Enhancing Iris Color

**Man1c M0g** · 11-12-2005

This is a thread to discuss the Enhancing Iris Color tutorial. Please keep all posts on-topic, don't spam, and read the entire thread BEFORE you post - any issues you have could be answered deeper within the thread.

Andantonius · 11-22-2005

I re-did mine and it looks a little better.

**Man1c M0g** · 11-22-2005

The source image is very very important... as is a careful and detailed selection around the eye. The 'lightning-look' around the eye was present in my original image.... although I can't imagine it would be too hard to add it in as a separate layer.

PS. Your image looks good, but the edges around the iris are too hard. Try using a softer brush when using the quick mask around the edges - it will make for a much cleaner effect.

11-25-2005

I tried this out and it worked alright (my eye didn't have as much detail as yours), but then I tried again today and I seem to have changed some settings on my brush so it creates a fuzzy selection rather than a sharp one. See attachment for details.

Any ideas what I've done, so far as I can tell I didn't change any settings to the brush itself.

**Man1c M0g** · 11-26-2005

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Originally Posted by Deathby

I tried this out and it worked alright (my eye didn't have as much detail as yours), but then I tried again today and I seem to have changed some settings on my brush so it creates a fuzzy selection rather than a sharp one. See attachment for details.

Any ideas what I've done, so far as I can tell I didn't change any settings to the brush itself.

Ahhhh! Well, if you take a look at the quick mask you will notice that the overflowing area is a slightly different shade of red. This indicates that your selection was perhaps a tad TOO fuzzy, as the quick mask is essentially an alpha-transparency mask of the area. Try increasing the opacity of your brush to 100% and starting again from scratch.

12-16-2005

I made a simple siggy with this tutorial. Check out the attachment

Sirit · 01-01-2006

Here is my attempt at this:

01-30-2006

Nice tutorial!!!!!! I love it! Just one thing though for the immortal effect the layer filld with white you say to change its blending mode to linear dodge? I think u mean overlay.

showyair23 · 01-31-2006

U´re good, I never have this idea, and is great

**Man1c M0g** · 01-31-2006

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Originally Posted by dandaman2082

Nice tutorial!!!!!! I love it! Just one thing though for the immortal effect the layer filld with white you say to change its blending mode to linear dodge? I think u mean overlay.

LOL! Yup, I *DID* mean Overlay! Many thanks for the head-up - I've now corrected the mistake in the tutorial.

08-29-2006

after creating new layer, you say pick color of eyes, how do you do that? I understand everything else.

Sorry new to Photoshop

Thanks
Moonsafe

**Man1c M0g** · 08-29-2006

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Originally Posted by moonsafe

after creating new layer, you say pick color of eyes, how do you do that? I understand everything else.

Sorry new to Photoshop

Thanks
Moonsafe

Just pick a color in the foreground color palette! =]

08-29-2006

thanks for quick responce. I tried that and my eyes turned green, even though i picked blue as the color. They also dont look like eyes, it looks like two cut out circles.

What i'm doing wrong

**Man1c M0g** · 08-31-2006

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Originally Posted by moonsafe

thanks for quick responce. I tried that and my eyes turned green, even though i picked blue as the color. They also dont look like eyes, it looks like two cut out circles.

What i'm doing wrong

Occasionally a bit of color blending happens, which may alter your color. Try desaturating (i.e. making greyscale) the area under your eye color layer - this wll solve that problem. As for the circles - you need to use a soft brush when quickmasking and ensure that you blend in the edges to the contour of the eye underneath. If you use a hard-edged brush and/or rush it, it'll look totally artificial.

09-03-2006

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Originally Posted by Man1c M0g

Occasionally a bit of color blending happens, which may alter your color. Try desaturating (i.e. making greyscale) the area under your eye color layer - this wll solve that problem. As for the circles - you need to use a soft brush when quickmasking and ensure that you blend in the edges to the contour of the eye underneath. If you use a hard-edged brush and/or rush it, it'll look totally artificial.

Thank you, that worked ! Just need to keep using it, to get better