Selective sharpening

Answered in tutorial post for you....
 
Not the way I'd do it (the tut) Personally I'd use a duplicate layer, add the required amount of sharpening, then add a hide all layer mask then paint back in the areas I want sharpened with a soft brush, you can also vary the opacity to fine tune that way. I tend to use a high pass sharpen for selective sharpening but I use the same prinicle of the layer mask.
 
swanseamale47 said:
Not the way I'd do it (the tut) Personally I'd use a duplicate layer, add the required amount of sharpening, then add a hide all layer mask then paint back in the areas I want sharpened with a soft brush, you can also vary the opacity to fine tune that way. I tend to use a high pass sharpen for selective sharpening but I use the same prinicle of the layer mask.
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I do the same, and I also use high pass, alot easier than messing about with selections
 
I use masks too, but use smart sharpen with lens blur selected.
 
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You say in that thread that you want to brighten the eyes and people here are talking about sharpening so I'm not sure what you are really after...

Brightening

Add a curves layer increase the brightness with the curve and just paint over the areas you actually want brightening or

Add a new layer, fill with 50% grey set to overlay and then use the dodge tool on highlights at a low opacity 4-7% and paint over the areas you want to brighten.

Personally I prefer the 50% grey and dodge method, it's non destructive and then you can change the opacity on that layer too if you over did it.

Sharpening

you could also select the eyes cut onto a new layer and sharpen using highpass ( I use around 5) then change the blend mode to overlay and reduce the opacity to how you like it to look.

Loads of ways to do it really....
 
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