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For our first lesson in photo retouching,

we're going to focus on eyes.

I'll show you how you can quickly and easily

changed someone's eye color in a realistic way.

You can use this same technique to not only drastically changed the eye color,

but also to enhance it to a much more vibrant version of the original whew.

This especially comes in handy when a photo was

shot in low light and the eye color was lost.

You can use these techniques to bring that color

back to a more accurate representation of reality.

Or you can go absolutely wild and explore fantastical views.

This is faster and easier than colored contact lenses.

Lets go ahead and get started.

We've got Photoshop open and for the first file that

we're going to be working with, it's called Eye.jpg.

You'll find it in the class assets folder.

Go ahead and double-click it to open it in Photoshop,

or click and drag it into your icon.

I'm going to press F to get into

this full screen mode so that we have no distractions behind us.

If we zoom in a little bit,

you'll see this is a really nice high rise lot of clarity photo and

what we want to be doing here is changing her eye color from blue to indigo.

Let's take a look at our file real quick.

It is a flattened JPEG.

If you look over here in the layers panel,

you'll see there's only one layer and it's called background.

We're going to be adding another layer to this and the first step for doing that

is by going over here to my toolbar and clicking the Ellipse tool,

which is you, if you click and hold that,

you'll have all these different shape options.

I want to go with a circle,

so that's the ellipse and next step,

I want to change the color into indigo.

I'll go up here to fill and then go over here to my color picker and top that once.

Now, with my color picker option open,

I'm just going to click anywhere here on this color bar.

Find something that feels like a deeper indigo,

dragging my cursor over,

let's get something really saturated.

Perfects. I'll press OK to set that color.

Now, I'm going to click and drag to create a circle over

her iris and a hold down Shift to make sure that it's a perfect circle.

Dragging that out so it feels pretty good and release, cool.

I'm going to zoom in a little bit.

I'll press Z to get my zoom tool and click and drag this in words.

So I get a really nice close up here and now going back to my move tool, which is V,

I'm just going to clicking around and adjust

it so it feels like it's right on top of that iris.

I need to make it a little bit bigger to fill this sliver over here.

I'm going to use the transform tool for that.

So Command T brings up transform,

and now I can just click and pull it out a little bit more to

fully cover that iris and then press Enter to set the transformation.

All right, cool. We have that purple circle that's fully covered the iris of our eye,

but obviously it's just looks like a purple shape on top of her eyeball.

What we want to do is really integrated in.

The first step for doing that is going to be removing

this section up top where her eyelid is in the way and then a little bit at the bottom.

To do that, I'm going to make sure that

my ellipse layer is selected and then I'm going to come down

here to the bottom of the Layers panel and select the Add Layer Mask option.

I prefer using layer masks instead of erasing and I'll show you why.

I've got my Layer Mask in place.

I want to make sure that the Layer Mask icon is selected over here on the right,

not to the image itself.

Click on the Layer Mask and pressing Z on my keyboard.

I'm just going to zoom in a little bit more so we get

nice and close and close that properties window.

Before I start erasing this circle,

what I want to do is just make sure that the black

is my default color and then the white is the dark rounds.

This will switched the other way around,

just make sure to click those arrows and switch it

so that the foreground color is the black.

Now, I'm going to select my Brush Tool.

I'll get that by pressing B on my keyboard and I'm going to go up here to

my toolbar and make it a lot smaller and a little bit softer.

Maybe around 18 percent, cool.

One trick I like to use here is if you want to see how big your brushes in real time,

you can use your open and closed parentheses keys on your keyboard.

On the right parenthesis,

I'm going to precedent few times and it's going to make my brush a lot bigger

and on the left parentheses I'll press it a few times and it makes your brush smaller.

I want to make this brush a little bit bigger.

So I'll use right parentheses a few times.

Now I'm just going to click.

It's a nice really soft brush and

erase where her eyeball is and I'll do the same thing on the bottom.

This is exactly why I like using masks instead of just flat out erasing,

because as you can see here,

I erased a little bit too much and I can just easily painted that back in.

To paint this area back in a little bit,

I'm going to switch my foreground and background color so that

white is in the foregrounds and then using my brush,

I'm going to make it a little bit smaller by pressing the left parentheses key.

I'm just going to click and paint that back in a little bit more.

