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How to Change Eye Color in Photoshop-fast and easy
Today, I'm going to show you how you could change eye color, using Photoshop. I'm using this royalty-free image, and I'm going to show you how to change these eye colors. I'm going to show you how to change that to blue and also light green. So the first step here is I need to create an adjustment layer. So I'm going to go down here, click adjustment layer, and I want curves, curves, adjustment layer.
So this gives me this curves adjustment layer. I'm just going to drag in the center and make things a little brighter. Once I have this curves adjustment layer, I'm just going to make sure it's highlighted here and now I want to create a selection around these eyes and to do that the best way to do it is with the elliptical marquee tool or M just make sure it's not rectangular as the elliptical more shape of the eyes here and I'm going to just click here and drag and now, if it doesn't line up, you could press space and move it around with this space bar and if you let go of this baseball, you could again resize it here. Now, that's a pretty good selection to select a design. I'm going to make sure I press shift and I drag again, pressing the space bar to move it around.
I let go, a space bar. I'm still reshaping here and that looks pretty good. I'm going to let go. Now I have both of my selections here. So now with the selection, I'm going to make sure this layer is still selected here. I'm going to press command. I, and that's going to invert my layer here so you could see the eyes got a little bit darker and now I'm going to press command D to de-select. When am I sure this is select the one more time I press command. I, again, now that's going to make it real, the easy for us to see our selection. So if I press V the move tool and I move it around, you see, this is the selection that we created. It's really easy to see what you're doing.
So that was really the reason for this curves adjustment layer, just to make this an easy process. So not in the next step is I want to create a blur around this layer because it's a. So a little bit obvious that we have a very clean selection here. So let's go-to filter blur, Gaussian blur. We want to change the radius on this blur.
So if I'm at zero, you could easily see the edges here. But if I go to, let's say a seven, now it's very subtle and it's a lot more natural around the edges. So, some are on the seven. Obviously, I don't want to go really high because now it's really not doing the right thing. So I would say somewhere around a seven or eight looks good to my eye here and then you could obviously adjust this based on your image and, and using your judgment of what starting to look natural with that selection. So I'm gonna press okay there again, if I press V the move tool and I move it around and you see just a subtle blur that you could really see around the edges, it's not a very clean edge.
I'm gonna press command Z just to put that in the center. So now we want to create a folder and really start to organize this before we go to the next step. So I'm just going to create a folder here, group one, and I'm just going to drag my adjustment layer here onto group one. I'm just going to do that by pressing option or Ault and drag right onto that group and letting go. This is actually put this layer mask now on top of the group. So it's applying it to the group. So now the things that I put in this group are going to be affected by this layer mask. So now with this layer mask, if I go and create an adjustment layer, I'll need the human saturation. Now, I'm going to change the hue and the saturation for the eyes.
We're going to add that adjustment layer here and now I could come to this setting here, the hue and the saturation, and playing with these two. To change the eye color, just to show you if I grabbed the hue and move it towards red, it's making the eyes blue. Now I'll bring it back and I'll go all the way to the other end.
You see all the different variations of eye colors you could get just by moving the hue now to make them more natural. I'll just start here to the medium blue here and this is obviously way too saturated. So I'll bring the saturation down just to make it natural and I'll bring the hue up a little bit.
It's starting to get a little purple. So I'll bring it back down, get a little more saturation and you can play with the lightness here too. You see, now I'm going to just make it a little bit darker. That's starting to look a little bit more natural. Now, let me just show you what a green I could look like.
So let me just move this to the green area and there we go. There's a little bit of green and then see if I go way too saturated obviously starts to bleed and looks very fake. But if it's a subtle bit of saturation like that much saturation starting to look a lot more natural and you could always make it darker or lighter.
With the lightness. So between these three different settings, you could really start to play with the eyes and get a really nice natural effect of changing the eye color and that's really the basic overview of changing the eye color. You can just play with these settings. You could always add a new layer and add a little bit more of an idea inside the eyes just to get to different shades.
Sometimes that's a more natural look, but just to change the eyes quickly and simply, this is the fastest way to get there. To watch more, how-to videos go to Howfinity or subscribe to our YouTube page, thanks for watching.