Photography/Photo Editing

Hi again, in this tutorial, i will be showing you how to take the eyes in your portrait photos from this:

to this

First you are going to need to get out your Dodge Tool and choose a soft brush that is big enough to take up the entire iris (colored part plus the black pupil in the center) and click a couple times. This will make your eye brighter so the colors pop out more.

The next step will require you to make a new transparent layer on top of your photo. Once that is done select the brush tool and select a solid brush that will cover the iris. Now you need to select a color, you can choose a pretty much any color you want, but it will need to be darker than what you want it to be in the photo. You will see why in a minute. So now click on the iris and it will be that color, now the new layer part comes in handy, make that layer’s blending Overlay. Now it should look like it blends a bit better, to finish, put the opacity around 70% depending on how bright you made the eyes and what color you chose.

For those of you that care, yes, that is me in the pictures.

I made this sweet image in photoshop, you can download the .psd I made to see how I did it Here.