May 16, 2008 04:11 PM EDT
(Updated: May 16, 2008 08:14 PM EDT)
It's a rainy day, so I'm indoors. I decided to re-shoot my eye following some suggestions from Heather W (open your eye wide as if in surprise when you take the shot) and some trial and error of my own (turns out the best way to do it was with flash). Then I played in Photoshop. These are the results. I'm thinking I'll switch among them for my icon. What do you think?
#1 involved minimal Photoshop work - I desaturated a bit on the flesh tones and lightened and
juuuust barely upped the saturation on the iris. It really is close to what I see when I look in the mirror:
#2 I amped up the saturation on the iris to give that glowing eyes look:
#3 is basically shot #1 with everything but the iris converted to b&w:
#4 is definitely the "aliens among us" look:
HOLD THE PRESSES!!!!!!! I have a candidate #5, using a Photoshop layers process that I love but forgot to use with this. This one I like best of all:

So whaddaya think?
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Comments: 6
#4 is just plain creepy.
You look scared or startled. I feel like I am waiting for the theme music to start up so I know something scary is about to happen ;)
Awesome edit jobs Roy~
Photoshop is addictive is it not? heh
We still need to convince legions of eyes to join up bwhaha