So let’s take a look at that crazy eyebrow. It’s way too bushy for the refined look the client is after here. They want it tamer and sleeker. The hairs at the bridge of her nose are going straight up and making her look a bit wolfish. I decide rather than try to reshape them, I will replace them entirely with hairs from the middle of the brow that are going in the right direction. To create my new eyebrow, I used the Liquify Filter, Transform, Clone Stamp, and Dodge, and Burn tools. With the Brush tool, I drew hairs, and I even painted with the Color blending mode (Figure 1.38).
Still working on the Eye Ret layer, I first replaced hairs by lassoing a piece of the better ones and hitting Command/Ctrl 1 J to copy to a new layer and then dragged them into place. Figure 1.39 shows the hair I stole and moved forward and erased around the edges to make it fit a little better. It doesn’t have to be perfect at this point; we will clone and draw additional hairs and
Once you have saved end of the list of presets.
Scroll down if you need to, and click on the preset to apply it to your brush. Once you click
Fig 1.36 New top lashes drawn with preset Brush.
so on to make it look “right.” Figure 1.40 shows the hairs I then cloned out from the original brow on the layer beneath. The little cursive “e” mark is the sign used to mean Delete. When you see this on a markup, it means “remove entirely.”
Merge the layer containing the hairs you moved back into your Eye Ret layer.
Select the entire eyebrow and use Command/Ctrl 1 J to copy to a new layer and Command/Ctrl 1 T to transform. I squeezed mine to make it thinner and then clicked on the Warp icon to turn the Transform tool into the Warp tool and reshaped the brow to my liking (Figures 1.41, 1.41A, 1.41B). I wanted to tweak the shape just a little but keep the original feeling of that impish arch Fig 1.37 The dark curve for eyeliner.
Fig 1.38 The new eyebrow.
toward the back, so I Command/Ctrl clicked on the layer thumbnail to load it as a selection and hit Shift 1 Command/Ctrl 1 X to move into the Liquify interface. I used the Freeze Mask tool to mask out areas that I didn’t want to move (Figure 1.42).
Once I was happy with the shape, I cloned out any hairs that were going the wrong way and drew in some hairs where they were missing. I also saw some areas that looked kind of like holes, but I didn’t really want to put more hair in and decided just to add some tone instead. I got my Lasso tool, and using a 3-pixel feather, I lassoed the holes and hit Command/Ctrl 1 H to hide the selection and Command/Ctrl 1 M to bring up a curve and pushed the master curve up just a few points to add a little tone into the area. Don’t forget the hidden selection, and Deselect before moving on (Figure 1.43).
To finish, I noticed some of the skin beneath the hairs were a little grayish looking, so I got my Brush tool, set it to Color mode at 10% flow, and then sampled a warmer skin tone color from between the eye and the bridge of the nose and brushed some color into the eyebrow to warm it up—just a little.
Don’t go overboard and make it look orange!
Clean up any areas on the skin that you may have disturbed while moving the eyebrow around. Remember to look back at the original background layer to
Fig 1.39 Fig 1.40 Moving hairs forward and deleting hairs.
Figs 1.41, 1.41a, 1.41B Lassoing, transforming, and warping eyebrow.
see the changes you are making and remind yourself where you came from.
This helps to refresh your eye.
Now let’s move on to the right eye. First make a marquee selection of the eye area and hit Command/Ctrl 1 J to copy it to a new layer. We need to match Fig 1.42 Liquify interface with eyebrow.
Fig 1.43 Lassoing holes in brow to add tone.
the feeling of the right eyebrow to the newly refurbished left brow. I started by making it a little thinner with the Warp tool (Figure 1.44).
The front hairs have the same problem as the left brow: they are standing straight up, and we want them to flow better with the other hairs. I selected the area, hit Command/Ctrl 1 J to copy it to a new layer, and then used Command/Ctrl 1 T to warp and bend the hairs to the right (Figure 1.45).
The rest is pretty much following what we did on the right side. The hairs were gray, so I painted on Color mode, broke up any big, clumpy hairs, and filled in the holes. I cloned, drew hairs, and dodged and burned. Be sure to clean up the hairs sticking up across the top of the brow, but don’t make it look too hard or straight-edged. While I was in the area I used the Dodge tool to quickly lighten a few dark splotches above her eyebrow. Yes, I know I told you to make a lighten curve to do your skin retouching, but it’s perfectly OK to dodge small areas to quick effect as you move along through the retouch.
Fig 1.44 Warping the right eyebrow.
Figs 1.45, 1.45a Changing the direction of the hairs by warping.
For the majority of the skin retouching, however, use the dual darken and lighten Curves adjustment layers.