Changing the color of someone’s eyes in a photo can be a fun and creative way to add some flair to your images. In this tutorial, we’ll be using GIMP to change the color of someone’s eyes.
First, we want to open our photograph in GIMP. Right-click on the layer and make sure to add alpha channels selected. If it’s grayed out and you can’t click it, you’re good to go. If not, go ahead and click on it.
Next, we want to create a duplicate layer. Click on the button that says “create a duplicate of the layer and add it to the image.” Then, remove the color from the entire image by going to Colors > Saturation and dragging the slider all the way to the left.
Now, right-click on the new layer and click on “add layer mask.” Choose the second option, which is “black full transparency,” and click “add.” This will remove all the grayscale but add back wherever we apply a white color.
Grab a brush and make sure the foreground color is set to white. Brush inside of the eye to remove the color so that only the grayscale area of the eye is showing. Do the same thing to the other eye.
Right-click on that layer and go to “apply layer mask.” This will finalize it.
Duplicate that layer by clicking the button that says “create a duplicate of the layer and add it to the image.” To add color to it, go to Colors > Colorize. You can adjust the hue level lever to change the color of the eyes.
If you don’t like the colors that cycle through, you can click on the colored stripe and give it an exact RGB value or HTML notation. Erase any areas of the color that bled out.
To change the color again, go back to the original layer, duplicate it again, and turn off the visibility of the one beneath that. Then, you can go back to Colors > Colorize and change the color to something different.
That’s it! Now you know how to change the color of someone’s eyes using GIMP. Join the Logos By Nick mailing list to be notified of new tutorials when they’re posted without any third-party advertisements interrupting your learning experience.