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How To Create Scary Eyes in Photoshop

Contest, Photoshop, Styling Oct 28 , Episode 162

How To Create Scary Eyes in Photoshop
Today is the last day of Halloween week, and we are celebrating by doing 2 different types of eye effects.

The first effect will be turning the eyes completely black, and just adding the highlights. This is a quick cool way to totally make a photo creepy.
The other eye effect involves making the iris brighter, and the rest of the eye darker, as well as adding some colors.

We have a contest this weekend – Create an effect like this for Halloween. The top 5 entries on Phlearn.com win a FREE PRO tutorial. Good luck, we can’t wait to see your entries, be sure to have them in by Monday.

Gear Used in This Episode

Wacom Intuos 4 Small

Adobe Photoshop CS6

15" Macbook PRO

Sony NEX 5N

Audio Technica AT2020USB Microphone

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http://www.facebook.com/priscilla.lf Priscilla Lumbreras Fernández

Is that make-up?
http://www.facebook.com/priscilla.lf Priscilla Lumbreras Fernández

That is awesome!
http://twitter.com/Jameswarwood James Warwood

Here’s my attempt. Had a lot of fun doing it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jameswarwood/6296182749/
Anonymous

Happy Halloween!
Angie

This is my daughter and she is an up and coming artist living in Nashville. This is one of her promo shots…without the black eyes of course. Check her out at http://www.stacicarriere.com. We both love phlearn! Let us know if you have any cool ideas for promo shots. We need stuff that stands out from the crowd!
Klingley11

Happy Halloween! There wasnt much detail in my eyes, so i couldnt exactly use all of the cool tricks in the tutorial…however, i did use other skills that i have learned from PHLEARN to create light in my eyes and some other mods. I used a 580exII with a green gel to light my face and then removed the gel and popped the flash twice more off the ceiling during the 30 sec exposure to light the couldron i wanted more of a smokey effect in my couldron, but couldnt figure out how to get it with a long exposure…in there, i used dry ice and water, lit by 3 glow sticks….be safe this halloween and great pics by everyone that ive looked at so far, especially that dude who took is head off!!!!
http://twitter.com/AngelaMaryBee Angela Butler

http://www.flickr.com/photos/angelamarybutler/6297965328/

I had so much fun doing this.
http://twitter.com/AngelaMaryBee Angela Butler

I had so much fun doing this.
http://twitter.com/AngelaMaryBee Angela Butler

I had a lot of fun with this one!

Also, the Pheatured video is just awful. Hahaha.
http://www.cap-photography.com Andrea Peipe

Awesome!!! I loved this Halloween week

This is what I created… http://www.flickr.com/photos/pucki/6298227044/in/photostream
Jaime

Yes, most of it.
Mark

My very first Werewolf creation. Hours of work and 69 layers. Happy Halloween Phlearn.
Nisde

I ll play too, Happy Halloween people.
http://www.facebook.com/priscilla.lf Priscilla Lumbreras Fernández

My boyfriend convince me to do some improvements…
Lisalove

Happy Halloweeeeeen!
http://www.facebook.com/priscilla.lf Priscilla Lumbreras Fernández

Congrats to the makeup artist, that’s great! But most of all, congrats to you, this is a very cool picture
http://www.facebook.com/priscilla.lf Priscilla Lumbreras Fernández

Greeeeeat!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=690735953 Ben Welch

Happy Halloween!
http://phlearn.com Aaron Nace

OMG this is scary
http://phlearn.com Aaron Nace

haha, love this
http://phlearn.com Aaron Nace

so cool Mark, how did you make the fur?
http://phlearn.com Aaron Nace

You combined like all the episodes, awesome job!
LNDavies

creepy!!
LNDavies

Extra creepy! Nice!
LNDavies

Excellent episode, but all of these black eyes are creeping me out. LOL
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000271892602 Cristian Brigo

I agree!
http://www.cap-photography.com Andrea Peipe

Lol, thanks!!
http://www.cap-photography.com Andrea Peipe

Very cool stuff…
Mark

Thanks Aaron!
The fur is a custom brush (learning from Phlearn!). The fur is a mixture of lengths, and 6 different colors, multiple layers, and opacities. Other details learned from Phlearn include: Blend If (background, and some hair), Warp (upper body and some face), Pen Tool and paths (fingers, nails, toes), Custom paint (facial features), and Layer Properties.
http://twitter.com/AngelaMaryBee Angela Butler

Aaron, just another comment. Maybe this week we can do an episode about making text on an image look like a tattoo? There are some tutorials online but I don’t find them overly realistic. I know how to add a tattoo to an image from Google, but making one from scratch with the text tool is more what I’m talking about, like words on your knuckles.

Yeah. That’d be sweet.
http://photography.paulliebrand.com Paul Liebrand

I agree… I prefer the original one
brando

ya wana tell us briefly how ya did this?
brando

like this alot…great shot ..great composing..gj
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000271892602 Cristian Brigo

option2
Eiríkur Brynjólfsson

had so much fun so i had to post a 2nd.
Eiríkur Brynjólfsson

realy like this one
http://www.facebook.com/ted.schantz Ted Schantz

sure for the neck i used this oil based clay stuff that i bought for pretty cheap and sculpted the neck at about 5inches long and photographed it using the same lighting. colored that in photoshop to match my skin tones. I used two photos of myself one for the body and arms and the other for the hands and head. The eyes were done using the technique taught in this video! I would definitely recommend buying a bit of clay to use in photographs you can do really interesting things with it. hope that helps
http://www.facebook.com/people/Andri-Gerðisá/1592784472 Andri Gerðisá

What up Dúdé!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000271892602 Cristian Brigo

Second attempt
http://twitter.com/abphotos_it Andrea Baccara

Thank you Aaron (and LNDavies)!! Yes I’ve tried to combined all your suggests. Happy halloween everybody.
http://twitter.com/abphotos_it Andrea Baccara

Great light. And awesome work on PS!
Nisde

thank you Andrea
Paul Byun

Very cool tip you got there Aaron. Thanks. Hope you are doing well!
-Paul from NC
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1016971780 Caitlin Rose

I wanted to recreate the Die Antwoord photos and I am also a true lover of Tyler, The Creator. So I incoporated all this ‘~Tyler~Antwoord~’ and produced this.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5uuu4GoVn1qahs2zo1_r1_1280.jpg

PHLEARN tutorials has a major part in my daily inspiration and skill building through photoshop and photography. Only recently have I found it, but woah I appreciate it to the maximum!

Check out http://www.ktbdesign.tumblr.com for more of my photography.

Enjoy!