I've been asking my wife how to apply make-up. She thinks I've gone over the edge! Anyway, I think this digital makeup thing is kinda fun, so I'm tossing it out there for those who may want to play.

I used three paths for each eye. One path followed the fold just above the eye lashes. I stroked the path with a soft black brush, blurred, and adjusted opacity to taste. The second path was above the first, but below the eyebrow. I used a larger brush and stroked with a pastel green. I blurred the layer and set it to color mode. The third path was for the eye liner. Small black brush, blur, set a fairly low opacity.

Cheers

Great tip, JH! And well done. I can't wear eye makeup because it always gets in my contact lenses and drives me nuts.

Just noticed a fantastic little tutorial on eyelashes. Here's my first attempt with one of the brushes included in the tutorial.

http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=287

A tip of the hat to the author, Ruud van Doorn.

im not at home with my photoshop right now and i happend not to bring my mac with me. sooo i will be getting back to this, however i am very excited!!!!

I had alot of fun, what do you pros think?? brown or green eyes??

www.myspace.com/kissofglamour

I'm no pro, but I vote for green.

Definitely brown. Green looks like those terrible tacky colored contacts some people wear.

Thanks for the link. It's an easy and effective tutorial.

Stosh

Eye shadow - not usually my domain.

Had to try though.

Selected the relevent areas in quick mask with a very soft brush.
new layer via copy the a gradiant map adjustment layer.
Could have chosen any gradient but this looked OK to me.
Oh yeah it was very quick as well.

Peter

Here is my version

Here is my version.

Excellent version, CathyH. I see that you dodged the lower left on each iris -- I'm making a mental note!

CathyH, Wow. That really looks great!

I'm really still very new to Photoshop (using CS3 and love it!) Can anyone recommend a tutorial on how to do the eyeshadow like shown here? Fabulous job by the way CathyH!!

Thanks for the complement, jhpearce, Dave, and mom22seans.
I did dodge the lower left hand corners and I also burned the outer edge of the iris.
Here is a link to a tutorial that show how to apply the make up.
http://www.dphotojournal.com/photoshop-tutorial-apply-eye-make-up/

Ok, here's my first attempt ... touched up the rest of it quite a bit also trying not to make it look too overly done... (hoping I do the attachments correctly!...)

One more, just for the heck of it. I added lashes on the bottom, eyeliner, and three layers of eye shadow (black, yellowish, greenish). Not crazy about my color choices for the eye shadow, but I'm a bit... umm... inexperienced in such matters.

Nice job! I'm having a hard time getting the blending down (can't get my own make up to blend either! LOL)

I do have one other quick question though. Using the tutorial CathyH recommended, when I input the same values for the color that the tutorial suggests, I get a different color & color #. Is this because I'm using CS3 Extended? Or am I doing something else wrong? I do have my layer mode set to "color" but I can never quite get the hue I'm going for. I tried switching Color Libraries also... anyone know how to set that back to which ever one the default was? :blush:

Using the tutorial CathyH recommended, when I input the same values for the color that the tutorial suggests, I get a different color & color #. Is this because I'm using CS3 Extended? Or am I doing something else wrong? I do have my layer mode set to "color" but I can never quite get the hue I'm going for. I tried switching Color Libraries also... anyone know how to set that back to which ever one the default was? :blush:

Not sure about your color values, but I know that I've mistakenly put RGB values into the CMYK or HSB input boxes. When I'm copying a color, I like to use the hex value which goes into the bottom # box. So, using the tutorial as an example, try plugging-in 00448f as the hex value and you should see a nice blue.