How to Color, Brighten and Sharpen Eyes in Photoshop

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Make Eyes Look Amazing in Photoshop

If you have ever seen amazing eyes in a photo there is a good chance that it has been edited in Photoshop. Enhancing a person’s eyes in Photoshop is a quick way to make an image really stand out.

In today’s episode we show you how to use the natural colors of an eye to enhance its color depth. You will also learn how to properly dodge and burn an eye to make it stand out.

Coloring the Eye

There are many ways to color a person’s eye in Photoshop. This method uses the natural color of the eye as a base for new color. Start out by creating a new layer and sampling the color from the inner part of the eye. Next open your color palette and increase both lightness and saturation. This will give you a more vibrant version of the same hue. Then paint over the inner part of the eye, covering where the original color was. Do this a couple of times, sampling colors from around the eye.

After all of the colors are painted, change your layer blending mode to “Soft Light” or “Overlay” to allow the color to blend into the eyes. Then make sure to use “Gaussian Blur” to soften the edges of where you painted.

The eyes should be quite a bit more vibrant but still look natural.

Dodging and Burning the Eye

In this episode we use curves adjustment layers to brighten the center part of the pupil and darken the outer edges of the pupil. This change will give the eyes more depth and light.

Sharpening

The final step is to sharpen the eyes. You may already be sharpening your whole image, but just sharpening key areas (like the eyes) is a great way to draw more attention to those areas.

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25 Comments
  1. Fadi Bitar says

    Wow what a cool technique! Any chance that you've come across even more tips for the eyes since making this video 5 years ago? Would love a follow-up!

  2. Laura Greene says

    A-maze-balls. Thank u so much. Brilliant video

  3. mark john says

    Enjoy ur videos sooooooo much and ur humor 🤣 love it

  4. Fernando b c says

    Amazing!!!!!

  5. max hamman says

    I would like to see a video on just your facial hair because it changes so much. You got some styles, my dude

  6. Anthony Michael says

    I lost your direction when group selecting the layers and selecting overlay/soft light. For some reason it's affecting the whole image rather than just the eyes when the eyes are all I worked on in those layers.

  7. Daniel Kiermaier says

    I just found Aaron and PHLEARN last weekend. I also just shot the entire last week in the most instructive manner. I enjoyed your presentation as well as your humor; looking forward to more. Thanks for taking the time to instruct and share.

  8. Liberty Daniel says

    GREAT !!!

  9. Adam Kan says

    I really like your channel but I'm a newbie so if you can speaker lower next time I'd really appreciate it! ^^

  10. selfademus says

    so, yea…my phlern finally arrived today,
    but it's all droopy right out of the box!
    is like, a stand sold separately or something?

  11. Kathy Wittenburg says

    THANK YOU SO MUCH Aaron! I've been looking for this for a long time and will use it often!

  12. jaspermatty says

    what about very dark brown eyes with no sparkle/light

  13. DeepSyntax says

    So: Lighten eyes, then darken eyes, then blur eyes, then sharpen eyes… profit??

  14. magda pietryga says

    why I stuck with paiting with white, my pencil doesnt pain???????help!!!

  15. Ana Prifti says

    so helpful. thank su

  16. Lupin Alvarez says

    aaron you`re the best!

  17. Ernie Moore says

    Great tutorial. Question, how do you apply this technique to eyes that are a deep brown with very little definition?

  18. Luian Chang says

    You are like a Photoshop God!

  19. AdamWarren Media says

    This was an amazing tutorial, thank you so much!

  20. Joshua Studios says

    Great video man, helped a lot. Keep up the good work!

    p.s. nice stache

  21. JaLoza says

    it was done at 9:55

  22. AleBorges Fotografia says

    Awesome tutorial. What about black eyes? any trick?

  23. Salar says

    He is a good YouTuber and a best tecaher 👍 keep it up.

  24. Kiril Iliev says

    It was amazing, great work and nice skills ! Thanks for tutorial

  25. Aaron He says

    Thank you!!!!
    Super helpful!
    Love your video forever!!!

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