Brighten the Eye Area in this Photo ?

[augustya]

Hi Guys,

I need some help, If you have a Look at this photo, the area near the eye which is touching the nose. The inside of the eye which is touching the nose looks very dark. What is the best way to lighten it ? I tried using brightness and contrast adjustment but it is not giving a very natural look is looking very unnatural. How else can I brighten that area ?

 

[NotMyFault]

• Add a selection with lasso tool
• feather selection
• add curves adjustment
• create nodes according to Screenshot
•  set blend range accordingly 
• reduce layer opacity to get natural looking result

[v_kyr]

39 minutes ago, augustya said:

How else can I brighten that area ?

Dodge areas, using the Healing brush tool or Clone brush tool by taking some Ok looking area over ... and so on. - Example adjusting the guys right eye area (from his point of view) to look more like his left eye area via the healing brush ...

 

 

[augustya]

36 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

 Example adjusting the guys right eye area (from his point of view) to look more like his left eye area via the healing brush ...

But that would still make it look darker I want still lighter and brighter.

[augustya]

46 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

• Add a selection with lasso tool
• feather selection
• add curves adjustment
• create nodes according to Screenshot
•  set blend range accordingly 
• reduce layer opacity to get natural looking result

Well ! This is a little too complicated for my Brain to Process....

[v_kyr]

22 minutes ago, augustya said:

But that would still make it look darker I want still lighter and brighter.

Look carefully it looks much lighter on the left eyes zone than what you've shown before. Now the left side looks like the right side.

If it's still too dark for you then pick up and apply something as brush source from a lighter face area, and take that over (applying) to those darker eye areas. You can use some of the retouching tools ...

• Retouching
  • Removing Red Eye
  • Retouching
  • Removing blemishes <-- ***
  • Cloning and healing <--***
  • Inpainting
  • Patching
  • Frequency Separation

... which are meant to be used for such finetune purposes.

[augustya]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

Look carefully it looks much lighter on the left eyes zone than what you've shown before. Now the left side looks like the right side.

If it's still too dark for you then pick up and apply something as brush source from a lighter face area, and take that over (applying) to those darker eye areas. You can use some of the retouching tools ...

• Retouching
  • Removing Red Eye
  • Retouching
  • Removing blemishes <-- ***
  • Cloning and healing <--***
  • Inpainting
  • Patching
  • Frequency Separation

... which are meant to be used for such finetune purposes.

What is the hardness and Flow that I should keep while.dong this ?

[thomaso]

9 minutes ago, augustya said:

What is the hardness and Flow that I should keep while.dong this ?

The Brush options "Hardness" and "Flow" are related to the currently used Brush Size and thus can vary within a certain process. They were discussed & demonstrated in several posts in your recent thread:

[augustya]

33 minutes ago, thomaso said:

The Brush options "Hardness" and "Flow" are related to the currently used Brush Size and thus can vary within a certain process. They were discussed & demonstrated in several posts in your recent thread:

All your comments here are as.if you are the Gate Keeper the Administrator here (Which sadly you are not) of what was discussed before and what could not be discussed again. 

There is hardly any help in any of your comments here. Those are all Sarcastic Comments. 

Why don't you just let peace be here by not commenting on my threads atall. I do not enjoy it like reading your comments as there is no help in it. 

Only blood boiling and provoking comments that you make here.

I have put you on an ignore list but still this forum let's you comment on my threads.

@Dan C This guy is a repeated offender !!

[NotMyFault]

1 hour ago, augustya said:

have put you on an ignore list but still this forum let's you comment on my threads.

@Dan C This guy is a repeated offender !!

If this thread goes down that road, I’m out after this final post.

if you want to ignore someone, go ahead - silent. No need to publicly attack anybody.
 

There is a „report“ button on every post if you think it is against the guidelines. 

[v_kyr]

2 hours ago, augustya said:

What is the hardness and Flow that I should keep while.dong this ?

I mostly use the defaults here as they work quite good for me, but you have to tryout for yourself which settings work best for you. Other than that, related explainations therefor are where Thomaso already pointed to above.

[augustya]

1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:

if you want to ignore someone, go ahead - silent. No need to publicly attack anybody.

I do not want to do it to anyone, This Forum and the people here have helped me and made me learn a lot of things. but with this guy this is a marked observation and experience over a period of time and his back to back kind of accumulated replies to my posts. If you go through all his post on my threads it is all criticizing, blaming, trying to condescend me. Do you not see the insult all that causes to me. is he a forum moderator here ? How much does one take on ?

[Dan C]

2 hours ago, augustya said:

All your comments here are as.if you are the Gate Keeper the Administrator here (Which sadly you are not) of what was discussed before and what could not be discussed again. 

There is hardly any help in any of your comments here. Those are all Sarcastic Comments. 

Why don't you just let peace be here by not commenting on my threads atall. I do not enjoy it like reading your comments as there is no help in it. 

Only blood boiling and provoking comments that you make here.

I have put you on an ignore list but still this forum let's you comment on my threads.

@Dan C This guy is a repeated offender !!

There is no issue with the contents of thomasos post above.

They are simply another user of the Affinity forums and have as much as right as anyone, including yourself, to post here.

If you don't wish to see replies from specific users, please use the Ignore function. As I understand this should mean the replies from this user are hidden to you. It does not 'block' their ability to post within your thread (nor should it).

Please do not '@' tag myself or other forum moderators like this publicly if you have an issue with a post or a user, use the built-in report function of the Forums and this will be dealt with as required.

 

I am locking this thread from further replies. I hope you all enjoy your weekend.