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Fix complicated hotspots with Photoshop

Fix complicated hotspots with Photoshop

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Fix complicated hotspots with Photoshop

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- [Instructor] Some hotspots are easier to tone down in Photoshop. The highlight on this photo is right at the edge of not having any tone. Ideally, we'd like it to be below 245. Plus the brightness of it pulls your eye away from the rest of her face. Create a new blank layer, activate the brush, and set it on Darken mode. Put the cursor over an area with a similar color, hold down the option key to take a sample of it, and then carefully brush over the highlight. It looks way too solid, so immediately press shift + command + F to bring up the fade options. Lower the opacity until it looks better. Resize the brush and sweep over her nose. Bring up the fade options and pull it back until it looks good. You always want to have a little bit of the highlight showing through to make it more natural. There we go. If the highlights on the nose and forehead had been the same intensity, I could've brushed all the…

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