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First of all, open up your image of the eye you would like to colorize, this could be a whole face image, or a close up
of the eye - which i will be using for teaching purposes in this tutorial.

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Step 2

Now we want to make a selection of the eye itself. To do this we will just use the
the tool is selecte, drag an elipse around the iris, like so:

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Eliptical Marquee tool(M). When

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Step 3
We need to be careful with the selection of the eye, because in its current state, when we want to colourize, the eyelid will also be coloured. Therefore we need to deselect the area where the eye lid has been selected. To do this we
will simple use the
Polygonal lasso tool(L).
While holding the ALT button on your keyboard, left click around the area of the eye-lid and make the following
selection:

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Step 4
Now onto the fun part, deciding what colour you would like to make your eye! On the bottom of your layers pallete,
clck on the "create new fill or adjustment layer", and click on "color balance".

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A dialog box will apear showing attributes for Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. Play around with these settings to get the
desired colour for your new set of eyes!

For example:

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Step 5
Now that is colouring at its most basic level, if you use some initiative, you might thing... well that doesnt really blend
in well...
So for that reason, im going to ak you to change the blending options of your colour balance layer to "overlay":

Now try playing with the blending options again.

TIP: To easily change the settings without starting again from the start, double click on the thumbnail next to the
Color Balanace layer, the one with the circle and the triangle.

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And thats that!

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, and hopefully you were able to learn something from it, now go ahead and create
those 'perfect' eyes!

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The [PSD of the above tutorial, all completed with green eyes.]
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#29aliGator
2008-11-2817:30:28

#28Tim
2008-11-1913:53:36

I enjoy this tutorial but i just can't get the polygonal lassoo tool part.. :( mind helping?
#27Dewald Hein
2008-11-1715:57:28

Quoting Ben:
This is what i've been doing all the time, x) just didn't have the time to make a tutorial.
this is actually the BEST way to change the eye color of an eye.
GREAT tutorial =D

Hey thanks Ben! Appreciate it. We're in the same boat, tutorials take a big effort to make, glad you liked it =)
#26Ben
2008-11-1715:30:38

This is what i've been doing all the time, x) just didn't have the time to make a tutorial.
this is actually the BEST way to change the eye color of an eye.
GREAT tutorial =D
#25vinay kumar
2008-11-1407:41:41

very nice effect

#24Dewald Hein
2008-11-0700:30:11

Quoting MeganGrace:
This tutorial Is GREATTT!
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You Have Alot of talent to do this, But it really helped me :)

Thanks'x

Thanks Megan =) I'm really glad that it helped you.

#23MeganGrace
2008-11-0623:09:00

This tutorial Is GREATTT!

You Have Alot of talent to do this, But it really helped me :)
Thanks'x
#22pop
2008-10-2205:12:11

:kiss:
#21
2008-10-2000:39:52

Quote:
haha

#20Dewald
2008-10-1601:16:17

Well, im sure that after 29 votes of \'5 out of 5\' it must be a popular technique.
:whistle:
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