Making Great Eyeballs

A. Open a New canvas

• 400 wide X 400 High
• 72 pixels per inch
• RGB
• White

B. Eye Texture

1. Insert a New Layer called "layer 1".
    
2. Select your elliptical  marquee tool.
    
3. Draw a circle about 200 pixels in diameter in the center of your canvas by holding down the shift key while drawing.
    
4. Use the fill tool to fill it with a foreground color of one of the following.
   • Green hex #33CC00
   • Blue #3366FF
   • Brown #996600
     
      
5. Add some noise to this selection. Click Filter => Noise => Add Noise.
   • 50%
   • uniform
   • Monochromatic
      
6. Apply a radial blur by clicking Filter=>blur=>radial Blur
   • amount = 100
   • zoom
   • best
      
7. Using the Oval Marquee tool with your shift key down,
   • Select a circle inside of your first selection. This circle will be smaller then the original. It should have the center of the radial blur in the center.
   • Click Select=>inverse.
   • Hit your backspace key.

C. Outside shadow

1. Duplicate this layer.
2. Hold your control key down and click on this new layer called "layer 1 copy" to select the circle.
3. Insert a new layer, called layer 2
   • Click Select=>modify=>border.
   • set border to 4 pixels.
   • hit your D key to set black as your foreground color
   • Fill the selection with black. This will put a black border around your image.
4. Click select=>deselect to deselect your image.
5. Click Filter=>blur => Gaussian blur
   • Set to 4.0
6. Holding your control key down, click on layer 1 to select the circle.
7. Click back on layer 2 where your black border is.
8. Click Select=>inverse
9. Hit your backspace key.
10. Right click on Layer 2 and select duplicate layer. Set the layer 2 copy to opacity 50%.
11. While layer 2 copy is selected, click Layer=>Merge down.

D. Detail

• Click on "Layer1 copy" to make it your active layer.
• Hold down the control key and click on "layer 1 copy"
• Click Filter => sharpen => unsharp mask.
  • amount = 400
  • radius = 2.5
  • threshold = 0
• Set the "layer1 copy" as follows
  • Mode= soft light
  • opacity = 50%

E. Highlight 1

• Insert a New Layer on top of "Layer1copy" called layer 3
• Control click on Layer 1 to select your image.
• Click back on layer 3.
• Click your D key to set your default colors, Click your X key to reverse them and make white your foreground color.
• Using your paint bucket fill tool, fill the circle.
• Click back on your elliptical marquee tool.
• with your arrow keys, nudge your selection five times to the left and 10 times down.
• Click your delete key.
• Set the mode to Dodge
• Click Select => deselect.
• Click Filter=>Blur=>Gaussian Blur
  • Set the blur to 7.

F. Highlight 2

• Click insert new layer called layer 4 right above layer 3.
• Draw a small over with your elliptical marquee at about 7 or 8 o'clock on the eye (opposite of the highlight we did in E), but within the colored area of the eye.
• Fill this area with white using the fill tool.
• Deselect by clicking select=>deselect
• Set layer to color dodge, opacity 50%
• Click Filter=>blur=>Gaussian Blur
  • Set to 7

G. Pupil

• Insert new layer called layer 5, above layer 4.
• using the elliptical  marquee tool with the shift key held down for perfect circle, draw a circle around the center of the colored area for the pupil.
• Hit your D key to put black as your foreground color.
• Use your fill tool to fill ll the area with black.
• Select=>deselect
• Filter=>blur=>Gaussian Blur
  • set to 2
• Hold the control key down and click on layer 5 to select the pupil.
• Click on select=>modify=>border
  • set border to 2
• Insert a new layer, layer 6. make layer 6 your active layer.
• Hit your d key, followed by X to set white as fill color, then fill with white using your fill tool.
• Deselect by clicking select=>deselect.
• Click Filter=>blur=>Gaussian Blur
  • Set blur to 2
• Set layer 6 to color dodge and opacity 60%

H. Reflection on the eye

• Insert a new layer called layer 7.
• Select the elliptical marquee tool and draw a small ellipse in the upper left hand side (10 o'clock) of the pupil on layer 7.
• Fill with white.
• Deselect by clicking select => deselect
• Click filter=>blur=>Gaussian blur.
  • set to 4.0

I. Variations