A Work in Progress: The Eyes of Truth



This guide was made for entry:
The Eyes of Truth
In Contest:
blue eye


Original image


step 1 of 14

Made a selection of the eye placed it on a black background.

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 1

step 2 of 14

Masked blue eye and applied 4 adjustment layers.

* Hue Saturation
(Saturation -50)
*Exposure (lowered)
*Gradient Map
(black to light blue)
*Curves
(Output 255, Input 69)

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 2

step 3 of 14

I wanted the white of the eye back in the image and painted it with a soft brush. Duplicate layer and transform flip vertical, blurred this layer with 30 px.
I also added some blood vessels in the white of the eye.

For the other side of the eye, just duplicate layers, flip horizontal..

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 3

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Added two water layers, both different brushes. Set the first layer on 60% and the second layer on 45% (opacity)

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 4
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Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 5

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Added the "rolling waves" and duplicated the layer two times to fill the bottom of the image. I masked out the hard lines and so that the waves overflow in each other.

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 6
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step 7 of 14

First Horse;

Used the Quick Selection Tool to select the horse.

Then Image Adjustments, desaturate after that again Image Adjustments and Invert the image.

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 7

step 8 of 14

flip to the Channels palette
then click on the top thumbnail while holding Ctrl/Cmd. Copy
and paste the result in your workfile.

Duplicated that layer and added a chrome filter to create some sort of wet edges. I merged the two layers and added two image adjustment layers.

Hue saturation (colorise!)
196-44-18
Levels
Set Blending to Luminosity at 60% and duplicate 4 times.
1x Blur 100 px Lum 25%
1x Lum 100%
1x Lum 25%
1x Hue 50%

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 8

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Turned horse 1 into a smart object and placed it.

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 9

step 10 of 14

Previous steps are the same for the second horse.

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 10

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Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 11

step 12 of 14

I used some water brushes to create some splatter.

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 12

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There is a light stripe coming from somewhere I suppose.. So I decided to put a star to make at least some sense ;-)

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 13

step 14 of 14

Added 3 color adjustment layers.

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Step 14

Final result

Creation of The Eyes of Truth: Final Result

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