So it’s best that you zoom out every once in a while to see the before and after and make sure it still looks realistic

It’s also very important to not overdo this. Here is a before and after, and just by doing this for a few minutes, The eye bag is now less visible and the area underneath the eye is looking much better. And the goal here is to flatten the area under the eye so that the eye bags become less visible. The Curves adjustment layer will also saturate the image, So to fix it you can change the blending mode to “luminosity”, this way it is only affecting the luminosity. Then take a small brush size and start painting on the shadows underneath the eye to remove it

So let’s take the brush tool, You want to make sure the opacity and the flow are low, So I’m going to choose 30% flow and opacity. Then we will use the brush tool to reveal the curves adjustment layer in the shadows. So you’re going to add the curves adjustment layer at the top, and then increase the brightness, and then invert the layer mask by alt/ optn clicking on the thumbnail So there are many ways to do dodging and burning, but let’s keep this tutorial simple and we’re going to be doing this with a curves adjustment layer.

1 – Remove the eye shadows using dodging and burning In this tutorial, you will learn exactly how to fix it, mostly by using dodging and burning (which is the key to how to remove eye bags in Photoshop IMO) and other techniquesĪnd especially for the example of today’s tutorial image, we have this portrait and as you can see, we have some harsh shadows under the eyes, and we’re going to need to remove that using dodging and burning. Eye bags is a common problem that many photographers face and it’s mostly amplified by the lighting setup when the image was taken, if the light is harsh and coming from the top, it will cause harsh shadows under the eyes

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