Iridescent Eyes Tutorial
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Weird eyes are easy to make with BladePro and SuperBladePro.
First, download the Weird Eye preset.
Here are some tips for making the eyes.
Open a new image in PSP, then add a new layer. On the new layer, draw a Circle with
the Select Shape tool, with Antialias checked and Feather set to 0. Flood fill the
selection with white (R=255 G=255 B=255) and leave it selected.
Next open the "ng weirdeye" preset in Blade Pro. Depending on the size of your original
circle, you may have to play around with the Radius and/or Height settings in Blade
Pro to adjust the look of the pupil and eyeball. Just move the sliders back and
forth until you get an effect that you like. Here's one with a smaller pupil. For
this one, I started out with a smaller circle and then just moved the Radius slider
a bit to the left.
Now before you hit the "Email Nightingail to Complain" link - I know that your eyeball doesn't look exactly like the ones shown above... yet. There are a few more steps needed to finish it off. Right now, your eyeball should look something like the one below, with a sharper outline than the others have, making it look more like a weird contact lens than a weird eyeball:
This may be an effect you like, just as it is. If that's the case, then fine, you're
done, go have some coffee ;-) If you want a softer outline, you need to continue
reading.
If you've deselected the eyeball, you will need to re-select it. To do that, first
UNcheck Antialias for the Select Shape tool. Then with the Magic Wand set to All
Pixels, Feather set to 0, re-select the eyeball. Here are the steps to take next,
and remember to keep the selection active:
- Go to Selections - Modify - Contract, and contract by 3 Pixels
- Go to Selections - Modify - Feather, and feather by 4 Pixels
- Invert the Selection
- Hit the delete key
Now you can deselect, and you can do whatever you want with it - for example, change
the shape with the Deformation Tool, change the coloring with the Colors-Adust-Hue/Saturation/Lightness
feature, or any other weird things you want to do. You can also apply this preset
to any spherical shaped tubes you have, and experiment with eyeballs made that way.
Finally, a note of thanks: the inspiration for this preset came from Tony Cheroke's
'Boudoir'. You can link to his presets from my Graphics Crossroads page.
