Tutorial – Custom contact lenses
Submitted by Olieng on Tuesday, 8 July 200821 Comments
A true meaning to the term “eye candy”. This tutorial will show you how to add colors and patterns to your eyes giving the look as if you were wearing colored contact lenses.
Download the PSD to work with here. >> Custom lens PSD <<
1. Face mask
- With the polygonal lasso tool draw a selection around the eyes.
- On the main menu go to Select > Inverse.
- Copy and paste this on a new layer and name “facemask”.
2. Cutting & pasting eye
- Go back to the eye layer, with the Elliptical Marquee Tool draw a perfect circle around the eye of the subject.
- Copy and paste the eye on a new layer and name this layer lens.
3. Color and Gradient style
- First choose the color you want your eyes to be, I choose a gradient of light green to dark green. Then turn your blend mode to “Color“
- Then choose a pattern for your eyes, this will become the design which will take over the white area of your eyes. I choosed the pattern named “strings” which should come default with your Photoshop.
Here is finished tutorial.
Practice with different patterns and colors.
7:44 am on July 9th, 2008
7:52 am on July 9th, 2008
Wish I understood Portuguese =) hopefully I can have this tutorial up today or so.
11:30 am on July 9th, 2008
12:23 pm on July 10th, 2008
2:48 pm on July 11th, 2008
I’ve loved your other tutorials so far. They’ve taught me loads. Thanks. =)
7:47 pm on July 21st, 2008
Thanks for the comment!
3:07 am on August 7th, 2008
This is portuguese Olieng..
He said..
Hi i like your tutorials… this is why i come here… to… search for some things.. yeah!!
Lol
and yeah i like your tuts.
1:35 am on September 11th, 2008
6:36 pm on September 19th, 2008
6:36 pm on September 19th, 2008
9:37 am on November 7th, 2008
Couldn’t find the ’strings’ pattern though and I’m using CS2.
11:05 am on November 10th, 2008
7:16 am on December 2nd, 2008
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6:39 pm on April 7th, 2009
Julissa
make a selection of both eyes before you do the select inverse to make the face mask..
after just select 1 eye at a time to extract the iris and make the lens layers.
that should work =)
3:09 am on May 11th, 2009
you rock man its very easy to learn very nice..keep it up
9:44 am on August 12th, 2009
9:20 am on August 25th, 2009
Ty so much it is so cool
3:35 pm on October 2nd, 2009
what photoshop are you using?? i dont know how 2 do this !! HELP PLZ!!
7:45 pm on October 7th, 2009
11:54 pm on October 27th, 2009
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5:02 pm on November 16th, 2009
[...] Custom contact lenses A true meaning to the term “eye candy”. This tutorial will show you how to add colors and patterns to your eyes giving the look as if you were wearing colored contact lenses. Custom lens PSD that’s an easy effect but, haven’t found the way to make it look like “crystal” or with the white sparks that makes it look more Un-natural but at the same time fascinating. [...]