Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Lighten/Darken

Anyone who does retouching will invariably find themselves needing to retouch the wrinkles that show up under people's eyes. In most cases, the Healing brush does an excellent job because it will automatically blend into the surrounding image, but it does have one weakness: It sometimes tries to blend into the eyelashes, which causes the area under the eyes to become too dark. When that's the case, you can use the Clone Stamp tool and sample the area directly below the wrinkles to clone over the wrinkles. But before you start retouching that area, I suggest that you mess with the blending mode settings from the options bar. (We talked about blending modes in Chapter 13, “Enhancement,” so here we'll just look at what we need for ...