it from there.
We're fixing the color
and we're also fixing the brightness/darkness value.
There is absolutely no reason
why you would have to pull pixels
from a different part of the image
and place them over the under eye areas
if the problems are just your brightness value
and your color difference, okay?
So let's go ahead and hit the eyeball on and off
for those under eyes and there we go.
There's the before and the after.
No cloning to get rid of those under eye areas.
All we've done is we've created a super cool brush
that's going to fix our under eye issues
and we've decreased the flow
so that it comes in at a realistic pace.
And there we go,
we've been able to completely change the paradigm
of how you remove under eye circles from an image.