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Step Five:
Her irises are a little dark, but that's an
easy fix. Go up to the Options Bar and
lower your brush's Opacity to 50%. Now
paint over both irises to make them a little
brighter (so you're painting them in half
as bright as you did the whites in her eyes),
but avoid painting over the dark outside
ring around her irises, or her pupils. Okay,
now they're brighter, but our next step
will add contrast to them, which makes a
big difference. Press
Command-Option-
Shift-E (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E)
, which cre-
ates a new layer at the top of the layer stack
that looks like a flattened version of your
image (called a “merged layer”). Change the
layer's blend mode to
Soft Light
(one of
the contrast blend modes) and then hide
the contrasty layer behind a black mask
(just like we hid the brighter layer in the
last step). Reset your brush's Opacity to
100%, make sure your Foreground color is
set to white, and paint over just her irises.
It looks a bit too dark and contrasty now,
so lower the layer's Opacity to around 60%
(as shown here).
Step Six:
Next, let's brighten up her teeth (they're
kind of hidden in the shadows), using the
exact same technique we used to brighten
the whites of her eyes. Start by creating a
new merged layer, then change the blend
mode of this layer to
Screen
to brighten
that layer. Now, we'll do the same routine
of Option-clicking (PC: Alt-clicking) on
the Add a Layer Mask icon to hide this
brighter layer behind a black mask. Take
the Brush tool, and this time paint over
her teeth to brighten them. When you
do this, chances are they'll be too bright,
so lower the layer's Opacity to around
70% (as shown here) to make them look
more natural. Her teeth are just a little
bit crooked on the bottom row, so we'll
tweak that next.
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