Tutorials
Creating a realistic eye texture to finished iris
Where: Adobe Photoshop -> Actions
Author: nezbitten
Created: 7/14/2008
Last Revision: 8/31/2011
Skill Level: Regular
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Author: nezbitten
Created: 7/14/2008
Last Revision: 8/31/2011
Skill Level: Regular
Viewed 1052 times.
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Step by step eye texture with action
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Eyeball. Colour Pupil and Iris
I normally only post on photo repair and restoration but today I thought this may be of use.
This is a texture that I found to be very effective for the Iris of an eye.
Start by creating a new file around 1000 pixels square. Your colour palette should be set to Red foreground, white background or You can use Red foreground, black background if you want flecks of red in your iris. Filter/render/clouds Filter/texture/stained glass/ cell size 10/ light intensity 4/ border 3 Filter/blur/radial blur zoom/distance 80
Image/Adjust/Invert Image/adjust/exposure (adjust for more contrast)
New Layer. Draw circle on a new layer. Almost filling the canvas. Feather 1 pixel and fill with black. Next from the drop down menu, Select, modify/contract/ set to 6. Feather the selection by 5, delete. You should now be left with a dark ring. On a new layer draw a new circle for the pupil, not too big and fill with black.
In the Layers pallet, select this layer and add outer glow. Choose a green that compliments the blue textured iris. Make it wide and diffused, just play with the setting until you are happy.
On a new layer create the highlights by drawing a circle and filling with whit, but use the graduated fill set to colour to transparent. Shape the catch light how you like, but bear in mind you should be following the curvature of the “ball” of the eye.
On new layers add more catch lights or reflections as you so desire and vary the transparencies of the layers to get varying degree of reflections. To finish, select with the magic wand the outside of the larger circle. Keep the selection active and create a new layer and fill the selection with white. A final burning in of the mid-tones around the edge of the eye should create a further illusion of a bulge in the eye.
Update
I made the iris outer glow a bit brighter. Added another outer ring underneath the existing one with a thicker and heavily feathered dark green. Then on the "iris rays" layer, i used the smudge tool to create the dividing line between the green glow and the outer colours. I added a more convincing highlight!!
If you would like to download an action that automates most of this then you can get it here.
Comments
 | by nezbitten on Aug 18, 2008 2:14:40 pm [homepage] Wonderfully simple thanks! |
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| well no one else had commented! |
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 | Looks very informative, I will try it! Thanks!! |
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| hurrah! pleas do, it is very simple and I think offers a quick Iris texture without too much mucking about. |
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| This is a good tut not as detailed as I would like. You did a good job. This is more for someone who is a little more experienced with ps and where to find everything. Your eye is beautiful though. |
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| Sweet, definately will add some realism to my renderings |
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 | I'll be trying it, thank you! |
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 | by ForbiddenWhispers on Aug 28, 2008 3:18:17 am [homepage] I wouldn't say this wasn't a realistic texture in my opinion. It's very vector in style, and would work well for a vendor wanting to do anime style eyes... but for realism not so much. thanks for sharing :) |
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| Very cool tutorial! ^_^ Thanks a lot! |
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| by InfoCentral on Aug 29, 2008 1:00:17 am [homepage] I wish I knew PS more so I could do this tutorial... |
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 | Very useful, thanks. |
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 | I definately am going to try it! It's well written and seems to me even I can do it. :) Thank you very much. Love, Jeanne |
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 | by seedydeedee on Aug 29, 2008 6:23:13 pm [homepage] That looks fantastic - must go try it now! :D |
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| Thanks for the tutorial, I'm sure it's going to be very useful. |
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| Thanks everyone, if anyone feels that my Iris is not real enough then perhaps we can all downlaod my action and mush it about until we come up with something that suits everyone? Isn't that what the web is about all clubbing together and looking out for each other. Re-post the results here and we can all take a look! |
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| by SassyPumpkins on Nov 29, 2008 11:28:41 am [homepage] While I'm new to PS I am going to give this a go as I've always been fascinated with eyes and this looks fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing it!! |
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| Oh dear. No one has reposted any results, all willing to use the info but not willing to share back, shame on you all! |
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| by biplob_av05 on May 21, 2010 12:03:22 am [homepage] great work |
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