Copying eyes from one photo to another.

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Hi,

I need to move some good eyes from an image onto a blinker. What's the easiest way to do this in photoshop/lightroom ?

I'm a novice so please go easy :)

Cheers,
Mike.
 
You need PS , LR does not have layers.
IN PS open both images , select ( lasoo tool)and then copy the "good" eyes, leave plenty of space to erase and feather the bits you don't want)", then close the image ( it saves getting mixed up) create a new layer on the image with the "bad" eyes and paste the good eyes onto that layer , then adjust as needed.
Have fun.
 
Crop the good eyes from the image and place on top of the blinker eyes, position to suit. You can re position the good eyes using Edit/Free Transform. Make the good eyes a layer mask and using the black or white paintbrush add or remove the parts of the good eye layer to suit.
Merge the layers and you're done.

Any questions just ask
 
I doubt this is going to end well. You've picked a hell of a task to get even close to realistic.
 
Boss said:
Maybe just me.
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I suspect it's entirely down to how much of the frame the "blinker" is filling - which we don't know from the OP. All of it and you've got your hands full. If it's one person in a large crowd it's going to be a doddle. Then there's all the circumstances in-between.
 
I feel a tutorial coming on....................
 
It helps to line up the pics if you lower the opacity on the new (replace) layer so you can see both sets of eyes at the same time (remember to put it back to 100% after) also try and find a similar angle of face, that saves fiddling it around too.
 
So guys i've got the eyes over, they are not perfect but on the final image i doubt it'll be visible as she is in a group of 4 and this is a crop of just the head, so thanks for that.

The last issue is how do i blend the skin tones where i've cropped as they are different across the two images as you can see, maybe the easier option is to take as little skin as possible over ?

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Also i'm sure it's obvious but only when you know but how do i compress the 3 layers into a final image ready to be exported ?

Thanks again,
Mike.
 
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ps A good tip for Newbie''s is Control T allows you to rotate the eye if you need to as Admiral points out.
 
mikeyw said:
how do i blend the skin tones
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A layer mask will accomplish this.

- click on your eyes layer
- click on the layer mask icon in the bottom of the layers panel (it's a rectangle with a circle in it. It's very small)
- Select the mask - you'll see it appear next to the words "layer 2"
- Select an (appropriately sized) brush from the tool palette. You can change brush size with [ and ]
- Select Black as a colour and turn the opacity down to about 25%
- Paint around the skin tones and start to blend. If you get black paint on your image it's because you've selected the image and not the mask. If the skin tones start to fade you're doing it right.

Painting BLACK will HIDE/MASK the layer you have selected (the eyes). If you make a mistake, painting WHITE will REVEAL/UNMASK the layer you have selected.

If none of this made sense, look up a video on "layer masking in photoshop" :)
 
mikeyw said:
Also i'm sure it's obvious but only when you know but how do i compress the 3 layers into a final image ready to be exported ?

Thanks again,
Mike.
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Layer/Merge Layers or Ctrl + E
 
Thanks - nearly there, just doesn't seem to be erasing anything just adding a pinkish colour both on and off layer ?

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So close - last image from a wedding shoot before i can wrap it up and sent to client :)
 
Couldn't include everything on one snip - brush details

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Boss said:
I doubt this is going to end well. You've picked a hell of a task to get even close to realistic.
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f/2.8 said:
It’s actually very easy to do.
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Boss is spot on, its very easy to, but very difficult to look realistic, its not always as simple as just swapping the eyes over, the whole shape along with the lighting can change around the eye as someone blinks. Sometimes eyebrows move as well, along with the cheek muscles.

As others have said lasso or pen and then carefully adjust and blend everything in, but at that point there is no one answer, because virtually every image is different.
 
Is the open eye on layer 2?
 
Ouch - I'd hate to have to try doing this
 
I decided to export and fix fully in LR - easiest to use the tools you are familiar with, PS great for the eye layers but proving a bit tricky for the rest of it

Thanks for all the help.
 
Here's a crop of the end result at normal viewing size, not perfect but acceptable all the same. Yes one of her eyes was slightly smaller as she had an infection so it was a bit closed.

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In my opinion that result is too crude to be acceptable. I am certain that you can do better than that with a somewhat increased skill level.
It needs a far better selection, and a massively better blending. It is most certainly doable. retouching should never be visible.
 
Sorry but they are not even close to level.
 
mikeyw said:
Here's a crop of the end result at normal viewing size, not perfect but acceptable all the same. Yes one of her eyes was slightly smaller as she had an infection so it was a bit closed.

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It looks to me like the woman next to her in glasses is also blinking
 
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