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Improve bags under the eyes in Capture One

Improve bags under the eyes in Capture One

From the course: Portrait Photography: High School Seniors

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Improve bags under the eyes in Capture One

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- [Instructor] Most people have some dark area under the eyes. It's a very natural thing. And sometimes you want to just lighten it a bit. Now, I'm not of the school where you get rid of it altogether, I think that can look unnatural, but Capture One Pro has a great healing brush to help you lighten it a bit and just improve the overall portrait. Let's take a look on how to do that. I'm gonna start by creating a new layer, right here. And I'm gonna convert it to heal, so we have a heal layer, and I'm gonna turn on the brush. I'm gonna go over to the brush settings right here, because I want to make sure that I have a nice soft brush. I don't want the brush to be too hard for this particular correction, so I want a nice soft brush, something like that, there we go. And I'm gonna go ahead and give this a name, I'll just call it left eye. Okay, good. And what I'm gonna do now is come up here and I'm gonna sample this area. It's a nice kind of common skin tone here. (laughs) And I'll just…

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