I've seen four or five times in various threads where ppl enhance eyes using "color burn" and "color dodge"


Can someone elaborate on the steps??

anyone?



Personally, I retouch eyes by using a levels mask, but I'd be interested to know other ideas.

Some time ago I posted a tutorial on the basics of burn and dodge within the context of painting with light:
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=249

It doesn't cover eyes specifically, but it covers the basic principles of b&d.

I've seen four or five times in various threads where ppl enhance eyes using "color burn" and "color dodge"
Can someone elaborate on the steps??

I'm knowledgable with both PWL and D&B.

I thought it was a little more intricate than that considering it was within the context of the eyes.

See Betty Davis Eyes in Eismann's 'Restoration and Retouching". Very Good

Also, to remove red or any color cast in the eye whites, create a blank layer and set its blending mode to color. Use a soft white/black brush set to Hue and 10 to 20%. Brush the color away. This process removes color. Also good on yellow teeth.

Use Dodge/Burn layer to remove veins in eyewhites and lighten if desired. Or clone/heal veins away.

I use this on most portraits so I made an action that creates the set of required layers and places them in a group. Very quick to use and very good results.

Larry