Class Project 13 – Eyes in Photoshop
Overview
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
All right, time for a class project. You might have noticed throughout this course, I sometimes call it class exercise, sometimes class project. You've probably seen that. I will try and remember to call it class projects from now on.
What I want you to do, we've gone through three different ways of doing eyes, enhancing it. Remember, dodging, burning, and increasing saturation using the Sponge Tool. That was the first one, then we made an Adjustments Levels layer. You could use curves, and then we painted those lines in.
Then in the last one, we totally faked it, we used somebody else's eyes, found a good Blending Mode, and used that to create the detail in the eye. So in your 'Exercise Files', under '10 Retouching', 'Class Project', there are these three. Work your way through all three of them. With the three different techniques, hone and practice your skills, and then share them with me.
When you do share them, I'd love to know what you did. Which technique you used, maybe mixture of both of them. I can't wait to see what you do. All right, on to the next video.