232 Creating highly reflective sunglasses

Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Deak's techniques.…This week we're going to take this photograph that I captured in White Sands…National Monument in southern New Mexico, and we're going to enhance the…reflectivity of the model's sun glasses, so that they better match the ambient…white sands environment. For which the white sands are named…because, they're white. Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…So, as usual, here are the before and after versions of the image on screen,…just so can check them on. This is the original, and this is the…heavily modified variation Complete with the enhanced sunglasses.…

So how, may you ask, did I do it? Well, let me show you.…Go ahead and switch back to the original. So we're going to start things off with…the Rectangular Marquee tool. We want to go ahead and just marquee a…large portion of the sunglasses like so. Just so we have more than enough stuff to…work with. And then, press Ctrl + Alt + J or Cmd +…Opt + J on the Mac in order to jump to selection and bring up the New Layer…