Basic Photoshop Tutorial

Okay all you photoshop beginners out there . . . I'll be slowly adding basic body enhancement tutorials over the coming months. They'll go from very basic to the more complex complete body make-over type tutorial. The first tutorial I'll be posting tonight will be a very basic beginner level tutorial showing you how to change the eye color of a person very quickly.

Starting Image

Alright . . . let's get started. First thing . . . get the image that you're going to be using in the tutorial . . . any good image with the eyes showing clearly will do. Now open up Photoshop, and create a new layer called "eyes". The new layer is so we won't edit the original image . . . and only overlay onto it. Anyway . . . zoom in on the eyes and lets get this eye changing show on the road.

- Example -

Alright . . . yours should look something like mine at this point . . . opened and zoomed in on one of the eyes with a new layer created that you'll be working on. (Note: I usually have another "window opened so I can see how my changes are affecting my work. Do this by clicking "Window > Arrange > New Window" in photoshop).

Alright . . . now select around the one eye with the Elliptical Marquee Tool making sure to get the entire iris when you do so . . . don't worry about it being neat at this point . . . you'll be correcting it later. Now scroll over to the other eye and hold shift while you select the other eye's iris. At this point both eyes should be selected and we should be ready to move onto the next step.

- At this point -

Now that you have both the eyes selected . . . find a color that you would like the person to have. I used a light green color because it would highlight the girl's natural skin color and hair color. Anyway . . . now that you have the color you want . . . select the paint bucket and fill in the eyes. It should look something like the image below at this point.

- Eyes Filled In -

Now that you have the eyes filled in . . . add a layer mask. This is where you'll be doing the bulk of the little amount of work that goes into this basic but nice effect. Lower the opacity down to around 15 or less and select a small brush and make sure black is the foreground color. Now make sure the layer-mask is selected and slowly work around the eyes removing the excess green that is around the iris . . . and make sure to remove the green covering the pupil. Keep doing this until you have something that looks like the image below.

- Coming Together -

Alright . . . at this point your picture should be mostly complete . . . all that is left to do really is touch up the edges around the eye to make sure they look as real as possible . . . you can play with the blending mode to see if this helps your image out any. Also you can quickly change the color by going to (Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation) and play around with settings. Here's my completed image.

- Subtle is Best -

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