Lazy Eye

[Patrick86t]

Hey yall,

I'm touching up some photos of my friend's sister for her high school yearbook, and i'm having a hell of a time fixing her lazy (left) eye. I'm still pretty much a photoshop newb, but let me describe the process i've taken...

I used the lasso to select her eye, then choose select inverse, layer via copy so i have a layer that is everything except her left eye. Then i go to the background layer, select her pupil, layer via copy, put that layer in between the two layers, and then move it till it looks okay. Then i go to the background layer and fill in the rest of her eye using a combination of the airbrush tool, clone stamp, and blur tool.

I'm having the most trouble with filling in the rest of the white of her eye so that it looks convincing. I'm also having trouble correcting the lazy eye. No matter where i put it, it still looks like its focusing somewhere else. However, i'm thinking that it may also have to do with her left eye not opening as wide, which is a problem i neither have the skill nor know-how to solve.

anyway, here is the original picture, followed by my attempt



here is another picture, but my edited version was somehow lost...


any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for looking

[jrolinc]

I think one of the reasons it's not looking right is the catch lights now (in the "edited" version. They are opposite...well, you know what I mean.

I know it's tough to do, but I'm sure someone will chime in here to help.

Best of luck.

[AndrewCCM]

Liquify tool is your friend ...

[canoflan]

Originally Posted by AndrewCCM

Liquify tool is your friend ...

I think you can use a bit of the bloat tool in liquify and ensure you paint with the "unmovable" brush every where you don't want affected by the liquify movement since it is a very strong tool. Obviously your subject will look much better with an ever so slight movement with liquify, assuming you apply it right.

I would google liquify photoshop tutorials (or even "fixing a lazy eye in photoshop), or if you are a NAPP member, there should be something there to help guide you.

Youtube has so many photoshop videos, one has to address this I would think.
Pat

[sniperkittie]

I selected her left eye's iris and copied it to a new layer. It appear to need only moving about a pixel toward her right side at this resolution. The I use the color selection tool to select the lightest pixel on far left of her left eye and use a Brush to paint in toward the eyes outside corner and about two pixels of the outside of the iris. Next move the copy I made into position the pixel or so toward her right eye. Then I brush in a little more reflected light in the eye

A full resolution image would be easier to work with

[sniperkittie]

Same technique as the 1st photo. Took about 5 minutes.

[MicWayWal]

Here is my attempt to help. Copied the left eye. Moved it to a better position. Painted in the white to the outside of the eye, cloned in some hightlight of the right eye to the left eye and burned in the white just a little. 3 minutes.