- What if I told you you could actually add lashes
in Lightroom, would you be a little bit skeptical?
Well, I hope not.
In this chapter, I want to teach you how exactly to add lashes
to your images in Lightroom.
So you can see in our image
that the lashes are clumped together just slightly
and we would like to maybe add a few lashes
in there to fill out the area above the eye.
So we can easily do that again
by activating our mask icon right here
and then we're going to choose to create a new mask.
And then we're going to use the brush tool
in order to create this mask.
I do have a custom brush for eyelashes,
which I'll be including for you guys
if you stick around to the end.
I definitely want you guys to take a look at
what this brush does
and you'll be able to download it and start using it.
But there are specific settings over here
that I just want to point out.
I like to use a 0.2 or a 0.3 size brush.
So teeny, teeny tiny.
We are going to have the feather all the way up,
but the flow is going to be decreased just a little bit
and then our density is almost all the way up.
And these settings are going to be important
when it comes to creating a realistic look
for our eyelashes in Lightroom.
So I'll go ahead and zoom in quite a bit to our eye here
and then I'm just going to go ahead
and start painting my brush.
And for this, I am specifically using a tablet.
I wouldn't necessarily suggest doing
this type of intricate work with a mouse.
I think that it would be more trouble
than it's worth to be honest.
And what I'm doing is just painting specific lines
over the areas that need to be filled in.
And I'm just trying to mimic the size
and the shape and the curvature
of the existing lashes that are already in our image
and maybe doing a couple lashes
that are slightly pointed in a different direction
which will make them look a little bit more realistic.
So I'm going to be just painting in
and you can see where I'm painting
because of the little yellow icon that you see.
And remember, if you did want to create more lashes,
you do have the option of coming in like we did before,
selecting our little icon here
and choosing to duplicate the lashes,
and then you can click and drag
and put them somewhere else as well
just to fill in those lashes a little bit more.
But for this example specifically right now,
I'm not going to do that
but I did want to let you know that that's an option
so I'm going to go ahead and delete brush one copy
so that we just have our original lashes there.
And then I'll go ahead and zoom out.
I'm going to hit the H key to hide my little access point
over the lashes and then if we click on and off the lashes,
you can see how easy it was to actually fill in
those little gap areas.
There is one little nitpicking thing
that I want to just point out.
We have our original lashes
and then we have the added lashes,
but where the added lashes have painted
over the original lashes, we get an extremely dark color
which I don't necessarily like.
So what I'd like to do is remove the lashes
from those darker tones
so that they're only visible where the image underlying it
is brighter and not over the original lashes.
So what we can do is we can subtract from our lashes
and we can use a luminance range to subtract from.
And now here we have the option
to just click and basically say
I don't want this to be visible
over the darker colors, which is really, really nice
because it's easy to do
and all you have to do is do an eyedropper
on that subtract.
We're doing a subtract luminance range.
We don't want our brush to be visible
over the areas that are darkest
and that's what it's actually done.
If you come in here and you try and do this by hand,
it's very complicated, but what this is,
it's very similar and reminiscent of the blend
if sliders in Photoshop.
You have your entire range
from darkest tonalities to brightest tonalities.
In this image, you have an area in the middle
that's going to be indicative
of wherever your sample point is.
And then between here and here is going to be the blend.
It's going to be the feather.
So it's going to be completely visible here.
And then it's going to fade out until here and then as well
on the other side.
This is probably the most complicated
of the ways to create a specific mask in Lightroom.
And you also have the option to invert it as well.
So the easiest way to use the luminance
is to use the eyedropper and say
I want to subtract this effect from this color.
So that's going to be the easiest way you do it,
but there we go.
We've been able to add lashes very easily in Lightroom
not going over into Photoshop, and you can see it.
If we zoom out to the entire image,
it's going to look nice and realistic
and it's going to look like they were there from the beginning.