Eye - Another Way

This tut is converted from a PhotoShop tut written by Czarinaqueen at Renderocity and resembles my Animated Eyes tut with a few subtle differences...I liked them so much, I decided to write it for Photo Impact.

	Version: 8 Level: Intermediate Tools: Path Tools, Eraser, Paint, Burn, Dodge, Warp, Bristle brush, Bristle Smear, Blur Additional Files: None needed
	1. Start with a 300 x 300 white canvas. Since we are working in layers, using the Path Tool rectangle, make your shape 295 x 295. This nearly fills the canvas, but we don't want it filled all the way. Right click and convert to an object.
	2. a. Using the eraser tool, while your rectangle is still selected, size 10, erase out your eye shape. Make sure the inner corner has the little rounded shape, much like the corner of your own eye. b. While the rectangle is still selected, right click and duplicate your shape. Then, go to Format/Invert. This turn the duplicated rectangle black. Take your paint brush, size 20, paint IN MODE, color #F9FAFF (a very VERY pale blue; we don't want a complete white) and paint over the eye shape. Make sure to paint OUTSIDE the edges of the erased shape. Its ok if it's not perfect; it will be hidden by the skin rectangle. c. Now, select your black rectangle and delete (yes delete; we no longer need this template). Select your near white eye shape and right click, arrange, send to back. It should now be behind your "skin".
	3. With the "skin" layer selected, use your burn tool in size 30, level 70 and burn the edges and out of the cut out eye. Make sure to use it mostly around the edges of the cut out. Then Blur size 20, level 5 as shown.
	4 a. Select your eye shape behind the skin. Using the paint brush, size 10, a pale pink/peach (my color here is #FFCBC9) and carefully paint in the corners. Make SURE to keep the white rounded looking! b. Using the burn tool (as size, etc, as above) and burn the very corners. Then use the blur tool to blur into the white (do not blur so that the white turns all pink, just enough to blend in)
	5. The fun part!!! Choose what color you want your iris to be. Using the paint brush, size about 60 (we want it to extend behind the skin), put the curser right in the middle of the white, and click about 5-6 times. Make sure NOT to move your mouse...we want it to stay in the same place. The color I'm using here is #0000C4. b. Now, using the burn tool, size 20, burn between the outer edge and middle of the eye. I put more burn on the top of the eye, since its shadowed by your lashes. c. Next, take the Dodge tool, size 25, level 80, again put right the middle of the eye and click until the circle of your curser is filled.
	6. Now take the warp tool, size 5 (zoom in 200% for this part) and pull from the middle of the eye to the outer edge (but do NOT go beyond your iris) Do this all around, using the contour of the eye. Then start at the outer edge and drag in the darker color into the lighter middle. b. Using your paint tool again, size 20, black, put right in the middle of the lighter part of the eye and click 4 times. This is our pupil. Looking good, isn't it??
	7. Now to make the lashes...this may seem a bit silly, but it definitely works better this way. Select your skin, take your paint brush, size 7, black and paint IN MODE. Outline the eye, but do not go all the way around. Leave some open, as shown. You may even want to stop just past the iris on the bottom lid. Blur this slightly. Now, select the liner and the skin and merge into a single object. You may want to blur again, gently and at a lower level. b. Using the warp tool, size 7, pull from the black liner and up, curving slightly. This is what makes the soft eyelashes. Continue doing this across the top, making them shorter at the inside corner. Make them as full as you wish, but try not to over do it, nor make them too long (unless you are going for that Vegas Showgirl look!!) ;-) C. Make sure to use your blur tool when done at a low level and smaller size along the black line (not in the lashes) to blur gently.
	8. The brows; Using the bristle brush, size 14, preset of grass, color #772B1A, paint in MODE and shape your brow as shown. b. Then change to size 10, color #B7770D and using upward short strokes brush in the lighter color. Do not overdo this. c. Merge the brow with the "skin". Using the bristle smear tool, lightly brush across the brow.
	9. Using your burn tool, size about 6, level 4 or 5, burn slightly at the bottom of your brow. Blur very lightly. Now take the Dodge tool, size about 5 or 6, and dodge very lightly at the top of the brow. You can take the bristle smear tool to this, then blur very very lightly. If you find stray hairs, you can "tweeze" them out by blurring into the skin :-) No pain!!
	10. Select your eye - Using the paint tool size 7, white, transparency of 50, put the curser just off to one side of the pupil in the iris of the eye and tap about 5 times. Now change to size 10, put at the upper edge of the pupil and tap 2x.
	I finished up with adding a bit more shading along the "nose" and under the eye area. You may not have to do this. I also (before merging all) took the eraser and erased that teeny bit of black lower liner that was too much into the white close to the corner. When satisfied, merge all. You can then cut the excess white off the outside edges of your "skin"
Using Hex #772B1A Using Hex #9AAABB Using Hex#00C400 & #B7770D Using Hex #7950A5 Using Hex#00C400 & #E9F47B	A few different color examples!