Adobe Photoshop CS4 Tutorials - Creating Awesome Eyes

In this tutorial we are going to show you the method of changing eye colour and how to make them really stand out. You’ll see in this photo the eyes are a little bit dull, not too colourful and not too saturated, We’ll be dealing with all these issues in this tutorial.

This method works well with blue and brown eyes. So let’s begin, the first thing you need to do is make the selection of the eye, it doesn’t really matter how you do this, but We’ll be using the pen tool, make sure paths is turned off.

When you are dealing with anything in the eye area you need to have a soft selection, The feather radius for this was 3pixels.

Once you have your selection made you now need to go into your curves Dialog Box > Image > Adjustments > Curves. Now you’ll see the curves dialog box pop up. The first thing you’re looking to do here is to brighten the selection. So just drag the line up a bit in RGB mode, once you’re happy then just click ok, then you need to drag it up a little again on the blue channel and press ok again.

To see the changes make sure you see the before and after shots in your palette. To get the best result you need to use the “Burn and Dodge Tool” this will give depth. Set your brush around 20pixels and set the hardness around the mid point, also set the range to “Highlights” and “Range” to low.

Next, you need to drag the brush right outside the pupil area and you will notice it get a little brighter, repeat this again until you’re happy.

Now you need to grab your “Burn Tool” and very simply drag on the outline, this will give it depth, again repeat this until you’re happy.

You have two options here, you can leave it or you can create a new pupil. We are going to show you how to create a new pupil. The first thing you need to do is create a new layer. Select the “Elliptical Tool” and hold down shift and drag out over the pupil so you have the same size, also make sure it’s feather, Select > Refine Edge > Modify > Feather, set the Radius to 5pixels.

Once you have done this make sure the background colour is set to Black, then just delete. This will give you a new pupil.

You’ll notice you’re now missing the highlight, to add this in you need to create a new layer and make sure your foreground colour is set to white. Now grab your “Brush Tool” set the mode to > Normal, then just click.

Now you have a new eye. Below you’ll see the before and after shots. You’ll notice the new eye is a lot brighter and more defined. This method can be used on any colour you like!

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