Changing Eye Color

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This tutorial will show you how to change someone's eye color naturally. I'm starting with this image:

1. Take the freehand selection tool. Match my settings:
Type: Point to point
Feather: 5
Smoothing: 2

2. Select the colored part around the pupil. Because of the feathering, it will look like you selected the pupil when you're done, but you really didn't. Your selection should look something like this:

3. Now go to adjust >> hue and saturation >> colorize. I want to make her eyes pink, so I used these settings:
Hue: 237
Saturation: 96

4. It looks natural, but I think I want to make mine a little brighter. So I'm going to go to adjust >> brightness and contrast >> brightness/contrast and change both settings to 60. Now it looks like this:

5. Now just do the other eye and your done! Try experimenting with different settings to see what you come up with. If you're too lazy, I've done some experimenting myself. Here are so of the combinations I've come up with. If you want the eyes to look natural, only do the first step. If you want them bright, do both steps. Note that you'll get different results depending on the person's original eye color.

Blue

Colorize: 147, 99
Brightness/Contrast: 70, 80

Gold

Colorize: 32, 86
Brightness/Contrast: 80, 80

Green

Colorize: 90, 108
Brightness/Contrast: 60, 60

Aqua

Colorize: 115, 110
Brightness/Contrast: 60, 60

Purple

Colorize: 198, 110
Brightness/Contrast: 70, 70

Red

Colorize: 0, 128
Brightness/Contrast: 60, 60

Brown

Colorize: 22, 45
Brightness/Contrast: 70, 80