Enhancing Eyes

Hyperlink: http://foto.worth1000.com/tutorials/161755/enhancing-eyes

(1) Open your image.
(2) View Actual Pixels (Alt+Ctrl+0)
(3) Click and drag (space bar + left click and drag on mouse) to eyes

(4) Ney layer via copy – Ctrl+J

(5) Select the dodge tool, set range to midtones, set exposure to 10%, and decrease your brush size to fit inside the eye.
(6) Go over each full eye, a couple times over the whites.
(7) Select burn tool, same settings as above and this time decrease brush size to the size of pupil.

(8) Go over each pupil several times, and if you want, you can also run around the edges of the iris.

(9) Enter Quick Mask Mode (press Q).
(10) Select a soft black brush at 100% opacity.
(11) Paint both eyes "red."

(12) Exit quick mask, invert (ctrl+shift+i), right click and feather your selection by 5 pixels, and create a new layer via copy (ctrl+j).

(13) Filter -> sharpen -> unsharp mask...Amount: 20; radius 80; threshold 0 –> OK.

(14) Duplicate your unsharp mask layer we just made by dragging it down to the new layer icon...You should see a copy of that layer appear in the layers window now.
(15) Set the blend mode of that layer to Screen, and reduce opacity to 25% (or a whatever setting you think compliments the image best).

(1) Create a Layer Stamp (ctrl+alt+shift+e).
(2) Enter quick Mask mode again – This time select just the iris.
(3) Layer -> New fill layer -> Solid color...Select your color of choice.
(4) Set blend mode to color and adjust opacity as needed – 25% works pretty good.

Final Image:

Because something wrong with my Mac Photoshop CS4, I will try to work on it and upload pictures tomorrow.

Sorry for that!

Lillian Schwartz

Lillian Schwartz is best known for her pioneering work in the use of computers for what has since become known as computer-generated art and computer-aided art analysis, including graphics, film, video, animation, special effects, Virtual Reality and Multimedia. Her work was recognized for its aesthetic success and was the first in this medium to be acquired by The Museum of Modern Art. Her contributions in starting a new field of endeavor in the arts, art analysis, and the field of virtual reality have been recently awarded Computer-World Smithsonian Awards.

In the picture above named Mona/leo. The denotation is the left part of the picture is famous picture of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da vinci, and the right part is just a photo of Leonardo da vinci himself. The connotations of this picture I think is in some stories, people said the Mona Lisa is the self-portrait of Leonardo da vinci. Maybe Lillian Schwartz agreed with this point and made this picture for Saluting to Da vinci.

This is another picture from Lillian Schwartz called After Picasso.The denotation of it is the girl on the left wanted to give a baby to the man on right and the man watched the women with deep love. It seems that the man really did not want to the women disappear in his sight. There's an eye was looking the whole process. The important clue in the picture is all the things and colors give a very sad feeling to the readers. I think the connotation is the women will leave the man for some reason. Maybe is tell about a sad love story. The quick brush lines in thispicture indicate the sence of flatness with illumination of blocks of color, recalled the period of abstract expressionism

SOURCE LINK:

http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/lesson9.html

http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/images/small/schwartz2.jpg

http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/images/small/schwartz1.jpg