[badassfeline]

EDITED

The original was a single image tute, so now i have re-made it. Here goes

1. First Open your picture. Im using this one royalty free one from http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtm



2. then add a new layer, and click the quickmask icon You may want to zoom in here.




3. select a round fuzzy brush thats just a bit smaller than than the iris and gently erase the mask over both Irises until there is no mask showing



4. unclick the qmask and see if you are happy with it



5. Choose a colour. I have picked 00c600.

6. Bucket fill the selection. go to select > None



7. Change the Layer Mode to either "colour" or "hue", depending on the effect you like best. If you want it vibrant, choose colour and play with the opacity settings untill you are happy.





8. Just use the smudge tool to gently feather the edges and create a natural look.

9. If its looking good, then merge the layer down.



10. save your image.

Finished results:

[fencepost]

Very nice, BAF! Thanks for all your hard work and effort.

Glad to see you used a "large font" :w: (inside joke)

Art

[badassfeline]

Thankyou so much for the compliment.! :l:
Well, you know me Art. Blind as a Bat!
And yes, it did take me a long time. :o: phew these tuts are hard work. i take my :m: off to all those who spend so much time on them!

[swmiller6]

Very nice tutorial.... I am sure it will be very useful...

swmiller6

[badassfeline]

Thanks! I was hoping the people who are new to GIMP and photomanip will find it a good first step. :w:

[Time]

Wonderful tutorial. Just what I needed. Thanks sooo much :l:

The image:



The recolored one:

[badassfeline]

Ace! Im glad it did help someone! That was worth all the effort! Good Job BTW! :w:

[Kiko]

its not there anymore and this is what i've been looking for, for like ... a long time... :s:

[LadyX]

it says file not found :s:

[badassfeline]

This post has been edited to a split image tute now as apposed to a single image one. Sorry for the inconvenience. I didnt think anybody cared enough to miss it. :w:

[meme]

thx

[+-HaWk-+]

HOLY AWESOMENESS!!!! :o:

[AngryChinchilla]

thanks for the great TUT

[sydney]

cool tut, thanx for sharing! It works for hair, too, if you feather the edges. :w:

[barracca]

AWSOME!

[badassfeline]

Why thankyou all. Im glad i re-did it now. Good work there from everybody..

Sidney - yes it does work with hair too.

[barracca]

is it just my Gimp or is Quickmask Pretty Tempremental?

Or is there something im not doing>?

all that seems to happen is that when i unclick Quick mask, it it just disapears and i dont have any selected area? Sometimes i do, and sometimes i dont. im doing exactly the same thing as i always do but this happens quite frequently.

[Otto]

Thanks!
This is the first tutorial I'm able to follow :-)

But it's pretty boring and non-accurate for hair, for example. Isn't it better to use that vector tool (B key - sorry, non-english version).

[Nellas_Unna]

I can't get it to work. I got up to the quick mask and that's all. My gimp won't let me bucket fill the images. Am I doing something wrong?

Nellas_Unna

[unseen]

I did a quicker ver, path the eye and go colour balance :l:
Your version is better though :w: