How to Edit Your Eye Color on a Picture
Amateur and professional photographers alike often come into contact with eye colors in photos that may need adjustment. Whether you're adjusting for red-eye, enhancing the hue or just simply playing around with a strange color, the popular Adobe program Photoshop can do it. Other photo programs should be capable of similar capabilities, but might not be as user-friendly. In "The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers," Scott Kelby notes that "altered eye colors will maintain the basic qualities of an eye" so that the pupil will still be contrasted by the iris.
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Instructions
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Click on the Photoshop icon. Open the picture you'd like to alter within the program.
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Zoom in close enough so that both eyes are visible within the photograph. Get as close as possible so that you can highlight each one.
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Choose the elliptical marquee tool from the tab menu. Select one eye with the tool, then hold the "Shift" key and select the second eye.
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Select the image tab from the menu, then go to "Adjustments." Click on "Hue/Saturation" to alter the color.
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Use the movable bar to slide one way or the other for lighter or darker. Find the color you want and press "OK."
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Pull back out to the original size of the photo. Save the altered photo if you like the results. Repeat steps 2 through 5 to change it again.
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Tips & Warnings
Always save your alterations under a different file name so you don't lose the original.
Some eye colors may look strange or unnatural; consider what the photo is for before you alter it.
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