How to Make Sunglasses in Photoshop

Sometimes a photograph just needs to have a pair of sunglasses added. Perhaps there is an unattractive shadow over his eyes, or her hair seems to have decided to cover her eyes. At any rate, sunglasses can be added in a matter of minutes for the proficient, and in under an hour for beginners.

Instructions

1. Open an image of a model in Photoshop. The face should be turned slightly toward the right, but mostly straight on. This will help decrease the amount of tweaking that has to be done to the sunglasses.

2. Select the pen tool from the left hand toolbar. Draw the outline of a pair of sunglasses, including the legs. Draw the frame in the size that you want in regard to the lens. They can be big and stylish or petite and elegant.

3. Use the paths tool from the left hand tool bar. Going around the outline of the sunglasses you drew, click at key points on the outline. Each time you click, you leave a control point. Push and pull on the control points with your mouse to make sure the curves of the sunglasses are correct. Press "Control" and "Enter" to commit your selection.

4. Using the paint bucket, fill the sunglasses shape with color. Lower the fill percentage to 85.

5. Using the pen tool, draw each of the lenses of the sunglasses on new layers. To create a new layer, press "Control" and "N."

6. Select the paths tool from the left hand toolbar and bend the lenses selection to be rounded properly. Press "Control" and "Enter" to make the selection permanent.

7. Select the right side lens and paste it over the rim frame. Delete the area where the lenses of the glasses are located by pressing the "Delete" key. Repeat this process with the left lens.

8. Right click and select "Effect" and "Inner shadow." Change the inner shadow to 75 percent opacity, -50 for the angle, 5 pixels distance, no choke and sized 13 pixels. Click "OK."

9. Add a layer style by clicking the icon at the bottom of the layers palette. Leave the default settings as they are and click "OK."

10. Create another layer style by clicking the icon and click the pattern overlay box. Select a pattern.

11. Select the drop shadow check box and change the blend mode to multiply. Adjust the angle to 115 degrees and the distance to 12 pixels. Choose a 5 percent raise ratio and click "OK."

12. Create an inner glow layer around and change the blend mode to multiply. The distance should be 11 pixels, the choke 25 percent and the size set to 25 pixels. Click "OK."

References

• Alfoart: Crazy kiwi sunglasses