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Can anyone tell me the best technique to use for making closed eyes look
open,
plus, is it possible to give someone a slight smile.(the shots arn’t close
ups)
Your help would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe
Gawd! I’m starting to sound a bit like a "broken record." (Most of you are probably not old enough to know what that means, but in the dark-ages of sound recording, a broken, or heavily damaged vinyl disc, containing recorded audio material, would skip at the break and replay the previous groove, ad infinitum.)
Anyway, yes, to a certain extent, you can do this. The replys listing the idea of having some images with open eyes, and variations of a smile are good ones, if you can get them. That is the best resolution to the problem, but not always available. Ben Wilmore, Photoshop CS Studio Techniques, Adobe Press, covers these two fixes. The Liquify Tool is the one of choice, and a subtle use of it is highly recommended. He also covers cosmetic surgery techniques in the same chapter. I do not know if these are covered on his Web site, www. digitalmastery.com, but think the cosmetic surgery proceedures might be, as they are part of his current live presentation. Otherwise, his book gives quite a bit of space to the technique.
Dang, I wish I’d had this Tool years ago, when after shooting a governor for an add, we discovered that in all shots, his eyes were closed, all of them! I had to hunt through thousands of "people shots," to find eyes that resembled his, in an open state, and Paste and blend (long before the Healing Brush) to make his open. He would have squealed, if he had known whose eyes I used, but the production group was sworn to secrecy. Ah, those dark-ages… back when there were vinyl discs with recorded audio :-}
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