Wonderful example of Photoshop: Open your Heart window

Filter Required: cloud, color halftone

The eyes are the windows of the soul and are the subject of many artists ' creations. The diversity of creative methods makes the final effect different, however, it is precisely because of this brings us a variety of artistic enjoyment. Below we also around the eyeball for artistic creation, make crystal clear crystalline effect.

1. Start Photoshop CS, create a white-bottomed document with a square, set the foreground color to blue (r:0, g:162, b:255), and then execute the filter → render → cloud command and apply the cloud filter.

2. Execute "filter → Blur → radial blur" command, in the radial Blur dialog box that pops up, set the Blur method to zoom, quality to good, quantity to 100, and then click OK to apply the cloud filter to the image as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Applying the cloud filter to the image

3. Create a new layer, fill it with white, to perform the filter → noise → add noise command, select Monochrome in the Add Noise dialog box, set distribution to average distribution, quantity to 144, and then apply the Add noise filter again to the image with a radial blur Filter and set the blending mode of the new layer to color darker, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 Applying the add noise and radial blur filters

4. Merge all the layers, select the "Elliptical Marquee" tool, draw a suitably sized round selection in the center of the image, and copy and paste to produce the iris portion of the eyeball. Then use the gradient tool to fill the background layer with a radiant gradient of white to lavender (r:176, g:179, b:220).

5. Create a new layer and use the elliptical marquee tool to draw a round selection in the center of the image. And fill with black, as the pupil of the eyeball, and then execute the "filter → Blur → Gauss blur" command, in the "Gaussian Blur" dialog box set "radius" of 5.8, create a feather around the pupil effect.

6. The pupil and the iris layer merge together, using the "Dodge" and "deepen" tools to smear on the eyeball, create a high light and shadow, so that the eye produces stereo effect, and then copy the eyeball, and put the copy on the bottom, and then perform the "image → adjust → reverse" command to make the refraction projection of the eyeball. Finally apply the hue/saturation command to adjust the drop shadow color to light blue, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 Final effect