Tuesday 12 March 2019

Open Closed Eyes feature in Photoshop Elements 2019

Here's a short overview of another neat feature that you'll find in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019. It's called Open Closed Eyes.
When I first spotted this in the new version (Enhance>Open Closed Eyes) I thought it was another of these WOW! type features that sound awesome - but don't really work (and there have been a few of those over the years). But, as I'm currently working on an e-book all about Elements, I thought I'd give it a whirl. 
And you know what? It works. This utility essentially identifies the position of donor's eyes, selects them, feathers the selection, uses some very clever blending to make any copied skin tones blend into the recipient's skin colour range. All you, the user, has to do, is find a similar portrait, preferably of the same person, but it does work with a different person as well.
 

Finding a portrait that has similar skin tones and eye colour does help the accuracy, but it actually works with most portraits, providing they are looking reasonably straight at the lens, and don't have either eye covered with spectacles, hair, etc. 

It works on portraits with closed or blinking eyes- and it works on portraits of folk with open eyes too...

PSE 2019 Open Closed Eyes from Robin Nichols on Vimeo.

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