From the course: Learning Photoshop Portrait Retouching

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

What to do when the subject blinks

What to do when the subject blinks - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Learning Photoshop Portrait Retouching

Start my 1-month free trial

What to do when the subject blinks

“

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at a technique, which will give us the ability to combine the best expression for multiple frames together in order to create a better portrait. We'll be working with these photographs here, of two friends, Ashley and Christin, and you can see that the subject on the left, in this frame, has her eyes closed. Let me zoom in on that. You can see that that isn't very good. Fortunately, I have another frame that I've captured, this one over here, where her eyes are open. So I want to combine those two images together. One way to do that is to open up both files, then to click on layer, not the image but the layer, and drag the layer over to the other tab right here, and then let go. This will bring in this other image, as you can see here. Now, the trouble is that these two images aren't aligned very well. They've shifted. And also, my composition has shifted. Here, I'll press F to go to Full Screen mode and zoom out a little bit so you can see this a…

Contents