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Eye Coloring Tutorial




Done in PS 7…not sure if it’d translate easily or not. Very image heavy so dial up users, beware.





People are always asking me how I do the eye coloring on my graphics so I decided to write up a little tutorial on it. This won’t work on every eye. A lot of it depends on the lighting, coloring of the picture you’re using. But with a lot of playing around, you’re sure to find something you like. And I'm sure that there are other ways...better ways of doing this, but this is how I do it :)


So I open up the picture that I want to use. In this example I’m using Chris Jericho’s beautiful eyes.



The first thing I do is sharpen it once FILTER>>SHARPEN>>SHARPEN

Then I zoom way in on the eyes. I select my Dodge Tool

Brush size 10 round default(and that’ll vary depending on how much you zoom in and how big your picture is, but for this one I’m using a 10)
Range: Midtones
Exposure: 80%

And I just kind of sparingly use it on the eye's iris area



It’s subtle, but you can see what I’ve done. You don’t want to use too much or it’ll make it look unnatural

Now make a new layer and zoom in again if you aren’t still. Pick the color that you’d like to use. Select your brush tool and again with a round default size 10, color in the iris area of the eye.



Here I used #213794. Then set the blend mode to Overlay



Ohhhh, pretty!!!

Here’s using #1B7B86



And #273158





With #475B8B



And finally with #266123




Its really just a matter of playing around with the colors and finding something that looks nice. I try to keep it relatively natural looking with mine. Sometimes the Color Burn blend mode will give some nice results, but 99% of the time I use Overlay.

Here are a few more examples with a different picture

The original picture:



With #505089



Done with #AEAEEA



And with #206927



And finally with #93983C



Here are a couple more that I did a while back. Unfortunately I don't have the .psd saved anymore to tell what colors I used.