Tutorial for help to retouch eyes with Gimp

You can use this tutorial to retouch, correct, fix and improve a face look in a photo portrait with Gimp. You can also use this tutorial for Removal of wrinkles on skin and eye bags under the eye in a picture or image.

Author Yoshi Toshibo for Gimps.de with Photo Software Gimp.

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Retouching eyes in portraits

sexy green eyes photo The eyes are the most important part of the face. Eye color of a baby is the most honest on this earth. Dark eyes often look unattractive, cold, tired and empty. You can improve each photo, picture, portrait and image of a face with dark eyes, if you enhance brightness, lightness and brilliance of the dark eyes with Gimp.

Gimp is a free digital photo editing software,

a program to retouch eyes on images, photos, portraits and pictures. You can use Gimp to improve, retouch, correct, fix or manipulate face, skin, wrinkles, eyes and look in an image or photo.

Guide for retouching eyes with Gimp

#1 select dark sclera of eyes

red green eye photo Select the white sclera of each eye with Gimp's selection tool lasso. Make the selection soft by using the Select » Feather dialog. I used a value of 5 px to make the selection in my image soft.

#2 enhance lightness of dark eyes

dark green eyes photo Reduce the saturation of previously selected white sclera with Tools » Colors » Hue + Saturation to make the eyes more bright, brighter and clearer. I used the following values to improve the eyes in my image: Hue: 0 ; Lightness: 60 ; Saturation: -70.

Improve, enhance lightness in iris of eyes

#1 select the iris in each eye

dark green eyes photo Select the iris of eyes with Gimp's selection tool lasso. Make the selection soft by using the Select » Feather dialog. I used a value of 5 px to make the selection in my image soft.

#2 brighten the iris of eyes

sexy green eyes photo Enhance the brightness and saturation of the iris by using the Tools » Colors » Hue + Saturation dialog. I used the following values to improve the brightness in my image: Hue: 0 ; Lightness: 10 ; Saturation: 35.

This Guide and tutorial explains how to correct, remove, retouch the dark under-eye rings, bags, wrinkles and circles with Gimp.

dark circle under eyes photo The paintbrush of the Gimp is a good tool to retouch the dark under-eye bags, rings, wrinkles, stains and other blemish in an image, picture, photo or portrait. Use the paintbrush to remove, retouch and correct blemish in a photo. After you have gained more experience you can retouch photos and images much better.

#1 paint white over the dark under eye circles

eyes make up photo Create a new transparent layer , Choose white as color to correct, remove and fix dark stains or under-eyes. Choose black as color to remove, retouch and fix bright stains. Paint with a paintbrush on the transparent layer over the spot or blemish that you wish to correct and retouch.

Blur the retouching layer with Filters » Blur » Gaussian Blur. I used a value of 75x75 px to blur the layer in my image.

#2 brighten the brightness of under eye rings

hazel brown eyes photo Set the layer mode of the retouching layer in the layers dialog to Overlay to retouch the underlying layer in the image.

Duplicate the original layer, move the copy to the top of all layers. Set the layer mode of the moved layer to Hue to keep the natural hue and colors of the picture. Duplicate the upper layer, set the layer mode of the duplicated layer to Saturation to keep the natural saturation of colors in the picture.

dark circle under eyes photo hazel brown eyes photo
A photo before and after my retouch with Gimp.

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