ABSTRACT
Adding lightness and contrast to the eyes If you lighten the eyes too much they will look unnatural. Worse still, if you make them too white, the whites of the eyes will appear without any detail on the page and print as paper white. I use a fairly simple method for lightening the eyes, which is shown here. Of course, you could just select the whites of the eyes and lighten these areas on their own. That works too, but I fi nd that by applying a Curves adjustment to the whole of the eye area, I can use the curve to anchor the brightness of the iris and tweak the curve to make the whites of the eyes lighter. This is just as effective as selecting the whites only but I fi nd I have simultaneous control over the lightness of the pupils as well as the whites of the eyes.
