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Changing The Eye Color of People in Your Photo

How to apply a different color to people's eyes using Photoshop.

1. Open the photo that has the person's eyes in Photoshop you want to change the color of.

2. Click from the "Standard Mode" into the "Quick Mask Mode".

3. Select black from the "Swatches Palette" and use an appropriate sized brush and paint over the person's eyes in the photo (when you are in Quick Mask Mode, the brush will paint a transparent red). I used a "Hard Round 3 Pixel" brush and just clicked over the eyes where I wanted the highlight. By clicking on the eyes with the "Brush Tool", you will still have some original color come through which makes the color change more realistic. Click on View > Zoom In a few times so you can see the eyes in detail.

4. Click from the "Quick Mask Mode" into the "Standard Mode".

5. Now click on Select > Inverse and you should now have only the eyes selected in your photograph.

6. Click on Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation to make adjustments.

7. Adjust the Hue/Saturation slider to get various colors for the eyes. I set the Hue to [-148] and the Saturation to [+20] for the example below.

8. Your new eye color will appear as in the Angelina Jolie photograph below.

Last update: 2007-08-04 00:40
Author: Gary Logsdon
Revision: 1.0

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