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Fabricating the highlights in the pupils

Fabricating the highlights in the pupils - Photoshop Tutorial

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Fabricating the highlights in the pupils

I've saved my progress as far as Nicely refined masks.psd and everything looks hunky-dory except we're missing an obvious ingredient in these eyes and that's the pupils. If you take a look at the Final Na'vi here, we've got these big ginormous pupils because they live in this misty gloomy world I guess and their eyes need a lot of light in order to cast an image onto the retina. So, let's switch back to nicely refined masks and as opposed to using the original girl's original pupils which are of no use to us because they were so tiny and they're all squished now anyway. I just went ahead and drew a couple of black circles and I did that by the way I'll go ahead and turn on that new pupils layer so you can see it. I'll click on the new pupils layer to make it active and all I did, this one's definitely not rocket science, I chose the Elliptical Marquee tool, I went ahead and drew a circle, so I'm pressing the Shift key in order to constrain the shape of that ellipse, I press the…

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