Glass Eyes

I am far from a photoshop pro. I am more like an experimenting amature. I don't know if the way I do things is the "right" way or not. All of this photoshop stuff is self-taught. I believe in taking a correctly exposed picture to begin with and am not crazy about the idea of over processing a photo with Photoshop. That being said it can really help good pictures be great. I have a super old version of Photoshop and rarely use it. I mostly use my Elements 6.0 and that is the program I used for this example. This is a little trick I learned for eyes....

Open the photo....


I thought this was a decent exposure but when I looked at it on screen, I liked it a little lighter so I changed it in Enhance - Adjust Light - Brightness/Contrast . Move the scroll until it looks realistic.



Then I used the quick selection tool (which can be found in your tools bar):



and I selected around each eye.



I then went to Enhance - Unsharp Mask. Again, scroll until you like what you see. It is easy to over do it here. You don't want your baby to look like a fake plastic doll... I usually like the "Amount" to be around 50 and the "Radius" to be around 3.0.

Whala...You have an improved photo (I think in this example I overdid the eyes...see what I mean?)