dodging and burning eyes.

[simmonsrandal]

I see posts refering to more or less when refering to Dodginga and burning in the portraits section.
I know what theys functions are in ps CS3 and have messed with them, but haven't been able to get them to help make 'wow' eyes'.

anyone have any good tutorials or tips/tricks for dodging and burning in general and more specifially in relation to people shots?

[rammy]

What Range and Exposure do you use when dodging and burning? If there is enough highlight information and decent colour capture then you should be able to get some decent results.

Use a soft brush.

For the whites of the eyes, change the colour balance if they are yellow or other colour by selecting the area and adding a HSL layer. De-saturate just the colour you want to remove.

Use the dodge tool set to Highlights and the Exposure at 3%. Paint over the whites of the eyes and any highlights in the eyes to make them brighter and whiter.

Use the burn tool set to Shadows and Exposure at 3% to saturate the colours and also add more density.

[SoCal69]

Try this tutorial here:

http://www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=54