570 Creating wildly purple supervillain eyes

- Hey, gang. This is Deke McClellan. Welcome to Deke's Techniques. Now, if you've seen the movie Doctor Strange, you know that it features a supervillain named Kaecilius, as played by Mads Mikkelsen, who appears to have the world's most painful eye disorder. Now, this has really caught on on Youtube. There's all kinds of tutorials where people are showing you how to create variations on this effect using actual real makeup. Some very talented folks. What I'm going to do this week is show you how to create the effect inside Photoshop.

And so, I started with this stock image dude that I set against one of my mirror world backgrounds from last week and I ended up creating this final terrifying and, as I say, very painful looking effect. Here, let me show you exactly how it works. Alright, here's the final eye makeup. Just so you have a chance to see it on screen. We're going to start off inside this image, which comes to us from the dreamstime image library, about which you an learn more and get deals at dreamstime.com/deke.php.

Alright, that takes care of the URL layer. So, I'll just go ahead and throw it away. Now, you might notice in the final effect that this guy does not have any eyebrows, which is true for the character Kaecilius in Doctor Strange, as well. Which means that we need to heal those eyebrows away. And I'm going to do so on a separate layer, so I'll press ctrl + shift + n, or cmd + shift + n on the Mac, to bring up the New Layer dialogue box and I'll just go ahead and call this layer bald brows, let's say and click OK. Alright now you might be able to make the Spot Healing Brush work for your purposes, but, in my case, the image is sufficiently complicated that I need to switch to the Healing Brush tool, which gives me more control.

You also want to change the sample option, up here in the options bar, to All Layers, like so. Alright, now, I'll just go ahead and press the alt key, or the option key on the Mac, and click somewhere in the forehead in order to specify a source for my cloning. And then, I'll go ahead and increase the size of my brush by pressing the right bracket key a few times. And then, I'll just go ahead and paint over this guy's eyebrow, like so. And, notice, here inside Photoshop CC, that the healing updates on the fly as you paint. Alright, now I'm going to specify another source point by once again alt or option clicking up here on the left side of the forehead.

And then I'll just go ahead and paint away this left eyebrow. Alright, now I want to add the purplish makeup using a layer of solid color. And so, I'll start things off by going to the Window menu and choosing the Color command in order to bring up the Color panel. Then, you want to click the fly-out menu icon in the top-right corner of the panel and choose HSB Sliders. Now, I'm looking for a shade of purple, so, I'll dial in a hue value of 270 degrees. I'll crank the saturation value all the way up to 100%. And I'll take the brightness value up to 50%.

Then, you want to go to the Layer menu, choose New Fill Layer, and choose Solid Color. And I'll go ahead and call this guy purpleness, let's say. And then, click OK. At which point, you'll see that same color that you dialed in in the Color panel here inside the Color Picker dialogue box, which means we can just accept that color by pressing the enter key or the return key on the Mac. Alright, now I want to add a little bit of color variation using the Add Noise filter. And that means that I first need to convert this layer to a smart object by switching back to the rectangular marking tool, then you just want to right click any old place in the image window and choose Convert to Smart Object.

Next, go up to the Filter menu, choose Noise, and choose Add Noise. You can see that I'm adding an awful lot of noise by cranking the amount value up to 100%. I've set distribution to Gaussian. And, because I want color noise, I have the Monochromatic check box turned off. After which point, I'll click OK to accept that change. Now, I don't want this much color noise. I want to blur things together. And the best way to do that is to go to the Filter menu, choose Blur, and then choose Gaussian Blur. And I came up with a radius value of six pixels.

Now, notice, if I go to the top-left corner of the Layers panel and change the blend mode from Normal to Linear Light, that we get this wonderful interaction between the model shades of purple and the photographic image in the background. Alright, I don't need this filter mask cluttering up my panel, so I'll just go ahead and right click on that white thumbnail and choose Delete Filter Mask. Now, I'm looking for a pretty rough outline. We're looking for this effect right there, which means that I can paint it using the Quick Selection tool.

And so, I'll just go ahead and switch back to my image so far. I'll select the Quick Selection tool from the fly-out menu. Then, go up to the options bar and turn on Sample All Layers and also turn on the Auto-Enhance check box. That way you'll get better results. Alright, now I'm going to zoom in on my image a little bit. And then, I'll start painting a selection outline, like so. Now, you don't have to be all that careful and you definitely don't have to get the same results as I do. But I am going to make sure that I am selecting some of this flesh over here on the left-hand side of the face.

Although, not quite that much. And so, if you go too far, just press the alt key, or the option key on the Mac, and paint away the selection like so. And, now, I'm going to paint over the right eye, as well, and paint down to about here, let's say. We don't want to go over the bridge of the nose, so, I'm going to press the alt key, or the option key on the Mac, and paint some of this stuff away, as well. And maybe paint in here. So, again, if you want to add to the selection, just paint. If you want to delete from the selection, press and hold the alt key or the option key on the Mac.

