- [Ross] Hey.
It's Ross Shain and today I'm going to use Boris FX Optics
to convert this eyeball image
into something a bit more sci-fi inspired.
(whoosh)
Optics is a standalone image editing application,
and a plugin for Photoshop and Lightroom
that features 160 filters and thousands of presets.
If you'd like to follow this tutorial,
feel free to go to pexels.com
and you can download the same image that I'm using.
I'll include the details in the video description.
If you're using Photoshop,
we recommend converting your layer to a Smart Object here.
Under filter you can find Boris FX Optics,
and apply the effect.
Optics features a custom interface,
effect categories at the bottom of the screen,
layer based system on the upper left
and parameters and presets in the upper right.
First, I'm gonna start by cropping my image right here.
And then we'll just take that.
And next I want to tint the eyeballs
so I'm gonna to go to the Grads/Tints category
and apply this Sunset tint effect.
And then what we're gonna do is,
we're gonna apply a mask on the Optics layer.
The spot mask is just a simple circle shape
where we can play with the size and the edge softness.
Then I'll add a little bit of blues to the tint here
to get a look that I'm happy with.
And now let's clean up this tint effect
by adding another mask on this layer,
where we can use the path tool to draw a shape.
And then what we're gonna do is,
subtract this from the other shape.
And you can use the Compare tool here above the viewer
to see the before and after.
Now I'd like to play a little bit more
with the color correction.
So I'm gonna add a new layer effect.
And then we'll go to the color tab
and apply the color correction effect.
And I'll adjust the gamma in the contrast a bit
to boost the levels up a little bit to the way I like it.
And now I can also just duplicate my masks
to isolate the color correction again just to the eyeball.
This is a good base to get started.
Now I'm gonna play a little bit
with some fantasy sci-fi looks by adding another effect.
Optics has some really excellent lighting
and render effects.
So here we're gonna play with the Sapphire lightning effect,
which is called Zap.
I wanna use the S_ZapFrom filter,
which basically uses the luminance of the shot
to create an array of lightning bolt generators.
And it's really easy to play with the amount
of bolts that you have and parameters, such as the width,
the branchiness, all kinds of parameters to really dial
in the kind of lightning generator that you wanna get.
And now we'll go ahead and duplicate the masks
that we've already created.
So we can isolate the lightning just to the eyeball area.
And we can even add a third little mask here
to isolate the center of the pupil.
And here we have our transfer modes.
Let's try and overlay which will integrate
the look much nicer.
And now we can duplicate our lightning effect layer.
And we'll just make sure
that our masks are in the right order.
And now I can go ahead
and just play with the different parameters.
Changing the color, the amounts of bolts
and many of the different parameters.
So we can kind of mix this in
and get a nicer little look on.
One of the nicest things about using Optics
for image editing is everything is really procedural
so you're not rendering until the very end of your process.
So everything is live and you can just really make lots
of creative choices.
And now I'll use the default S_Zap filter
to add some more specific little lightning bolts.
This gives me a lot more control
to play with the exact positioning and really align
these exactly the way I want to on the eyeball.
And again let's just duplicate this effect
and we can reposition and play with the parameters
to quickly just iterate on this lightning bolt look.
And let's again check out our before and after,
we can hit F4 to toggle the full screen.
And to top this off, let's go into the Film Lab category
where we can really start playing with the final look.
Looks effect has tons of great presets.
And you here you can really just find lots of great looks.
Including black and white effects in green.
For example, bleach bypass,
but I'll choose color reversal as my final look
and then mix it down a little bit
in our opacity settings.
And when I'm done, I can go to file,
save setup if I wanna reuse just these effects again
on a different clip or I can actually just save the file
with the setup embedded in the final clip.
That way I can always open it up in Optics if I wanted
to make more changes.
And if you were using the Optics plugin in Photoshop,
all you need to do is hit the done button, and you're going
to have your Optics project back
in Photoshop as your Smart Filter.
And for more tutorials and visual effects training,
visit borisfx.com.