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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




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