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Fiber Eyes
Tutorial
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In this tutorial I will attempt to take you through step by step how I
made the eyeballs you can see in the title.
I used Paint shop pro7
and KPT's5 Fiber Optix to make them, but if you don't have Kpt's then you
could easily use another image or filter for the iris's.
The steps below are meant as a guide you don't have to follow them to
the letter, there are several places where you could experiment with your
own settings.
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download, duplicate, copy, upload to another server, or distribute it in
any other way, except in the form of a link to Tutorial Index page. You may however Print
a personal copy out for ease of use while following it.
Ok now
on with the tutorial:
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Open
new image, 200x200, background transparent.
New layer, name eyeball.
Select your preset shapes tool  ,
choose button035, retain style=checked, create as
vector=unchecked, drag out an eyeball shape. |
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you will notice the eyeball has a dark grey outline, we need to
get rid of it:
Change to your selection tool 
set it to Rectangle, anti alias unchecked. drag out a large
rectangle around your eyeball then place your mouse cursor
inside the selection and click once to close the selection
around you eyeball. |
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Now got to selections../modify../Contract..
Number of pixels=1
Next.... Selection../Invert..  ,
then cut  .
Deselect, the grey outline should now be gone :-) |
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Just one more thing to do to the eyeball before we move
on... the shadow is a little dark so were going to lighten
it :-)
Choose your retouch tool  ,set
it to round, retouch mode=Lighten RGB..
using a large brush, stroke around the darker shading on your
eyeball to lighten it slightly. |
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Iris.. new layer, name it Iris,
Selection tool ,
set to circle, place your cursor in the center of your eye and
drag out a fairly large circle for your iris, now hold down the ctrl
key and drag out another circle inside the first one, |
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You are now ready to color the iris :-)
go to your plugins and select KPT5's FiberOptix...I'm not going
to give you any settings here! just play around with the
settings and gradients until you come up with an effect you like
;-), tip: try some noise
for an interesting effect. when
your happy click OK. |
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Do not deselect! make a new layer, go to..
effects../3d effects../drop shadow..
set color to white,
vertical & horizontal= -1
opacity=100, blur=5 ...OK,
still do not deselect! make new
layer, name it shading... go to.. effects../3d
effects../cutout..
set color to black,
vertical & horizontal= -3
opacity= 40, blur= 15 ...OK,
Leave the selection!
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go to.. selections../invert.. make your eyeball
layer active and using your paint brush with paint set to black
paint the inner circle.
If you want to make more
eyes after you've finished this one, I recommend you save your
selection,
go to selection../save to alpha channel.. click ok, name
your selection Iris click ok again, you may now deselect!
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optional: using your retouch tool set to soften mode, on a
small brush size, make sure your iris layer is active and just
lightly go around the very outside edge to soften a little. |
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new layer, Now add a
couple of highlights :-) you can place these wherever you want
or use my settings on the right.
You're Finished!
all that remains to do is..
Layers../ merge../merge visible.. copy and paste
as new image. you can now save your newly created eye as a picture
tube! file/export/picture tube.. name it and press
ok. your eye will then be available in the drop down menu of
your picture tubes to use whenever you need it.
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Make
more eyes!
If you now undo the layer merge on your main image you can
easily make more eyes now by simply switching off your iris
layer, make new layer call it Iris2, (make sure the new layer is
above the eyeball but below all your shading) load your iris
selection from the alpha channel, selections../load from
alpha channel.. and apply Kpt's fiber optix. deselect,
remember to soften the edge of your new iris if you want to
blend it a little. layers../merge../merge visible.. copy
& past as new image.
You now have another eye! you can keep doing this as often
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| Thank you for bearing with me
and making it to the end of this tutorial:-) I would love to know
how you get on with it so please drop me a line |
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Bye for now &
Happy creating
~June~
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