Shine or Not to Shine?

You too can eliminate the shine that can result when you take a picture. All you have to do is follow these simple steps to this great but mostly overlooked trick:
After opening the image, open the same image again in a new window. Photoshop - choose Window - Arrange - New Window. Elements - choose View - New Window


This allows viewing of one window being zoomed in for detail work while the other window stays at 100% so you can judge the effects. Use the Magnifying Glass tool to place a box around the area of shine. Make the box big enough to enclose a fair amount of un-shiny skin also. Then select the Clone tool.

Choose 'Mode' from the top of the screen to 'Darken' and use the slider to set 'Opacity' to 50%. Using the Clone Tool, select an area of un-shiny skin by moving the circle over the area while holding down the 'Alt' button and left-clicking the mouse.

Try to use the area of skin closest to the shine to best match skin tone. To easily resize the circle making up the Clone tool, simply use the bracket keys, [ and ]. This is done much easier than moving the cursor back and forth between the photo and the Size slider. Just click on the shiny area and 'PRESTO" the shine is gone.

It will take a little bit of practice to master this technique for the best effects. Resample the unshiny skin often for larger areas and in the zoomed-in picture make sure to reference the 100% image regularly to track your progress, else your close up editing may become obvious.




Take a look at this video I found on You Tube...
Beauty is a product of photoshop!!