Help with catchlight..Portrait help please

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMuR-1E4S0

I am a big fan of the 'Flare_brushes_by_Karl_S2' brush set.  One of my most used custom brush sets.

OK, it's not the "type" you're looking for. What type ARE you looking for? A screen shot might help.

Cute kid.  :+)

Make a selection (adjust selection feathering to your liking),

on its own layer fill with white,

adjust opacity to your liking.

If the "solid" white isn't what you want, use a white-to-clear gradient when filling the selection instead of using the paintbrush.

This one is interesting.  Very clear and showing the spherical and perspective distortion of the window that created it.

The above could be used as an efective learning aid for faking your own catchlights.

It's interesting that if you search Google Images for 'eye' just about every single hit has a catchlight of some sort.  Very easy to fake, of course, with Free Transform > Distort and Fliter > Distort > Spherize.

That kid looks like he has bits of potato chip stuck in his eyes! From a distance it's fine, but up close...

The catch light should reflect the fact that the eyeball is spherical, it should also follow the lighting on the face. Remember it’s a reflection of what's in front of the kid. Attached is part of an (unfinished) image I painted in PS. The catchlight here shows shadows from the eyelashes and is stronger in the right hand eye

It depends entirely on the light at the time. sometimes the catchlight is simply a small white dot, or two, (preferably with a very slight flare) but seldom the large white blob the baby above has. A catchlight like this can be drawn or enhanced fairly easily with the brush tool, as long as its not overly bright. Hope this helps.

Didn’t see the above post when I wrote this, but that's a great example. Its not actually a window reflected in her eye, it’s a soft box light with bars to make it look like a window, as the poster says, its not hard to make with the distort tools in photoshop.

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