Photoshop Tutorials: Shadowy, Sultry Eyes
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Summary: Nothing seems to have the power to captivate us quite like a person's eyes, and in this tutorial, we bump up that power even more with a shadowy, sultry look.
Written by Steve Patterson
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Part of our complete collection of Photo Retouch tutorials.
When it comes to grabbing our attention, nothing seems to have the power to captivate us more than a person's eyes, and in this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn a fashion retouching technique to see how easy it is to give someone's eyes a shadowy, sultry look to them. We're also going to be bringing out their colors, adding some highlights, and generally making them look sharper. Keep in mind that this is an "icing on the cake" type of effect, to be done only after an image has already been corrected for tone and color.
Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial:
And here's our final effect:
Let's get started.
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Step 1: Create A New Layer And Name It "Shadows"
With my image open in Photoshop, I currently have one layer, the Background layer, containing my image:
I need to create a new blank layer which is going to hold the shadows, so I'm going to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+N (Win) / Command+Shift+N (Mac) to bring up the New Layer dialog box:
I'm going to name my new layer "shadows", as circled in red above, and then click OK. Photoshop adds my new blank "shadows" layer above my Background layer:
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