How to do Sith eyes effect?

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How to do Sith eyes effect?

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Pretty much what it says...

Velvet's been guiding me somewhat, but I keep getting frustrated.

Here's what I want to achieve...

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Then here's the base picture...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/ ... r_me_5.jpg

And here's what I've got so far, though I'm not too happy with it...

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Any advice and help y'all can offer would be greatly appreciated... also a walkthrough on the techniques I need to know, as I'm extremely unfamilar with anything but simple cropping/resizing and playing with color levels.

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1. Select eyes

2. Open gradient menu (ctrl-M)

3. Choose "blue" from dropdown menu

4. Klick Curve in middle

5. Pull black dot that is now on the line up (or down for some versions of Photoshop).

6. If result is not satisfying choose "green" from drop down menu

7. Play with gradients until result is good.
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Oh, and your eye selection in that picture isn´t that great. I suggest making a selection and then choosing "soft selection" (or whatever that´s called in the english version) from the menu "selection" with a value of 1 or 2 pixels.
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Post by Elheru Aran »

Thanks Salm...

A little better, though I'm still not quite happy with the color. A ring of red... ish... added around the edge of the iris now as well.

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Again... suggestions appreciated...

BTW, I played around with that 'color levels' thing from the ctrl+m thing, and that was as yellow as it'd get to satisfy me.... ditto the red. Help?

(Oh, and you're welcome to do your own versions as well, to demonstrate or whatever, XaLEv already did)
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Damn, boy... do you shave with a butter knife?

And I'm surprised that that's as far as your gradients go. I'll have a look and see what I can do.
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Butter knife? Hardly... just hadn't shaved in a few days and that's an old picture anyway :P

But yeah, that's as far as my gradients go, pretty much. I'm chalking it up to either a.) my inexperience or b.) the *ahem* method by which I procured my copy of P/S (and no, it was NOT off teh intarweb...). Feel free to experiment...
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Everything from the inside of the natural iris is is yellowed, and then working out from that, you want to make it look like you've burst hundreds of capillaries and soaked parts of your sclerae in blood.

Pleasant thing to have, Sith eyes, are not.
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Yeah, the whites of your eyes need to be redder. Try playing with that last pic you posted, and see if you can hue the whites do to a reddish-pink.
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I don't really know what a sith eye is supposed to look like, but here's a try from the reference pic and the descriptions.. XD
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AnimeJet wrote:I don't really know what a sith eye is supposed to look like, but here's a try from the reference pic and the descriptions.. XD
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I think this is the best result by far...
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*Thumbs up* I agree with Walper, I REALLY like what you got there, Sparky... think you could do that with the rest of the pic?
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Elheru Aran wrote:*Thumbs up* I agree with Walper, I REALLY like what you got there, Sparky... think you could do that with the rest of the pic?
We're calling him Sparky? ::Shrugs:: 'Kay.

Yeah, Sparks, I really like that. Any way someone could maybe make the whites a little redder, or maybe intensify the red on the lip of the eyelids? I think that would make the eye pop better.
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Queeb Salaron wrote:
Elheru Aran wrote:*Thumbs up* I agree with Walper, I REALLY like what you got there, Sparky... think you could do that with the rest of the pic?
We're calling her Sparky? ::Shrugs:: 'Kay.

Yeah, Sparks, I really like that. Any way someone could maybe make the whites a little redder, or maybe intensify the red on the lip of the eyelids? I think that would make the eye pop better.
He's calling me sparky because my screen name has "Spark" in it.. i dunno, were you ever in the SDnet chat.. back when i was still there... lol. I'll get the other eye tomorrow since i was busy today x_x.
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Pardon the gender confusion. Didn't mean to penisize you.

And for the record, I'm so damned tired that I laughed when I wrote the word "Penisize."

And off to bed I go!!
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On another note, I think the Sith eyes are done with....*drumroll* custom contacts.
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Post by Shroom Man 777 »

The latest eye modifications are cool, but the Sith Eyes have more yellow in em, less black. And I think that Aran's picture should be resized, since Sith Eyes aren't supposed to be seen up close. Anakin's picture is smaller and has more distance.
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Shroom Man 777 wrote: And I think that Aran's picture should be resized, since Sith Eyes aren't supposed to be seen up close. Anakin's picture is smaller and has more distance.
big mother of a huge jpg

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Ah, okay. Like I said, more yellow, less black. Less pupils.
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AnimeJet wrote:He's calling me sparky because my screen name has "Spark" in it.. i dunno, were you ever in the SDnet chat.. back when i was still there... lol. I'll get the other eye tomorrow since i was busy today x_x.
I started that. *inflates a balloon with the word "ego" written on it, watches it pop*

Anyway, I think he's got too much pupil. The yellow isn't showing enough.
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Eh? eh? I can't duplicate the effect i got last night >_<. I do most of the stuff manually XD
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YES!!!

Though maybe you'd like to make the point where the red and yellow connect a little more blurry. Look at the close up shot of Anakin, the red didn't merely just ring around the yellow, there were some parts where the red kinda flowed into the yellow part. But this is really just nitpicking.
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Very well done AimeJet. I'm impressed. 8)

PS: Elheru Aran, your picture is still no match for my Sithified face. :P
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Aye, AnimeJet, that´s cool. :D
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AnimeJet wrote:He's calling me sparky because my screen name has "Spark" in it.. i dunno, were you ever in the SDnet chat.. back when i was still there... lol. I'll get the other eye tomorrow since i was busy today x_x.
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xBlackFlash wrote:
AnimeJet wrote:He's calling me sparky because my screen name has "Spark" in it.. i dunno, were you ever in the SDnet chat.. back when i was still there... lol. I'll get the other eye tomorrow since i was busy today x_x.
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