Now I'll do the same thing on the bottom.

Awesome. Let me zoom out so you can see the full effects.

Awesome. Now we have this purple shape that is completely covered

her iris and it's nice and hidden behind those eyelids.

Now it's time to make it look a little bit more

realistic and less like a purple blobby shape.

There's a few steps to get there.

First things first, I've got this Layer selected,

but I'm going to do is just add another layer

above it by clicking the Add new layer down here at

the bottom rights and holding my Shift key

down with the layer one selected and the ellipse layer.

I'm going to select both of them and then do

Command E on my keyboard that merges the layers together.

The reason I did that is because I just want a flattened shape here.

I don't really want to have to deal with the Layer Mask and the smart object behind it.

So now it's just a flattened layer and I'm

going to zoom in again so we can get some nice details.

Let me move this to the side so you can see,

everything over here is pretty blurred.

It's not a very sharp line.

I want to do the same thing with this purple color.

Command Z to undo what I just did and move that

back into place and I'm going to go to Filter,

Blur, Gaussian Blur and here I've got

that preview box selected so that I can see how blurry I'm making the edge of this shape.

I want to match the blurriness of the iris behind it,

4.4, it feels pretty good.

I'll press OK and now it's time for the fun part.

I'm going to zoom out again.

Command 0 fits it to screen and this is the last step.

It's adjusting the transparency.

Click here where it says normal and that's a normal blending mode.

I use two different types of transparency modes for changing eye color.

I'll show you the two that I use and what they both look like.

The one I used most often is soft light.

I'm going to go down here and select soft lights. There you go.

Now you can really see those textures coming in through that eyeball.

It's nice and soft on the edges.

It feels really natural.

Let me zoom back out so you can see the full effects.

If I click the eyeball next to that layer,

you can see what it looks like originally

and then with that indigo color over her eyeball.

I mentioned that I use to transparency effects.

Soft light is my favorite for changing eye colors,

but every once in a while,

Hue turns out looking really nice as well.

This is what Hue looks like on there.

Let me zoom in so you can see the effect.

I'll turn the eyeball on and off.

There it is off and on.

You can see on the original,

there's a lot of different variation in color within this eyeball.

It's primarily blue.

You've got some denim navy on the edges and

then a little bit of brown over here close to our pupil.

But when you use Hue as a transparency effect,

it removes all color variations.

Everything you see on this eyeball is a variation of that shade of indigo,

but it ranges in value,

so it gets really dark,

almost black and then it gets white.

This area that used to be brown has now been transformed into gray.

I'll zoom out so you can see the full effects.

Then one more time I'm just going to turn soft light

on so we can see the full difference.

Soft lights, Hue.

I'm going to put it back on soft lights and show you one more thing.

Since we've done all of the setup of putting this digital contact lens over her eyeball.

It's actually really easy at this point to

change the color again and I'll show you how to do that.

Make sure you're layer is selected and then go to your Hue and Saturation.

You can get there by going to image adjustments,

Hue and Saturation or you can do the key commands that I always use,

which is command Hue both get you to the same place.

Now, you can click the scrubber on that Hue spectrum

and drag it around to see what different colors look like.

Let's see what it looks like on the other side.

You can drag it over and it becomes that pink,

almost magenta to a crimson red.

It's orangey brown and then back to the green.

I'm going to put it back at 0.

Press OK, and that's our final.

That is how you change the eyeball color.

To save it, I'm going to go to File,

Save As, and change that filename to eyes, recolored.

Make sure it is a Photoshop file and press save.

Maximized capacity, sounds good and

the reason I saved it as a Photoshop file is so that when I reopen it,

I'll have both layers here and it'll be easy to make adjustments.

If I want to go in later and change your eye to a bright green,

I can do that pretty easily because they've already

got everything set up with these different layers.

But I'm also going to save it as a flattened JPEG.

I'm just going to select the format,

go to JPEG and press Save.

I always save it at 12 quality with maximum and press OK.

The reason I also save it as a flattened JPEG is it's a much smaller file size.

It's easy to preview really quickly if I'm just going through

my files and JPEGS are exactly what I upload to social media,

Instagram, Facebook, to my website.

They're easy to attach in e-mails.

It's just a very versatile file type.

We are done with the eyeball.

Let's go ahead and move on to our next retouching projects.