In this tutorial you will learn how to change your eye color using Adobe Photoshop. Sometimes you just want to see how you’d look with a different eye color or create the next big vamp art. More realistically , this can also help you decide on the color of future contact lenses that you might want to buy. There are more than a few ways to do this, but we’ll just cover the two most used techniques.

In the first part we’ll be using layers, the “Brush Tool” {} and a mask. This works for any angle or image.
Part two is way easier but only works for some images.

Preview

1/3 The base Photoshop document

Scout-out a suitable image and open it in Photoshop. We chose:

A Photoshop rule of thumb is to work on duplicate layers before you make-up your mind. To make a copy of the background right-click on the “Background” layer and click “Duplicate Layer”. You can also press CTRL+J or CMD+J on MAC. Use an easy-to-remember name for the new layer.

2/3 The Color

Pick the “Brush Tool” {} from your toolbox bar and choose a color from the color swatches. We’ve picked pure magenta for the fun factor. Before you get started coloring the eyes, make sure the “eye” layer is selected and that you’ve set the brush mode to “Color”.

Start coloring the eyes and don’t worry if you’re overlapping other areas of the photo. We’ll fix that later.

3/3 The Mask

We should start fixing the sloppy parts. With your “eye” layer still selected click the “Add Layer Mask” button {}. It’s located right under your layers. Start painting over the parts you don’t want colored. When in mask mode, black reveals the layer from underneath and white conceals it. To ease your work, use a small, soft brush.

If the color is too intense, like in our case, you can play with the layer’s opacity levels.

End of part 1

After:

Continue to page 2 for an easier way to get the same result