Saturday Special – Easy Eye Pop!

Hello Everyone! Amanda (panders77) with your Saturday Special for this amazing National Digital Scrapbooking Weekend! I hope everyone is enjoying the festivities!! So for today I am going to teach you one of my favorite editing techniques. And it’s my favorite because it takes very little time and really helps! Have you ever noticed the eyes in professional photos really pop? Well, they do this by doing all sorts of fancy editing techniques that I am still struggling to learn..LOL! But if I have a picture that the eyes just need a little boost and I want to scrap it this is what I do..

First here is my original picture(the eyes are good here and these are the best pics to use this technique on. It really just brings a good picture from good to great!):

Okay, so you want to do all your other photo editing first. The eyes should always be your last step! So, take your lasso tool and loosely lasso around the eyes.. this doesn’t have to be perfect. It will look like this..

Then we want to get those eyes in their own layer so duplicate it by pressing control J (in PSE)..

Then..

Now we want to get rid of those scary eyes. So we will change the layer to an overlay.

See? Now the eyes look sharper and brighter! Magic! Now for this photo I decided I wanted them to be a little more sharp so I duplicated the layer for this final result..

See the difference? It is subtle but defintely noticeable.

Here is my LO. I used Erica Zane’s Woodland Fantasy, Brittish Designs and Erica Zane’s Sprite, Erica Zanes Border Dates (Clipped to a paper from Brittish Designs/Sahlin Studios Land of Fantasy) and an Inspired by Mellisa Template by Brittish Designs:

And some awesome inspiration from our Creative team!

Christina used Erica Zanes DSD Grab Bag to create this great Fall LO!

Here are her before and after shots:

Amber used Everyday by Sahlin Studio and **NEW** Clips ‘n’ Bits and Doodley Doo’s Vol. 1 in Stolen Moments’ DSD Grab Bag.

Her before and after shot is REALLY impressive!! She duplicated the layer 3 times..

Now for the rules:
Remember:
**this challenge will run through Nov. 30. At the end of the month I will pick one winner to receive an extra point.
**No double-dipping; your LO must be unique for this challenge.
**You will receive ONE point for participating in the challenge and an additional point if you use a NEW ScrapMatters Product (released within the last seven days). Please be sure to tell me in the forum that you have used a new product to get your extra point!

Can’t wait to see what you create!

Amanda

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