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Description
There are a lot of things you can do with Photoshop but recently one of the most popular things everyone is doing is manipulating the eye.

The way I have worked with eyes in the past has been sort of experimental to see what worked …and then what didn’t, and to be truthful there are a lot of things that won’t work but when you fool around with something it comes out looking decent.

I’m not going to lie and say that I’m an expert on this particular effect but here I’ll teach you how I work with eyes in the simplest way possible.

Part 1 can be found here [link]
Part 2 Getting an Effect

This part will deal in getting that “demon” or “cat” look. In laymen’s terms this is to help you manipulate the pupil of the eye your working on.

First Things First
Working With Stock Model and Their Eyes
There will be models that have great eyes with wonderful detail and then you’ll find ones whose overall body is high pixel quality but his or her eyes are not so hot.
It’s a crapshoot as it all comes down to the camera the stock artist used and the lighting for the quality of the picture.
Choosing Your Image
Plain and simple, the better qualities you work with the better you manips come out to be.

Your First Step
Based on the first tutorial you know that you’ll want to zoom in on the eye close enough to see the details on the iris.

What Now?
In this tutorial we will be using some brushes that I have found helpful in my eye manipulations. You can download them here ~> Eye Effects Brushes

Please know that this tutorial with all the directions and step by step images can be downloaded

Getting the Effect

Now that you have the brushes select one that you would like to use.

NOTE: For me personally I have found that this type of brush works best when used with the simplest brush with less white of the eye cover on the brush.
Why?
Because the part of the brush that is supposed to be the white of the eye picks up the same color as what you are trying to make the pupil look like.
Simply said it looks weird and unnatural but that might be what you’re looking for.

First Step in Getting the Effect
Make a sure that the bush is proportional to the eye, meaning that the brush does not go over the border of the iris. Make a selection with the brush so that the marquee lights up on the selection.
NOTE: The more you click on a brush the more it will select to its mold. This is making a brush select to its capacity.

Second Step in Getting the Effect
Pupils are black by nature so it’s best to make this new pupil black as well.

NOTE: I use the eyedropper tool to get the exact color of the pupil myself as what with film impurities and pixel distortion the pupil may not be true black but an off black and you want this new pupil to look natural. But you can simply choose black from your color chooser and then that should work fine.

Third Step in Getting the Effect
Go up and choose New Fill Layer then Solid Color and click OK to the message that comes up. All it asks is if you want it to just be plainly filled in and you do it’s fine.
Your eye should look like the eye I have there with the filled in brush.

NOTE: The round pupil will still be present and if you want that effect that’s up to you. You should know that when you fill in a brush that it can be moved and resized like an object. This means you can make this pupil larger or smaller, but I have mine sized to the size I need it for now.

Fourth Step in Getting the Effect
Now that I have my new pupil I still have that annoying round pupil still visible behind it.
Now
Go to your layers in your layer bar, in there on the corner of every layer you’re working with is an eye. This means that the layer you are working with is visible and can be worked on.
Click on the eye in the corner of your brush layer and make your new pupil dissapear. Don’t worry it’s still there.

Fifth Step in Getting the Effect

Now take your clone brush and their SOFT circular shapes carefully clone the iris until the pupil is gone. Now make the pupil brush visible again and merge all the layers.

FINAL NOTE: If you want to lighten up the eye to make it look more possessed I recommend dodging it, which is explained in my previous eye tutorial.

Stock credit :

[link]
- eye effect brushes
End of Part 2

Description
There are a lot of things you can do with Photoshop but recently one of the most popular things everyone is doing is manipulating the eye.

The way I have worked with eyes in the past has been sort of experimental to see what worked …and then what didn’t, and to be truthful there are a lot of things that won’t work but when you fool around with something it comes out looking decent.

I’m not going to lie and say that I’m an expert on this particular effect but here I’ll teach you how I work with eyes in the simplest way possible.

Part 1 can be found here [link]
Part 2 Getting an Effect

This part will deal in getting that “demon” or “cat” look. In laymen’s terms this is to help you manipulate the pupil of the eye your working on.

First Things First
Working With Stock Model and Their Eyes
There will be models that have great eyes with wonderful detail and then you’ll find ones whose overall body is high pixel quality but his or her eyes are not so hot.
It’s a crapshoot as it all comes down to the camera the stock artist used and the lighting for the quality of the picture.
Choosing Your Image
Plain and simple, the better qualities you work with the better you manips come out to be.

Your First Step
Based on the first tutorial you know that you’ll want to zoom in on the eye close enough to see the details on the iris.

What Now?
In this tutorial we will be using some brushes that I have found helpful in my eye manipulations. You can download them here ~> Eye Effects Brushes

Please know that this tutorial with all the directions and step by step images can be downloaded

Getting the Effect

Now that you have the brushes select one that you would like to use.

NOTE: For me personally I have found that this type of brush works best when used with the simplest brush with less white of the eye cover on the brush.
Why?
Because the part of the brush that is supposed to be the white of the eye picks up the same color as what you are trying to make the pupil look like.
Simply said it looks weird and unnatural but that might be what you’re looking for.

First Step in Getting the Effect
Make a sure that the bush is proportional to the eye, meaning that the brush does not go over the border of the iris. Make a selection with the brush so that the marquee lights up on the selection.
NOTE: The more you click on a brush the more it will select to its mold. This is making a brush select to its capacity.

Second Step in Getting the Effect
Pupils are black by nature so it’s best to make this new pupil black as well.

NOTE: I use the eyedropper tool to get the exact color of the pupil myself as what with film impurities and pixel distortion the pupil may not be true black but an off black and you want this new pupil to look natural. But you can simply choose black from your color chooser and then that should work fine.

Third Step in Getting the Effect
Go up and choose New Fill Layer then Solid Color and click OK to the message that comes up. All it asks is if you want it to just be plainly filled in and you do it’s fine.
Your eye should look like the eye I have there with the filled in brush.

NOTE: The round pupil will still be present and if you want that effect that’s up to you. You should know that when you fill in a brush that it can be moved and resized like an object. This means you can make this pupil larger or smaller, but I have mine sized to the size I need it for now.

Fourth Step in Getting the Effect
Now that I have my new pupil I still have that annoying round pupil still visible behind it.
Now
Go to your layers in your layer bar, in there on the corner of every layer you’re working with is an eye. This means that the layer you are working with is visible and can be worked on.
Click on the eye in the corner of your brush layer and make your new pupil dissapear. Don’t worry it’s still there.

Fifth Step in Getting the Effect

Now take your clone brush and their SOFT circular shapes carefully clone the iris until the pupil is gone. Now make the pupil brush visible again and merge all the layers.

FINAL NOTE: If you want to lighten up the eye to make it look more possessed I recommend dodging it, which is explained in my previous eye tutorial.

Stock credit :

[link]
- eye effect brushes
End of Part 2