Photoshop Tutorial - Rainbow Eye Effect and General Editing

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I searched online for stock images of eyes and eventually found this one. I chose this one because I felt that it showed the eye nicely, was large and the girl wasn't wearing too much make up or had editing done to the picture already. I pasted in into Photoshop as a new layer.

After placing it into Photoshop, I began to use the Clone Tool and the Patch Tool around the skin in particular. In some places, you could see little bumps in her skin, so I used the Patch Tool to get rid of that and make the skin seem flawless. Using the Clone Tool, I erased the slight bag under her eye, to exaggerate the idea of this girl's skin being perfect.

After correcting the skin around the eye, I began to focus on the eye itself. I wanted to enhance her make up and make it slightly darker as I felt that it would go well with the final image I wanted to produce. I selected the Burn Tool and set it to 'Midtones' and '67%'. The reason I chose this is because I didn't want it to darken the image too much, just enough so you can notice that she has make up on her. I outlined the eye, where the little bit of make up already was and just generally darkened it up. I also went around the lashes a little bit to make them appear darker also. After cleaning up her make up, I selected the Dodge Tool and had it set it to 'Midtones' and '30%' as I wanted to use this on the whites of the eyes to make them appear brighter and therefore more appealing. I went over the whites of the eyes a few times with this tool until I reached the desired effect.

I then moved onto actually applying the rainbow colour to the eyes. I made a new layer and then selected the Brush tool and set it to size 150 with 40% hardness on it so that it blurred in together nicely instead of being harsh edges. I then went through the colours of the rainbow, painting them onto the eye in even quantities until the whole thing was covered.

After applying the colour, I then went onto Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set it to around 40. As you can see, the colours blur into each other, making the rainbow effect more authentic.

I then went to the layer with the colours on and set it to 'Colour'. This allowed the colours to seep through onto the layer underneath without completely blocking out the underneath picture. I then went back onto the layer with the eye on it and went back to the Burn Tool. I took it around the outside of the iris to define it. Once I was happy with that, I went to the Dodge Tool and brought it to the inside of the iris, lightening the brightest bits of the eye to give it more definition.

After I was happy with the outcome of the eye, I went back to cleaning up the image. I installed some eyelash brushes off the internet and made a new layer. I adjusted the brushes to the right size and then place them onto the image. I placed just one pair on the top and two on the bottom, as there was less bottom eyelashes compared to the top ones. I went back to the bottom layer and burned around the eye a little bit more as I felt her make up needed to be a bit darker to contrast against the rainbow eye. I also selected the skin around the eye and turned the brightness up a little bit so that it was generally brighter. I also turned the saturation down as I wanted it to appear more white.

And this was my end result.