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

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 2 can be found here [link]
Part 1 Dodging the Eye

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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 your manips come out to be.


Your First Step
So you have your image, you’ll want to zoom in on the eye. NOTE: When zooming you’ll want to get close enough to see the details of the iris.


What Now?
Take a look at your tools on your toolbar there. There are a few things you can do here.


Dodging The Eye
Your doge tool brings out the light in whatever you put it under. This works well with eyes in that you can bring out eyes that have irises with highlights in them or even lighten up a brown eye (this works better when the brown eye is higher pixel image)

Take your doge tool and enlarge your tool so that it is not only circular but big enough to reach from the retina (the black center) to the end of the iris. Hold the tool down and in a circle go slowly around the eye.
NOTE: The more you go over the eye the brighter it will become, you might want that effect you might not.
To dodge the iris even more left up on the mouse and hold it down again for another round.
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