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Changing Eye Color in Photoshop Without Making It Look Ridiculous
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Changing Eye Color in Photoshop Without Making It Look Ridiculous

Client retouching jobs have a funny way of surfacing requests you’ve never actually practiced. Someone hands you a portrait and casually mentions, “Oh, can you also make the eyes green?” and suddenly you’re Googling at 11pm from a corner booth at your local coffee shop hoping nobody notices you’re sweating over something that’s supposed to be simple. Eye color changes sound trivial until you try one and end up with something that looks like a Halloween costume filter.

Paint Over It: The Lazy-Smart Way to Recolor Hair in Photoshop
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Paint Over It: The Lazy-Smart Way to Recolor Hair in Photoshop

There’s a certain kind of client request that makes every retoucher pause before responding: “Can you make the hair a different color?” It sounds simple. It is not always simple. I’ve gone down the channel-masking rabbit hole, spent twenty minutes wrestling with Select and Mask, and once produced what I can only describe as a hair-shaped disaster. So when I came across this Jessica Kobeissi tutorial on transforming portrait photos, specifically recoloring dark hair to a vivid pink, I was relieved to see a method that actually respects the fact that most of us are working against a deadline.