Dealing with Pesky Lens Glare on Eye-Glasses

hey everybody this is Gary Hughes and I want to make a quick tutorial on a question that I get asked all the time: How do you deal with the glare on glasses? Now if you're shooting in your studio and you have complete control over all lights and reflectors and everything it's not that difficult to create an image where glasses won't have a glare. now most glasses nowadays tend to have a anti-glare film over them which mostly solves the problem for you but, if you want to figure out how to do that live in the studio, you just go ahead and Google angle of incidence and reflection and you will find plenty of tutorials on how to create light using indirect lighting that will light your subject without causing glare in the lenses. Now, if you're in a situation like I'm often in like a high volume you can't change the lighting setup for every single person that sits down. I shoot sometimes 100, 200, 300 people over the course of a couple of days, and if you change the lighting setup for each and every person, then you're going to spending a lot of time moving lights up and down and not a lot of time taking pictures so what I will typically do is most of the time it isn't a problem usually about one in a hundred people will have glasses that have glare that need to be fixed in my experience now that may be different for everybody else but that's just for me now what I normally do is I have them sit down and then I take the picture and once I get the shot that I want and this is just a random head shot from a recent job from last year and I will take their picture with the glasses to get the lighting and everything that I want and then I will ask them to take their glasses off and I will take a picture of them without their glasses just like this and so what I'll typically do is do that with every single person that has glare in their glasses I do a little review in the LCD screen and then I will take this and I will use the eyes from this image and I will put them over top of the image with the glasses and that will make my finished image and so what I'm just going to do it right here and show you how I do it there's no extra oven baking the finished meal this is showing you exactly how I do it so one of the things that I do is I go right over to the top left and I select the marquee tool the rectangular marquee tool you can also just hit M on your keyboard and that will do it and then I'll usually feather it at about 10 takes then I will select the whole area kind of of the eyes just like this now once you have that you want to take this and put it onto a new layer now you can do that by hitting command or control J depending on whether your Mac or PC and now you can see over here that you've got just this layer with the eyes now what I'll do is I'll grab that layer and I will take it over to the image with the glasses that I want and I'll drop it right in there I'll drop it right in there that's not going to get there it is okay so as long as they use the same focal length and everything it should be pretty close but sometimes you need to do a little bit of resizing it's not exactly a perfect process but the results turn out pretty darn good so what I'm going to do is try and line up those pupils kind of where I see that they look pretty good eye size is the same and then what you do is reduce the opacity of that layer with the eyes on it we're going to zoom in oh that looks weird Wow okay okay you want to prove those eyes up over the other eyes just like this line up those pupils and those irises especially can looks like we got a little bit of differentiation in the size so I'm just going to move those around a little bit just you wanted to match as close as you possibly can now again it's not going to be exactly perfect but it will be close enough to where you really won't be able to tell much okay so now what I'll do is I'll see what that looks like looks pretty close and we can do a little fine-tuning after and you do too might come up this way a little and that looks pretty darn close a lot closest damn it is - swearing all right there you go now what you do is you're going to put this on its own layer just like so or not a film leather so you're going to add a layer mask and then when you have a layer mask and it's white that's called a reveal layer and so what that's going to do is when it's white it's going to show you everything's in that layer and you can paint through it to make it disappear for this I like to do the exact opposite so if you have that layer mask selected and hit command or control I it's going to invert that into a hide all layer which are going to paint through in order to bring the eyes back in so we're going to zoom in I'm going to grab a regular paintbrush which you can get over here and the tools palette or just hit B on your keyboard to select a brush make sure that's a nice soft brush out of here you know something one of these guys is fine and make sure that your paint color your foreground color is set to white because when you have black at you paint white it will reveal will reveal what's behind that layer then you're going to just paint those make sure it's 100% opacity you can do that by hitting zero or you can use this little scrub scroll bar here and you just paint those eyes right inside the lenses of the glasses and it's okay you don't have to be perfect the great thing about working with layers under the layer mask is that you can go back and fix it if you messed it up all right so I got a little bit over onto the frames here here now one of the other cool tricks that you can do while you're doing this is to make sure that you still want it to look like they're wearing glasses so I will remind you that when you do have glasses those descriptions often will create a refraction so where the eyes will either be slightly larger or slightly smaller maybe things won't line up or maybe in the original image you'll get the side of the face right here it's going to look a little bit different because glasses tend to magnify or reduce the size of whatever's behind them depending on the prescription so the overall size is going to be a little bit different in most cases especially if you have an extremely strong prescription but this will give a real good natural look for those eyes see boom and we've got a little bit of the diffraction effect and eyes or maybe we can adjust them into a slightly different place just to get them to look a little more like the original boom pretty solid now what I'll typically do is I'll reduce that maybe by about 10% or a little bit more just to get a little bit of fuzziness in there so it looks like they're still behind a piece of glass instead of all the way like that that looks like they're a hipster with no lenses and the Francis glasses so neckties about 90% so just get a little bit of fuzziness so it still looks like it's behind glass then you go ahead and flatten a layer and you're good to go and that is how I solved the reflection problem and once you do that a couple of times it takes a little longer as I'm explaining it to you but I can do that at about maybe one minute maybe a minute and 30 seconds and so you know it is an easy fix and it's something that you can do every single day and your studio is pretty much any version of Photoshop there's no plugins no nothing just nice and easy just do make sure that when you take that image that clean plate image of just no glasses make sure that it's as close to the original as you can get so that you get the same sort of angle of the face onto the camera so it doesn't end up looking strange but that's it thanks for watching I appreciate you and I'll see you next

Channel: Hughes Fioretti Photography

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Keywords: photoshop, retouching, lenses, glasses, photography

Id: 9Po1YZ08PY0

Length: 7min 26sec (446 seconds)

Published: Tue May 30 2017