In honor of the upcoming premier of “Twilight”, I thought I’d share a technique in honor of the book/movie. With four images, I composited them together to make one image that kind of plays homage to the series. Here’s the play off:
The seperate images are of the “vampire”, wolf, moon and forest. There’s a lot that goes into photos like these and the more time you spend on the tiny details, the more authentic they look. I’ll tell you right now that I spent minimal time editing and adding the wolf. At any rate, these next few tutorials will break down the general methods of photo manipulation. Keep in mind, there are a hundred different methods to do the same action, so find what works for you. What is explained here might not work exactly right for you, but it’s always worth it to learn another method.
Let’s focus on the eyes.
Very, very easy, though it works best with light colored eyes. All you need to do is use the burn tool.
You can play with the range
to see which will get you the best result.
Zoom in (command +) and use a small brush over the iris.
*Note, the photo on the right has also been filtered with a diffuse glow. To do this, simply select the layer, go to Filter > Filter gallery. Diffuse glow is under the Distort folder.
