Hi welcome back to the Photoshop Training Channel.
I'm Jesus Ramirez. In this video,
I'm going to show you how to change eye color in Photoshop. It's actually a very simple
technique and you should be able to follow along, no matter your skill level. Why don't
we jump right into the tutorial? So this is the photo that I'm going to work
with, you can download it from the link in the description if you like. The first thing
that you need to do is make a selection out of the iris. I'll zoom in so that you can
see what I'm doing. I'll select the elliptical marque tool
and I'll click and drag to make a selection.
You can always reposition the selection as you're making it by holding on the space bar
and I'm trying to match it as best as I can. It doesn't need to be perfect,
but as long as you get it close enough, you should be good.
Now I need to remove this top part here and
all I'm going to do is hold Alt and shift on Windows. Option shift on the Mac and notice
how my cursor now has an X to it. If I let go of the shift key and only hold the Alt
key, I'll have a minus icon next to it. And if I hold shift as well, it'll have an
X so that means that I can intersect the selection. So I can click and drag and now I'm going
to release both of those keys. The Alt and shift key, that's the option and shift key
on the Mac and I can now create it and adjust it anyway that I want. I can use the space
bar to move it around and when I release, I'm going to intersect the selection because
I held those two keys when I started creating the selection. See that? It just cuts that
top part so with that selection active, I can just go into the hue and saturation adjustment
layer. And now, I can start making an adjustment
to this eye and we're going to add the second eye now but we're going to go much faster.
Make a selection out of the iris, and intersect it. Now I can fill the layer mask with white.
White is my background color so I can press control backspace, command backspace on the
Mac to fill with my background color. Then press control D, command D to deselect.
I'm going to double click on the hand tool to fit the image to screen. And now you can
use the hue slider in the properties panel to change the eye color and you can use the
saturation slider to increase or decrease the color intensity. You can go back and adjust
the hue if need be. If you want to make the eyes darker, the lightness slider will not
give you the best results unfortunately. What I would recommend to adjust the brightness
of the eyes is to first create a group, then click and drag the mask from the hue and saturation
adjustment layer onto the group and then drag the adjustment layers in there.
And I'm also going to add another adjustment layer, which is going to be a levels adjustment
layer and I'm just gonna use this adjustment layer to adjust the brightness. That way,
you can get much more realistic results. And the reason that you wanna have the layer mask
group and not on the individual layers is so you can have one layer mask control as
many adjustment layers as you like. So if you need to make an adjustment, you only do
it once. Let me show what I mean. I'm gonna zoom in
and you can see that that hue and saturation adjustment layer is affecting the model's
eyelashes and I don't want that so I'm going to select the brush tool and paint with black
over those areas. Let me just reduce my brush size by tapping on the left bracket here on
the keyboard. And I can just paint away the effect from those areas like so. And if I
remove too much of that, I can tap on the X key to make my foreground color white and
I can paint the effect back in in those areas. So you can just keep fine tuning it as need
be. Also, if your eye is too sharp, if the selection you made is too sharp, you can increase
the feather. See how I'm just increasing the feather there so that the adjustment is not
very sharp. If I double click on the hand tool to fit the image to screen, you can see
the result and obviously you can keep fine tuning the effect as much as you want. You
can also click on colorize if you like so you can just colorize the entire layer instead
of just shifting the hue. So what I was doing before is taking the color
that I had in the eye originally and using the hue slider to shift the hue to another
location. What colorize is doing is keeping the original saturation and lightness of the
image and using the hue that I set on this slider. So by dragging on the hue slider,
you can make it whatever color you like, for example blue. And you'll need to use the saturation
slider to control the intensity of the color. And to control the brightness, you can go
into the levels adjustment layer and use this center point to increase or decrease the brightness.
Also, if you're working with a subject with light eyes like she has, you may need to darken
the iris to get the right color that you need. However, you may inadvertently wash out the
details and make the highlights very dull. If this happens to you, this is what you can
do. Make a selection out of her eyes, you can simply hold control on Windows, command
on the Mac and click on the group layer mask thumbnail to load the mask as a selection
and then just duplicate the original eyes. Control J, command J on the Mac to jump them
onto another layer. See how they're just there? And I can just place these eyes on top of
the layer stack then de-saturate the layer by pressing control shift U, that's command
shift U on the Mac. It's the same as going into image, adjustments, and de-saturate and
you can see the keyboard shortcut there. Next, change the blending mode to vivid light
and bring down the opacity accordingly. And by the way, notice one thing. If I bring the
opacity all the way down to zero, you'll notice that the highlight on the pupil is very dull,
but I can start increasing this and then the highlight becomes much brighter so before
and after and that adds more detail to the eye as well. So that- this is a great way
of adding extra detail to the eye. If you lose it by adjusting the brightest point on
the level's adjustment layer. So I case you don't know, basically what this
adjustment is doing right now is telling Photoshop that the brightest pixel is no longer white,
is this shade of gray, which is why the highlight is no longer completely white. And from this
point, all you need to do is fine tune the image to get the results that you want.
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I also have a tutorial on changing hair color. I'll place the link to it below in the descriptions
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