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cz35895897
Inspiring
February 11, 2018
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Open closed eyes workflow and issues (PSE 2018 and some earlier)

  • February 11, 2018
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So while "open closed eyes" expert enhance edit is very powerful, many reviews however point out the issue of matching skin tone.

Having finally a need to use the feature I have to agree, it is difficult enough to find a good correction source photo that matches the face angle as it is. Then the correction photo picker panel seems to reset to empty with no rhyme nor reason, and it takes a long time to re populate from the "people" album. Then the skin tone...

My current question is dealing with correcting skin tones once a suitable open eye replacement is found and inserted.

I have used layers and clone stamp tool in tone, color, hue, lumosity, and normal modes while keeping opacity quite low.

I also tried guided group photo, and swapping faces, but that did not work well at all.

The clone stamp method works, at an acceptable level, but the result is not great. It also takes about .5 to 1.0 hour per set of eyes.

What would work well is matching the color tone at a selection area between the source and destination eyes. Any ideas on how to do this?

Or what is YOUR workflow for this?

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99jon
99jon
Legend
February 12, 2018

My preferred method is to duplicate the layer before commencing using Ctrl+J or Cmd+J

Then use Open Closed Eyes from the enhance menu, choose an image with eyes and click OK after analysis.

Then click the layer mask button to add a white mask

Ensure the color chip is set to black, select the bush and with a small sized cursor paint around the eyes. This will reveal the layer below the mask and bring back some of the original natural features which can be more easily blended.

Use Layer >> Flatten Image. You can optionally tweak the results using adjust facial features. See my blog.

http://99jon.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/photoshop-elements-2018-premiere.html

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cz35895897Author
Inspiring
February 12, 2018

I will try that. Also I have started to pre process the source and destination faces by doing a remove color cast and using the skin tone dropper on both faces. This gets them close.

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