Photoshop Quick Tips #12: Alien EyeListThumbs
Photoshop Quick Tips #12: Alien Eye
On today's quick tips I will be showing you how to create an alien eye, a simple and easy effect that can give an extra coolness to you next manipulation or just freak out one of your friends by getting them and alien eye.
Ok, to begin with we need a photo that we want to apply the Alien Eye. I got a close up eye to make it easier to show you.
Now what we need to do is to paint the whole eye area black, you can do that by selecting the eye area and painting it black or just going with the brush, the important thing is that you get the eye area painted black and make sure you do that on a new layer just in case you need to make any changes later on.
We got the main part done now we need to work around the details on the eye, first detail is to give some light reflections to make the eye look more realistic. So, on a new layer pick a small soft brush I just painted a little mark, a line following the curve of the eye and another two little marks, to decrease the roughness give a little bit of gaussian blur and you should get a result like you can see bellow.
Now we are going to do another line on the bottom part, create a new layer and using a soft brush I'm going to make a thicker line as you can see.
To finish you need to apply a good amount of Gaussian Blur and lower the Opacity of the layer to 50% so that line turns into a nice light reflection that will make your alien eye look even more realistic.
So your Alien Eye is almost done and your layer should look like this:
Now to give a better contrast I am going to create a new layer between the background and blackeye layer and I will paint a big black mark around the eye as you can see.
And to finish up apply a good amount of gaussian blur (I used 60%). This will reduce the contrast between the eye and the skin around it.
The reason why I didn't write the exactly setting on each move is because you need to see and feel how it looks every time you apply something, there is not a perfect recipe so adjust everything the way you like it and you will have a great result.
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35 Comments
bizarre! WTF?!?!
I usually love the tutorials here, but this one seems very amateurish, and is not to the standard of Abduzeedo :(
... ugh?
that is freaky! O_O
freaky cool! can't wait to do it! lol
Groooooosss! ;D Awesome tutorial!
cool and simple
interesting. It remind me of the demons eyes on Supernatural. Il see if a can do this to a video with tracking.
Thanks for the tutorial. Its freaky but great for having fun with others pics ;)
jajajajaja very nice tutorial, amazing
Cool effect, but still that black should not be absolutely black, because, as I remember from my painting lessons, there is no absolutely black or white color in nature.
Also from theory of photography absolutely black is considered underexposed or absolutely white is considered 'burned' or overexposed.
jajajajajaja amazing, nice tutorial
I know most of the tutorials on this site that detailed but this tutorial is absolute rubbish. Especially those white brush strokes towards the bottom of the eye. I expect much better than this from Abduzeedo. Let me know if you agree or if I should just shut up...
I agree blcArmadillo!
ZZZzzzz..
sorry but i agree blc, i think everyone know how to use a brush and a blur, i usually get excited when i see a tut or a quick tip
This is a joke? sorry but I thought that the abduzeedo do a sense tutorials
@bicArmadillo @aKee @StellarDezignz- You guys have to understand that not everything that we post here will be useful for you,
Sometimes an basic tuto will be disappointing for you but will make the day of thousands of other people, and the other way around as well.
So my answer for bic would be disagree and just shut up lol specially because you been a member for almost a year and I am sure you seen hundreds of posts you liked but you never made an afford to say thank you, and as soon as you see something not useful for you, you decided to make the bad comment.
@StellarDezignz- If you were smart enough to read the title you would know that It's a quick tip on how to make an Alien Eye, it's not about how to use brushes and blur.
So cool!!! Easy and really nice!
Well, i just join'd this awesome blog/site. I am visiting Abduzeedo for a few mouths now and i really love it!
However the end result of this tut issnt that great (as bicArmedillo sayd), its really good and helpfull if you wanna make the alien eye effect. Thanks Paul0v2 for sharing this with us!
thanks paul i understand now
i like this.... so cooooooool...............
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28900704@N06/3640598426/
it is eye boy made photoshop ........:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eggchandrika/3641012570/
sick! =)
I like this tutorial. Yes, I already knew how to use the blur tool and whatever but I've never thought of using it in this way so it was interesting to see. Thanks!
nice tutorial
This is a realy bad Tutorial. In my Eyes it istn't allowed to call such easy thing in Photoshop a Tutorial.
Not equal to Abduzeedo's standart.
To all of those posting anonymously ..about how crappy this tut is or isn't .. how about you make a better one and send it in .. then you can whine and complain .. yes it may not have been quite as "super" as the ones here usually are.. but at the same time "super" aren't always easy to find or easy to get permission to use ..
so .. if you can't out do it .. then just enjoy it or at least keep it down .. (posting anonymously at that lol)
its so simple but SO GOOD..
hahaha!!!
that's funny but still cool!!!
XD
awesome, was very easy and cretive. thanx
Thank you so much, Paul0v2!!!
It really helped me out. I'm watching Supernatural and I always wanted to make these eyes and they always looked crappy and not realistic. And now it worked, in a very easy way!
And to those complaining: Complicated isn't always the best way ;)
wow, i had so much fun with this, i can't stop doing it to my photos. thanks.
As a new person to the digital world of photoshop ; illustrator and maya , I have to admit that this is a very fun n easy way to get to know photoshop and at that , prank with some friends by making them freak out , thanks alot for this tutorial , it's the 1st one I did and I guess many more will follow .
Great site , keep it up.
Come on people this is ridiculous, the only people who like or could possible like this re those who have recently gone from Microsoft paint to photoshop and dont know its potential, Seriously poor tut and picture
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