This is a really simple way to add a little depth to someone’s eyelashes and even eyebrows if you wanted to. It isn’t beauty retouching, and there are quite a few eyelash brushes available on the net if you feel inclined to give someone a whole new set of eyelashes.
You can practise on my son’s eyes, just click through for the larger image.
So you’ve got your image and you’ve duplicated it and are working on a copy, create a new blank layer above the b/ground layer by clicking on the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette.
Zoom in to 200% and choose a small, soft edged brush and black – or brown if you want. I used a 3px brush, black and the hardness turned all the way down for this particular image.
You can see what I have done in the image below. I changed the blend mode to soft light to see what it looked like.
Still working on the eyelash layer go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and for this image I used a radius of 1.5 pixels.
You can lower the opacity of the layer if you like as well. You can do the top and bottom eyelashes of each eye on seperate layers as well.
Here is the final comparison, probably a little bit overdone but each image will be different and the important part of this technique is the Gaussian Blur.
