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Masking eyes

Masking eyes - Photoshop Tutorial

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Masking eyes

I'm still working inside that image, Big New irises.psd. I've sharpened the irises using the Smart Sharpen Filter, and now we're going to mask them into the eyes. I'm going to start by turning this new irises layer off, and then I'm going to switchover to my Elliptical Marquee tool once again. And I could do that by pressing the M key of course, and I'm going to begin to trace around the eyes inside of the image. Now, I'm using the Spacebar to align the Selection Outline with the eye, and I am entirely interested in just matching pieces of the eye at a time. Because obviously the eye is not a big circle or a big ellipse or anything like that, it's made of curved arcs however, and we can match those curved arcs using a series of Elliptical Marquee. So I'll go ahead and trace this first one, and I'm going to Spacebar+drag over a little bit, so I'm centering that eye a little better. And then I'm going to press and hold the Shift and Alt keys at the same time. This would be Shift and…

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