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Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation

In this Photoshop tutorial I will be walking you through the making of an interesting art piece, The
Eye, the Key of the Soul.
In this tutorial we will use the burn tool, dodge tool, brushes, layer modes and more to add an
interesting effect to an otherwise regular stock photo.

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Preface
Before we get started I would like you to know that this tutorial was written by Krinos, and the stock
photo used is by xerolime, you can download it from here.

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Open up the stock photo youve chosen to be working with for this tutorial. Duplicate it once (just in

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case!) Find and get out the Burn Tool, change the range/mode for it to midtones and set the opacity

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Using the burn tool now, pass in turn of the pupil of the eye and in turn of the eye. Now get out the

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Dodge Tool and set the mode to midtones again. Use the dodge tool to lighten up the pupil and also
among where you used the burn tool to darken.
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Again using the dodge tool, make some rays just outside of the iris, and lighten up any other areas
you think may need it.

3.
Now use Lighting Effects (filter > render > lighting effects) to add an interesting lighting effect to the
overall photo, you may want to mess around with the colors for the lighting effects filter. Try not to
over-saturate the photo though on this step, if your lighting effects affect it too much, go to edit > fade
lighting effects and put it at around 50%.

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4.
Now its time to recolor the center of the eye. Do this by making a new layer (layer > new > layer) and
brush a little bit inside of the eye with a soft brush, using the color of your choice (orange). After youve
made your little bit of brushing inside of the eye, change the layer mode to Color and lower the opacity
to around 50-60%.

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5.
Using the dodge and burn tools again, add more light/darkness to the pupil to give it a stronger effect.

6.
To add more feeling to the photo, go to layer > new adjustment layer > gradient map and made a
black & white gradient map. Change the layer mode for this layer to Luminosity and leave the opacity
in tact. Repeat step 4 with the eye color part, you may want to use a lower opacity though, and a
different color for the brush.

7.
A little more dodge & burn tool here, remember to mess with the range and opacities for the brushes
as well, get creative.
I also create another pupil-color layer, brushed inside of it it with a yellow-orange, changed the layer
mode to Linear Dodge and lowered the fill to 10%.

8.
To finish off, apply a Selective Color adjustment layer (layer > new adjustment layer > selection color)
and use the settings that you find look best. Again, in finishing, apply lighting effects again, but this
time lower the opacity afterwards to around 35%.

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Thank you for reading this tutorial, I hope you enjoyed it! Im sorry, but the PSD file was too large to be
downloaded, so you wont be able to download the PSD file from this tutorial.
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22 responses
Jafar said:
MAY 2ND, 2008

Helpfull hand
said:
MAY 2ND, 2008

T9 David said:
MAY 3RD, 2008

Great tut dude.

Update more.

Theres a typo in the title

And further its a really nice effect

Kudos to Krinos for the awesome tutorial. I really enjoy the end result he achieved
(That photo certainly helps, as its a really crisp, vibrant shot). One thing I would
suggest is: rather than using a soft brush (which may be a quick solution) to color the
eye, create a new Color Balance Adjustment layer (with a mask so that it only effects
the eyes), and then adjust the colors through that.
Using this technique instead would allow for easy experimentation with other colors, or
further adjustments later on (so you could get a nice emerald color, a frost look, or a
fiery look as shown in this article).

Dejan
Cancarevic
said:

wow, this is really cool thanks a lot!

MAY 3RD, 2008

BlackShade
said:

Simple but effective, well done!

MAY 9TH, 2008

zeux said:
MAY 10TH, 2008

MAY 12TH, 2008

oo..its like a HULK.. nice..

ming_chet
said:

so nice!!! I LIKE it!

Helpfull hand
said:

After some e-mailing with Eli, there seems to be no typo, i thought it was cause i didnt
knew the word, so i thought eery should have been fiery, but it was a real word

MAY 14TH, 2008

Joe Vains
said:

Excellent Like a Sith Lord in Star Wars !

MAY 19TH, 2008

caTcode said:

its cool! i will create a new gravatar using this tips. thanks for sharing..

MAY 21ST, 2008

MAY 27TH, 2008

Good
and
Thanks

Stremel said:

Excellent tutorial, Krinos.

Syed Zeeshan
Ali said:

JUNE 7TH, 2008

Reem said:
JUNE 8TH, 2008

that was really amazing

I liked your strong sight for these lot of details that u have done
actullay I saved the lesson
^^
Thank U VeeeeeeeeeeeeeeRY MUCH

k-lilovsky
said:

excuse me, but i didnt understood how can i use noise or mess to my image with
using dodge brush??
please tell me more. thanks for tuto.

dont care for my english, i know is too baaaaaad.

JUNE 13TH,
2008

Prabigya said:

Cool Man Thanx

JULY 11TH,
2008

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