Changeing Eye/Hair color

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Anthony_Serrano
Oct 7, 2003
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What would be the best blend, and colors to use to make it look natural? I tried different variations but the eyes still look fake
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Emma_d_Anise
Oct 7, 2003
The answer is most likely not in the color choices you’re making but the way you’re doing it. Can you be more specific? What’s your goal with the piece?
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Anthony_Serrano
Oct 7, 2003
Well its actually just for reference, i’ve seen be do great work with changing eye color… but i just can’t seem to make it look natural
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barry_gray
Oct 7, 2003
Try curves in the individual channels.
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Douglas_Nelson
Oct 7, 2003
One of the most common reasons colorization doesn’t look "right" is that the underlying tone isn’t appropriate for the new color. Recolor brown eyes to blue and they’ll look black or purple. Recolor a brunette to a blond and the hair will look light brown or even orange. In addition to simply applying the new color, a local tone adjustment also needs to be made in many cases to lighten or darken the area (instead of applying dark or light coloration).

http://www.retouchpro.com
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Emma_d_Anise
Oct 7, 2003
Yes, I was going to say what Douglas said. Here’s <http://www.geocities.com/melissa_14_27/colorsample.htm> a sample I just did. The first image is the true coloring. I’ve adjusted not only the eye color on the subsequent examples, but also the tones in the face to create a more natural look.

All I’ve used for this were adjustment layers (Hue/Sat & Curves).

Good luck to you, I hope this made sense!

~Em
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Anthony_Serrano
Oct 7, 2003
hmm… How would i adjust the local tone, I still quite new to some features is photoshop. See I was having the same problem douglas said i would be having… I was chaning the eye color by creating a new layer and then painting over the eye, then blending adjust the blending and opacity which now i see was a completly wrong approach lol.

Emma what you did, is eactly what i was trying to accomplish, do you think there is any way i can get the psd file u used and maybe a note here and there so i can see what was done.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who replied and too the time to help me out .. I greatly appreciate it.

oh and thanks for the link douglas, imma be reading the tutorials this weekend 🙂
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Anthony_Serrano
Oct 7, 2003
hmm… How would i adjust the local tone, I still quite new to some features is photoshop. See I was having the same problem douglas said i would be having… I was chaning the eye color by creating a new layer and then painting over the eye, then blending adjust the blending and opacity which now i see was a completly wrong approach lol.

Emma what you did, is eactly what i was trying to accomplish, do you think there is any way i can get the psd file u used and maybe a note here and there so i can see what was done.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who replied and too the time to help me out .. I greatly appreciate it.

oh and thanks for the link douglas, imma be reading the tutorials this weekend 🙂
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Emma_d_Anise
Oct 9, 2003
Let me get back to you this afternoon about this when I have more time.

~Em
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Philo_Calhoun
Oct 9, 2003
Eyes: hue/sat and curve adjustment layers.
Hair: probably best result is with gradient map adjustment layer.
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Anthony_Serrano
Oct 10, 2003
I have no idea what a gradient map adjustment layer is lol….. Now when i adjust the hue/sat on the eyes…. wouldn’t that affect the whole picture?.. or would i cut out the eyes and put it on a new layer?
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Emma_d_Anise
Oct 10, 2003
No, select the eyes with your marquee tool. Switch to QuickMask to clean up, feather, or adjust the selection. Switch back out of QuikcMask. Select Adjustment Layer>Hue & Saturation.

Hope that helps. I was going to take apart the layered file from the examples I posted to show you but I didn’t save it. Actually, I suppose I could do it again…
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sandy_johnson
Oct 10, 2003
Don’t cut out the eyes. You can select with magic wand, feather selection a bit, copy/paste on new layer and adjust the H&S or curves. Or you could paint on a new layer using color instead of normal. There’s probably a dozen other ways too.
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Emma_d_Anise
Oct 10, 2003
But you can apply your hue/saturation adjustments on an adjustment layer without cutting or copying your selection at all. Sandy is right, though, you can do it that way and there are probably a hundred ways to do it. But here <http://www.geocities.com/melissa_14_27/eyecolorchange.htm> is a quick tut I threw together on how to use adjustment layers the way I described to do this.

Hope this helps!
~Em
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Anthony_Serrano
Oct 11, 2003
I never expected so many responses :).. I thank everyone, and thanks u emma for helping me out also.. I’m going to practice on your tutorial. I have two other quick questions though

1. Would this also be used for like hair and lipstick color?
2. I understood everything you explain, but what exactly does feather do, and why would you use it?

Thanks 🙂
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Anthony_Serrano
Oct 11, 2003
lol it worked… i didn’t think it was so easy, actually i never even used adjustment layers till like last week.. thanks you 🙂

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