Eyes...

Candid Arts

So I've seen some photos that the eyes are just brilliant. Some how they up the saturation or something in the eyes only so that the green, or blue is extremely vibrant.

I've tried upping the saturation, but that's just ugly. I've tried selecting the eye and putting a blue color over it then making it opaque, but that's just ugly as well.

How can you bring out the color in the eyes properly? I have CS3 and LR2...

Thanks everyone.

pathfinder

Select the eyes with your favorite selection tool, copy them to a new layer with ctrl-j, and then adjust to taste with changes in hue, saturation, curves. LAB moves can be used, as well as plug ins like Viveza or Color Efex Pro.


Then adjust the opacity of the blending of the layers to taste.

Candid Arts

pathfinder wrote:

Select the eyes with your favorite selection tool, copy them to a new layer with ctrl-j, and then adjust to taste with changes in hue, saturation, curves. LAB moves can be used, as well as plug ins like Viveza or Color Efex Pro.


Then adjust the opacity of the blending of the layers to taste.

Are you selecting the entire eye, or just the portion that you want the color to be in? i.e. the iris only.

Also...LAB moves?

pathfinder

Candid Arts wrote:

Are you selecting the entire eye, or just the portion that you want the color to be in? i.e. the iris only.

Depends on what editing you are planning on doing. I may select the whites of the eyes and paint them with a brush with white as a forground color in a Soft Light blending mode to lighten the whites of the eyes. Or I might select the iris color to punch it up with a curve, or a trip to LAB to increase the color saturation by steepening the b curve in LAB.

Also...LAB moves?

See above or here and here and here