Change Eye Color in Photoshop

Have you ever had a picture and wanted to draw more attention to the eyes? Or possibly been asked to change someone's eye color in Photoshop? Well, this article is going to teach you how.[1]

Steps

  1. Find your subject and load it into Photoshop. This could be a simple copy and paste from your browser or opening the file and editing it there.
  2. Use the circular marquee tool to generally select the iris area. Use Shift + the marquee tool to add another selection without losing the first one.
  3. Press 'q' to enter quick mask mode. This will make anything not selected red. Select a good brush size with color black and leave only the iris and pupil not red.
  4. Press 'q' to exit quick mask mode
  5. Make a new Layer without losing your selection
  6. choose the color of the new eye color as your foreground color.
  7. use the bucket tool to paint the selected area completely in.
  8. With the new layer selected, change the blend mode to 'hue'.
  9. To give an immortal look made popular by the movie The Immortal, make a new layer with the iris and pupil selected(steps 1 - 4) and fill it with white. Then set the blending mode to overlay or color. Whichever you like best. Edit the opacity of the layer if necessary.
  10. To give a possessed look, color the whole iris on the color layer completely black but leave the reflection. Go to the original layer and de-saturate (Ctrl + Shift + U)



Warnings

  • Don't save over the original photo as you may not like the color change forever.
  • If you don't move it to a new layer and don't have them selected you could change the color of the entire photo.

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ A video showing the procedure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNEWG5sPDv4
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