lesson no.3 - EYE COLOURING - [PIDEAUX]

[` everly !]

lesson: changing eye colour

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so, i understand that you've been using the brush tool and playing with the layer types. i highly recommend that from now on, you use the method i'm going to show you, as by using this method, you can change eye colours to virtually any other colour and still have it look natural and not brushed on.

first, select the Polygonal Lasso Tool [by clicking and holding down on the 'Lasso Tool' icon]. at this point, feel free to zoom in as much as you want. then, choose a starting point on the outside of the eye. after you've clicked somewhere on the outside of the eye, continue clicking on points around the eye until you've completely encircled it. once you've joined all your lasso points, the eye should be selected with the moving dashed line. it should look something like this. next, either hit Ctrl+U or go Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. this window should pop up. you should familiarize yourself with the following terms before using these options:
hue: the colour/shade
saturation: the prominence/solidity/strength of the hue

so, to change the eye colour, just play around with the three sliders. you should also notice that on the bottom right area of the window, there are two boxes titled 'Colorize' and 'Preview'. now, the 'Preview' box should always be check marked, so that you can see the results of your modifications without having to click 'OK'. what 'Colorize' does is changes the hue of the selected section of the image to 'normal, web colours.' so if the eye is a mixture of yellows, greens and whites, then when you're changing the hue, it's going to look weird because the greens will turn bluish while the yellows turn greenish, or whatever. by 'Colorizing' the eye, the eye becomes one colour and looks better when you change the hue. however, it's completely up to you as to whether or not you do it.
once you've achieved a colour you're complacent with, hit 'OK', and your eye colour has now been changed !

okay, so here are a few sample images that i'd like you to practice on.

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cat photo I - make the eyes red

cat photo II - make the eyes blue

cat photo III - make the eyes green

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again, i'm sorry that i don't have any dog photos for you to work with, since i know that's what you're used to
:/
anywho, eyes are eyes, and i find that cat's eyes provide more flexibility.
(;

so, finish these and we'll go from there- i may have a few other things i want to go over, after all.
(:

[[Pideaux]]

So simple and it worked wonderfully. I also tried it on a dog although it seems that the darker the eye colour, the more you have to play with it to get it to look decent. X3

Green Eyes

Blue Eyes
I might have gone out of the eye a little too far on this one, but I understand my mistake there. X3

Red Eyes

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[` everly !]

great job !
those look perfect, and yes, you did go a smidge too far on the second one, but at least you understand the concept.
(:

so i may or may not have a few other things to show you. i'll try my best to deal with that this weekend since my new semester started yesterday and there's a lot of work :/
but also feel free to ask about anything else you want to learn.
(:

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