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While I've got this image open, let me take this opportunity to show you a simple procedure for dealing with eyes that I had to learn over the years taking my father's picture. He has a condition with his left eye in which it does not open as wide as his right eye so whenever I take his picture I've got to make this correction in Photoshop. What we're going to do is go over to the layers palette and from our previous lesson we're going to flatten everything we did and then we're going to establish two new copy layers and then we're going to take the top one and we're going to, what we're going to do is choose the lasso tool, make a selection of this eye, flip it, move it over here and replace it. And in doing so, we want to feather the selection because we want that selection to blend into the new area over here. And when we draw the selection, what we want to do is we want to take, start from here and go up and then take it right to the bottom of the eyebrow because that's going to tell us how to line it up when we get it back over on the other side. And then we bring it over and take it right in here, near the tear duct and let go. Put the cursor in the middle of the selection, right click on it, go up here to layer via copy, click on it. Now, the marching ants are gone but the selection has it's own layer at the very top and you can see it there. So we're going to select that top layer, we're going to come over here to edit, transform, flip horizontal, which is going to just reverse the eye, we're going to take it, drag it over here. Then we're going to go to edit, transform, rotate and then just rotate it into position. And then move it. Now, you see what I was talking about? The very top of the selection meets the very bottom of the eyebrow and that allows it to align perfectly when you get it over on the other side. Now, sometimes it might also help if you come over here and reduce the opacity so that you can see below the corners of the eyes and line up the corners of the eyes. Right in there, exactly like that. And then up slightly. And when you think you've got it positioned right, go ahead and hit enter and that has, put the opacity back and then you can use your arrow keys to position it and that's got it. And that is how we do that. And then we merge it, flatten it and my dad has two good eyes. Not bad, huh? The things you can do in Photoshop.