TUT: BLINKING EYES

Welcome,

In this tutorail (made in Photoshop 7.0) I will try to teach you how to create the animated effect of the blinking eyes.

1. First you go get a picture of some eyes you like, for example, I took this one from the movie Memoires of a geisha.

Memoires

2. Open a new file in photoshop

New file

3. Paste and free transform (Ctrl+T) the picture of the girl in the transparent background so that it fits in to your likings.

Free transform

4. If the picture is to your likings, you need to duplicate the layer (Layer->Duplicate layer).

Duplicate layer

5. Select the copy and zoom in one of the eyes, now you are going to erease the pupils and turn it into skin. Select the Eeyedropper Tool (I) and click on the skin. Then you will get the exact skin colour.

Eyedropper Tool

6. Now this is the hard part, you have to go into detail. With the eyedropper you have the skincolour, so now you have to take a small brush a paint over the eyes. Also use the eyedroppertool to get good colour for the lashes.

Eyes closed

7. When you are done with that, you have two layers. Now here is the animation part starts, go to imageshack

Imageready

8. For your basic image you have to "hide" the upper layer. You can do this by clicking on the eye next to the image.

Layer 1

9. The first image of your animation will be with eyes open (if you don't see it click on Window->animation). Now you need to place the other image in the filmstrip.

Press

and you will get this:

Filmstrip

10. Now you need the closed eyes on the second image, go back to your layers and select only the closed eyes-layer.

Layers

Filmstrip

11. Now you need to add times in the filmstrip, otherwise she will be blinking and opening her eyes like a mental freak. For the closing eyes layer I choose something like 0.2 seconds for the opening 2 seconds.

Times

You can add more of the opening and closing the eyes, meaning that you can add more and other times, this way you avoid the robotic effect.


Final result (with some aditions ofcourse )




Anyway,

hope you have fun with it and I'm kind of curious to see some results of you .

Good luck!