Glowing Eyes Tutorial

Making glowing white eyes:


1. Using the paint brush, color in the pupils white.

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2. Create a new layer.


3. Using the paint bucket, color the new layer white.


4. On the character layer use the magic wand to select the eye areas.

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5. Switch to the white layer and hit Ctrl + I on your keyboard then hit delete.

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6. On the layer with just the white eyes cut out use gaussian blur at 10.

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7. Make sure the white eyes layer is on top of the character layer. Copy the white eyes layer until it looks right.

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8. Flatten the image.



Making glowing color eyes:


1. Follow steps 1-7 from above.



2. Create a new layer.

3. Using the paint bucket, color the new layer whatever color you want.

4. On the character layer use the magic wand to select the eye areas.



5. Go to the color layer and hit ctrl + I and then delete on your keyboard. You should have a color cut out of the eyes.



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6. Use gaussian blur on the color layer. Use more of the effect than you did on the white eyes layer.



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7. Make sure the white eyes layer is above the character layer and the color layer is above the white eyes layer. Go to the layers box and click properties and change the mode to additive.



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8. Flatten the image.