Mistaken Marionette Tutorials.
—Changing eye colour.
In my opinion, changing eye colour in photoshop can be done in two ways; a natural way or a more vivid, dramatic way which takes more focus and more attention to detail. Both ways are very simple and I personally think that the more vivd way is more appealing to the eye.
A natural change;
- First off, you will need to select your lasso tool. Then you can begin to trace around one of the irises (coloured part of the eye).
- Proceed to select the other eye by holding the shift key on your keyboard and then trace around the remaining iris carefully. You will need to be meticulous in doing so as we want to change the colour of both irises entirely, not just part of them.
- Usually, if the overall picture is looking very soft, I will sharpen the selected irises (Enhance > Auto sharpen or you can use the actual sharpen tool) and then I adjust Brightness/Contrast of the eyes to the best of my own judgement. This creates a nice effect and alters the appearance of the eyes immensely.
- Now you will need to decide on a colour. I will take blue as an example as that is the colour I used to change Dianna’s eyes (shown above). It is rather difficult to alter the appearance of extremely dark, brown eyes but it can be done if you pay great attention to lighting and intensity of colour.
- Select the paint brush tool and set the mode to ‘color’. You can adjust the opacity as you wish.
- Carefully fill in both irises with the brush tool, you should be able to tell once he change is complete.
—If you aren’t satisfied with your end result, I suggest you consider the following:
A dramatic change;
- You can furthermore change the eyes by using different settings of the paint brush tool.
- I suggest using a light shade of blue (or whatever other colour you wish to use), a medium-toned shade of a colour that is quite similar and then a darker toned colour of this.
- With these varying shades of blue you will be able to create depth within the irises. For the light shade of blue, set the brush’s mode to ‘color’ and then paint the irises in order to increase the overall pop of the eyes.
- Using the medium shade of blue, set the brush’s mode to ‘color dodge’ or ‘linear dodge’ and lower the opacity all the way down to around 20% or lower. By using this setting, we will be able to create an area of light within the iris. Eyes are very reflective, therefore you will always notice a lighter section within the iris. I suggest painting only a small fraction of the iris, preferably wherever the light is hitting it.
- Lastly, you can then use the darker shade of blue and set the brush’s mode to ‘multiply’. Select a smaller brush (a 1px brush, if possible) and then carefully darken the outer circle of the iris (the black ring which separates the iris from the sclera). If this appears too harsh, then you can blur the line by using the blur tool set at a very low capacity.
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![melancholylove:
note: i’ve been getting a lot of requests for a tutorial from my followers, so as a thank you for following me (coincidentally, it will be thanksgiving in 2 days) i spent some time making this coloring tutorial. :] the program i use to edit is photoshop cs5. you shouldn’t run into any problems if you use an earlier version of cs. anyways, this is my first tutorial, so i might not be clear with everything. i’ll try my best to answer questions if you have any. okay, let’s get started.
step 1:
prep your image - cropping, erasing unwanted marks, and such. i always leave resizing for last. so this is my picture.
step 2:
layer -> new adjustment layer -> levelssettings: 0, 1.61, 255output levels: 20, 255
you can also duplicate your image and set it to screen. the outcome will be different, but it’ll lighten the picture just the same. then you can adjust the opacity to your liking.
now your image should look like this.
step 3:
layer -> new fill layer -> solid colorput in 4f746b and set it to exclusion at 35% opacity
now your image should look like this.
step 4:
now the coloring begins :]
layer -> new adjustment layer -> selective color
reds: -100, +8, +100, 0yellows: +100, +8, -100, -27whites: +100, -34, -30, +13neutrals: +17, +15, +33, -13blacks: +100, +58, -31, -6
now your image should look like this.
step 5:
layer -> new adjustment layer -> selective color
blues: +100, +95, -69, +38blacks: 0, 0, 0, +100
now your image should look like this.
step 6:
we’re almost done with selective coloring, so, again…
layer -> new adjustment layer -> selective color
reds: -34, +24, +20, +47yellows: -47, 0, -10, 0cyans: -100, 0, 0, -100neutrals: +30, 0, -9, -3
now your image should look like this.
step 7:
layer -> new adjustment layer -> color balance
shadows/highlights: 0, 0, 0midtones: +11, -5, -11
make sure ‘preserve luminosity’ is checked off’
you won’t see much of a difference with this, but it’ll get rid a little of the weird bluish hue.
now your image should look like this.
step 8:
we’re almost done!
layer -> new fill layer -> solid colorput in 140f03 and set it to exclusion at 100% opacity.
now your image should look like this.
step 9:
lastly, we’re going to sharpen our picture, but this depends on the quality of your picture. so first, we’ll merge all our layers together. you can right click any of the layers and choose ‘merge visible’ or ‘flatten image’. a shortcut is ctrl+shift+e. then we’ll go to filter -> sharpen -> sharpen.
with my image, i only sharpened once, then resized my image to 500px, then sharpened again.
like i said, sharpening depends on the quality of your image. if you sharpen too much, it’ll come out very grainy. you can try avoiding that by duplicating your final image, sharpening the second layer and adjust the opacity.
i always sharpen my pictures, even just a little bit. i think it’s a great tool. but it’s all personal preferences. some people like their image to be a little blurry and some like it grainy.
but i digress… now your final product should look like this.
and now we’re done! if you tried this tutorial, don’t forget to reply with your results, i’d love to see them. :]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcdajn3nC01qbg5hlo1_500.png)
