How to change eye color in Photoshop
After changing hair color last week, I thought it was time for a more radical physical change: something you couldn’t easily change in real life (unless you use colored contacts) and that really gave a new twist to anyone’s appearance. In other words, I’m going to show you how to change eye color in Photoshop. Want to see how would you look like with Paul Newman’s or Angelina Jolie’s eyes? Follow this easy tutorial and see for yourself.
1. The first step is obviously opening the image you want to work with.
2. Now go into Quick Mask Mode by clicking on the marked button in the screenshot, grab the Paintbrush tool and start painting the areas you want to colorize (i.e., the eyes). Zoom in the picture to work more comfortably, and change the brush size to reach smaller dots.
3. When you’re finished coloring the eyes, switch back to Normal Mode and you’ll see the whole photo is selected. Invert the selection in the Select > Inverse menu and then only the eye area that you painted will be selected.
4. Now create a hue adjustment layer (either go to Layer > New adjustment layer > Hue/Saturation or click on the yingyang-style button in the Layers palette and select Hue/Saturation). Tick the “Colorize” option and start playing with sliders until you obtain the perfect eye color.
You can try to make it look as real as possible, or forget about realism and select the weirdest color possible. Who hasn’t dreamed of having purple eyes?
Posted at 7:05 am on Apr 19th
Hah! Purple is a nice eye color!
Posted at 8:25 am on Sep 17th
Hi Dear..
I am having some problem. as soon as i invert the image to the get the selected area of image. after that if i go to layer menu to select adjustment layer, but there the adjustment layer is disabled. What i do? Please Help me
regards
Waqas
Posted at 9:01 am on Sep 17th
Hi Waqas,
I’m not sure how I can help. I’ve followed my own tutorial and the adjustment layer menu is active. Just make sure you have the right layer selected (in case you have more than one) and that the selected layer is not blocked, though it should work anyway even if it’s blocked.
Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
Cheers,
Elena
Posted at 2:28 pm on Dec 30th
i hate u
Posted at 2:38 am on Jan 23rd
I am so trying that. Let’s see how I look with blue eyes…
Posted at 8:18 pm on Mar 26th
wow, thanks this helped alot ^^. props up
Posted at 11:14 pm on Jun 12th
Wow. I used to have purple eyes while i was a baby to bad they turned brown. And thanks to you i can now see how i would look like if i still had purple eyes
Posted at 1:20 am on Aug 17th
thats rele clever
i love the purple x
Posted at 3:03 am on Aug 24th
thats hot ima do and yall goin see me wit some orange eyes but rite na my eyes are hazel becase im black and white lolz
Posted at 11:25 am on Sep 2nd
WoW.very thanks alot.