Ever seen or taken a picture of your friends or family where their eyes are glowing red?  Do you wonder why this happens?  Ever wish you could see how you look with different colored eyes?  This lesson will explain why red eye occurs and how to correct it using Adobe Photoshop software.  You’ll also learn how to enhance or change eye color.

Make your portraits pop with a dazzling smile and clear seductive eyes. In this lesson the student will learn two methods for whitening teeth and improving eyes using Adobe Photoshop software.

Just for fun:  Have students take the online interactive quiz where students rate video clips of 20 smiles and whether they are "fake" or "real."

Looking forward to a big event and on the day of the event, you wake up with a zit on your chin?  No worries with Photoshop’s Spot Healing Brush—blemishes can be forever laid to rest .  Pictures of your special day or event can be improved from good to gorgeous.

Use Photoshop tools to correct blemishes and smooth wrinkles. Lesson includes a PowerPoint presentation,  Lecture Notes, Photoshop source file, student lab activity worksheet, an assessment activity as well as three videos files, all about 3 to 5 minutes long.  The videos demonstrate the following Photoshop tools:

• Spot Healing Brush
• Healing Brush
• Blur Tool
• Eye Dropper Tool
• Brush Tool

This lesson could easily be combined with sociology, anthropology, health or history lessons and/or how America is obsessed with youth and beauty.  This lesson could also easily tie in to a discussion about self esteem, makeup, skin care, weight issues and the rising number of cosmetic surgical procedures and their associated health costs and risks.  Historically, we could compare some of great beauties of the past such as Helen of Troy and Cleopatra with what is considered beautiful by today’s standards.

This Photoshop lesson covers how to remove hots spots from the use of flash lighting as well as removing shine/sweat from digital photos.

There is an included YouTube instruction video, about 9 minutes long (converted to mp4 format), that demonstrates the spot healing brush tool (also covered in my lesson on removing blemishes and wrinkles) and a student activity worksheet that outlines a different method of hot spot, shine,  sweat removal using the following tools:

• Feathered selections
• Saving selections
• Eyedropper tool
• Paint bucket or paint brush
• Layer opacity

In this lesson the student will learn how to repair scratches in a color photograph using the following tools:

• Healing Brush Tool
• Patch Tool
• Spot Healing Brush
• Clone Stamp Tool
• Blur & Burn Tools
• How to add canvas
• How to use Levels

Lesson is set up for lecture/demonstration, student lab practice and an on-your-own activity.

Level:  Beginning to Intermediate
Materials:  Computer with Photoshop software

The lab activity worksheet takes the student step-by-step through the restoration process and also includes and "On Your Own" damaged black and white photograph where the instructor can check for understanding and mastery of the tools.

NOTES:  This lesson is designed for PC users so appropriate keyboard shortcuts will need to be substituted for MAC users.

The instructor should work through and practice with the step-by-step lab instructions to acquire the knowledge for demonstrating the techniques and being able to assist students during the lab activity.

From retouching to completely reimagining an image, here's a way to help save you a lot of time editing and creating a seamless looking image by using the new Content Aware Fill feature in Photoshop CS5.