And, I'm going to take this brow downward, like so, so that we can get a shadow above his eye. I don't want to go that far, however. So, I'll paint some of this a little bit back in. And this is looking pretty good. I might just click right about there. And then, I might alt drag just a little more down here. That's an option drag on the Mac. And, once I get something that I like, I'll go ahead and convert the selection outline to a layer mask by dropping down to the add layer mask icon at the bottom of the layers panel and clicking on it like so.

Alright, now, obviously, I don't want the eyes to be purple. And so, I'll zoom in some more, reduce the size of my cursor, and paint inside the eye like so. I want to get this little fleshy morsel right there. I want to keep the flesh, though, inside the selection, so I'll alt or option paint some more. And then, I'll paint right there. So, you're going to do a little backing and forthing to get the eye the way you want it. But, in time, you should be able to paint it in. And so, I'll go ahead and alt or option drag right there to paint away some of that eye.

I need to paint some more back in. Maybe a little bit there, as well. Feel free to click instead of dragging, if you like. And then, with the layer mask still active here inside the Layers panel, tap the D key in order to instate the default colors, which makes the foreground color white and the background color black. And then press ctrl + backspace, or cmd + delete on the Mac, in order to fill the selection with black, which reveals the eye. And then you can press ctrl + D, or cmd + D on the Mac, in order to deselect the image.

And, if you want to clean things up just a little bit, go ahead and grab the brush tool and then, if I were to paint with white... Well, I would mess things up, wouldn't I? So, I'll go ahead and press ctrl + Z, or cmd + z on the Mac, to undo that. And then, I'll press the X key to swap my foreground and background colors so my foreground color is now black. And I'll just go ahead and paint this region in. And I am using a soft brush, by the way, which is going to work out just fine. Now, I'll tap the X key in order to make my foreground color white once again. And I'll paint in some of this area of skin around the eye.

Alright, now, let's repeat the process for the left-hand eye. I'll go ahead and press the W key to switch back to the quick selection tool. And then, I'll paint in this region right here across the iris, like so. That ends up selecting too much of the eye, but that's okay, because now I can press the alt key, or the option key in the Mac, and paint across that lower eyelid, which paints away too much of the selection. In any event, once it gets something that I like, I'll just go ahead and press ctrl + backspace, or cmd + delete on the Mac, in order to get rid of the purple inside of the eye.

Then, I'll press ctrl + D or cmd D on the Mac to deselect the eye. I'll go ahead and switch back to that brush tool. Again, you can get that by pressing the B key. I'll tap the X key, so that I'm painting with black, which will allow me to paint this area of the eye away right there. And then, I'll paint up and into the top of the eye like so until everything looks the way I want it. Alright, now, I'll just go ahead and press ctrl + 0, or cmd + 0 on the Mac, to zoom out. And, at this point, I decided I wanted a little bit of darkness around the eye and I'm going to achieve that darkness by adding a couple of layer effects.

So, I'll go and click on the effects icon down on the bottom of the Layers panel and I will start with an Inner Glow effect. Just because it says glow doesn't mean it's got to be bright. It can be dark, like so. So, I've gone ahead and set the color, right here, to black. I'll go ahead and cancel out, 'cause I've done that in advance. And I'll set the Blend Mode to Multiply. I've got an Opacity value of 77% and, as you can see, the Size is set to 40 pixels. And so, having done that, I'll go ahead and click on Inner Shadow to select it and turn it on, as well.

This time you can see that, once again, the color is black, the Blend Mode is Multiply. I've got an Opacity of 100%. The Angle's 90 degrees, so the light is coming straight down. I've got a distance value of 20 pixels, a choke of 0%, and a size value of 30 pixels, which produces this effect, here. After which, I'll go ahead and click OK in order to accept that change. Alright, again, just to save room in the Layers panel, I'm going to collapse this layer right here. So, I'm no longer seeing its smart filters or its layer effects.

And, notice, that I've created a couple of other layers in advance here. There's this reflections layer, which adds a couple of reflections inside of the iris. And I'm just going to go ahead and pop that layer up a little bit. And I also have this shape layer up at the top of the stack, which adds this cult-like marking to our supervillain's forehead. And that's how you add modeled purple makeup around a shadowy supervillain's eyes here inside Photoshop. If you're a member of lynda.com, I have a follow-up movie in which we take that guy with his purple eye makeup and we add what I'm calling the crystallized skin texture.

So-called because it relies, in part, on a variation of crystallize, which is one of the oldest filters inside Photoshop. If you're waiting for next week, we're going to take this text and turn it into a full-blown embroidery effect once again inside Photoshop. Deke's Techniques each and every week. Keep watching.