In the previous lesson, we made this reptile iris for our subject and tracked the movement of her left
eyeball.
So let's begin by zooming into our composition, and I kind of want her reptile eye to show up after
she's opened her eyes.
So here, she shouldn't have the eye.
Let's go forward.
She blinks.
So somewhere around here, I want it to show up.
So grab your left pupil and your left eye colors it to make a 100% opacity.
Push it forward and type in zero.
So before that, she looks normal, but then suddenly she gets the new iris.
Looking good.
Now let's go into the pupil alone and have it blend in better with the.
The colors.
So right now it just looks like a cutout.
So add on your levels adjustment onto the pupil and naturally when we look into her other eyes, she
doesn't have that much reflections because like we said, the camera is above her, so we're getting
shadows casted on her.
Iris So here we can't really create some highlights because it's going to look different from the original
eye and that is not the goal here.
We're trying to make it look like she had reptile eyes from the beginning.
So what we can do is to change the blending mode from normal to multiplied.
And this will kind of burn the layer onto whatever is underneath, which in our case is the iris.
So that's looking good.
And using the levels on rugby we can kind of.
Lighten or darken it.
I can take input white out.
Somewhere around here.
So instead of this flat black color, which is a result from this multiplied, we get a lighter brown.
Next.
We want to blur this out so we don't get this sharp line.
Remember that pupils are never a cut out circle.
So grab fast box blur edit onto your left pupil.
And if you type in to to get a softer look, it's looking better for the mask.
I think we're going above her eyelid, so let me just hit em on my keyboard.
Man's path.
And position this in the right place.
One side is slanted, so you just have it this way and then copy this mask path, go to your pupil layer,
hit delete mask to paste this again and change it to intersect.
So now we updated our mask and it does not go above the eyelash stays right there.
All right.
Looking good.
So before that, she has nothing.
And then suddenly she gets those reptile eyes.
Now for the eyes.
I do want to work with the way they look.
I want to get more green in there and perhaps soften the edges by increasing our feather and mask expansion
and twice going to reduce my feather to around 14.
Keep the mask like that, and maybe we can just increase the size of our mask.
Towards each of the sides.
Let's try a more feather.
So this will give us a more natural look.
We don't need to update our pupil mask because we just stretched it from the sights.
All right.
What we can do now is to recompose our left eye's color.
Just going to remove it from the track.
That's.
Hurricane posted leave all attributes and new composition colored lift colors base.
And on this base my goal is to just darken the screen and get a cooler result.
Go to effects in presets and look for color balance.
It's looking a bit yellow, so I want to take out that warmth and replace it with the coldness that
reptiles have at this onto to your new pre comp or shadows.
We're going to introduce some blues, reduce some blue from the highlights.
And that's increased in midpoint.
GREEN Not too much, but just enough so it looks.
Reptile like this is before.
This is after.
On top of this, I'm going to create more contrast by using brightness and contrast.
Bring this above your color balance and add a small amount to your contrast.
Like 31 just so we can get the details that are visible inside the eye.
This is before or after.
Finally, let's grab another curve's adjustment added above the color.
Let's increase the tones.
Lighten up the shadows.
Something like this.
Going to bring brightness and contrast above curves and.
Based on that, I can just go back and forth with my contrast and my curves adjustment.
So you can see we still get that reflection.
But I'm trying to make this more pupil like.
Some of you bring down the highlights a bit to add some glue.
And I'll go to the Green Channel to introduce even more green to my mittens and to my highlights.
This is without the curves.
This is with the curves.
Let's reduce the brightness of our eyes looking pretty glowy.
Bring this back.
And there you go.
So now we should be getting a more darker reptile eye color.
You can always go back and change it, but I think that's pretty good for now.
So she goes from this, do this.
And that's pretty good.
I think people need to be blurred out even more.
Sort of three.
Let's try four.
It's better.
Now that's looking cool.
So now that we have this, let's work with the right eye and for the other.
I am going to give a different technique that you can use.
So instead of composing your own reptile eyeball, we're going to take a actual image of a reptile's
eye and put it inside our human subject.
I'm going to go get that image and then we can continue in the next lesson.