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JollyPen — Eye Swirls Tutorial
Published: 2008-11-28 16:26:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 8872; Favourites: 223; Downloads: 0
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Yay, my first tutorial. Please don't bite my head off if I've got it wrong in some way, or if I haven't explained it well.I'll be happy to answer any questions you have about this - if I've not explained something well enough, just send me a note, and I'll try and go into more detail.
I've used Photoshop Elements to make this, so if it's different to yours in any way, then sorry. I hope you figure it out.
Please let me know what you think - feedback will be good! And please let me know if you've used it - I'd love to see!And I hope it helps you.
Edit: after picture can be found here: [link]
Edit II: Wow, over 1,000 views! I can't believe it! Thank you everyone for viewing this - I hope it's helped!
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Awesome tutorial. I have some stock images I can't wait to try this on. If I use your tut, I will be sure to link you
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Thank you very much! I hope it's useful!
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You're welcome! 
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Hello, just wanted to let you know that this tutorial helped with two of my deviations. Here they are
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Wow, they're both amazing - but my favourite is Rays of Gold!
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Yay! So helpful!
but one question: how do you rotate the brushes, if possible? I haven't managed to figure that part out yet. I just started using photoshop with manipulations so I dont know ^.^
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Glad you thought so!
Um, if you're using photoshop, I honestly don't remembr - I only used it on a free trial run.
If you're using GIMP, then you have to create a new brush of your own before you can rotate it. There are lots of tutorials on how to create your own brushes that can explain it better than I can, I'm afraid.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!
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Nice tutorial! (:
Worked pretty well for me, although my swirls are not as good as yours ofcourse^^.
You can see it here if you like
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Thank you very much!
Aw, I'm sure they're great. But ... practice makes perfect!
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Cool. With the help of this tutorial of yours, I was able to do this : [link]
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Wow, that's great! I'm so pleased that my tutorial helped you!
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Wow, I'm definitely going to have to get Photoshop elements. This is so cool! Thanks for making a tutorial, I was having a hard time trying to figure it out.
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You're very welcome!
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Hey, I'm glad you think so!
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I followed your tutorial, but i can't seem to get the colors of the swirls to stand out, is there something in particular that you I should be doing to bring out the colors?
Sorry, I'm new to all this. Your work really inspires me to keep trying
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Hi,
All I can think of is that you use stronger colours when you're colouring around the eye. And also make sure that when you're using the dodge tool, make sure the setting is set to 'Highlights' rather than 'Midtones' or 'Shadows'.
If this still doesn't work, write back and I'll try and find another way!
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Aww, thanks for getting back to me- I'm going to try that out right now!
Thanks again!
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hey!!! thanks for the tutorial ^_^ it really helped me a lot!!! thanks
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yah!!! thanks ^_^ btw i love all the pictures you make they're so cool!!!
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I love this tutorial, it'll definitely help with my other eye manips ^_^
I used it here [link]
Thank you very much.
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This tutorial was fabulous! I have Adobe Photo Elements 3.0 so most of your steps worked.
The only problems I had were smoothing the face out [my filters didn't have the one yours did] and making the eyes pop like yours. That was deffinitely my fault of doing this at 1 am and not being a good direction taker haha.
If I ever make one that I'm proud of, I'll deffinitely post it for you to see :]
Thank you so much!
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Wow, thank you! I'm glad that it helped you!
Don't worry about the skin smoothing thing - it's not really necessary, just a little tip I picked up.
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[link]
here I use your tutorial to training im this image
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Oh, wow. I think I might try doing this, your eye pictures are insane served with a side of awesomefries.
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Haha, thank you! I hope it helps you, and that I can see the result?
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this was heaps of help
thank you.
if you want to have a look at the picture i did with it heres the [link]
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Wow, that's even better than mine; especially the swirlies! I'm so glad my tutorial was useful to you!
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Hahaha it no way better than yours and yeah it was heaps helpful thank you again.
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Thanks for the awesome tutorial, I used part of it to do [link]
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You're welcome - I'm glad it came in handy!
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Thank you so much. I just got PSE 7.0 and this really helps. Beautiful job on the eye btw
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Thank you! And I'm glad you found it helpful. Let me know if there's anything you don't understand!
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How did you make those swirls come out of the eye so smoothly? They looks so good, I can't make mine look like that
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