Lee

Very cool, P. Two thumbs up, buddy. [righton] [righton]

Raven

This is just for a general idea for something to try. I'm sure you can improvise and come up with exactly what you want. Find or spherize/distort an image you could use within the reflection. Here I just grabbed part of an image I'd created and just used the globe which I copied and pasted into a layer. I removed the color/desaturate and used pin light mode on it. The opacity around 52%. Using transform and rotate I shifted the globe around and put it over where you have the light shining on the eyeball. On another layer I painted a white spot, made another new layer and painted another white spot over that using the #300 airbrush at 332 px size and 73%.

Maybe something along these lines might help. Giving the reflection image a distorted curve helps also give the lens area the look of curvature. If the eyeball was surrounded by eyelids and eyelashes over hanging it providing additional shadows from these it would give even more depth and realism. Using a sharper reflection image than what I have here will make the lens look shinier...just experiment. This is just an idea. Hope this helps some. It's looking great! [righton]

Red Rooster

that is really neat raven I am going to go and try that [righton]

Doc

p?tr??k,

That reflection you're trying to capture is the 'catchlight' that is what gives eyes their life. The reflection can be from a window, a lamp or a photographers flash just to mention a few.

Here's a site that gives some good examples of how those catchlights appear.
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/cg_m...&seed_id=14032

It's amazing how different a subject would look if those catchlights were not present.

Raven

[righton] Exactly = "catchlights" = great link Doc! That's the idea, just find the right image to use and convert it with a bit of distortion on the shape to suite and remove some of the color and opacity and it will work.

Give it a try too, Red Rooster --- find a pic of a window or something to use.

Silky

Sweet, thanks doc, I'm trying that out right now.! 8))

Silky

Ok, I found a good pic of a siloquet, but I'm still trying to find a suitible "catchlight" for the eye. The siloquet is to close up to be a catchlight.

Doc

Actually, that's not bad at all. Catchlights are just a reflection of the light source so in your case, the light is from a window in front of the subject and pretty close. Remember, you're showing the entire eye up very close. Try looking at it in a more natural perspective.

(pardon the poorly...and hastily done masking...and the left eye should be more to the left)

Red Rooster

nice doc :} I like pics that are all black&white but with one or 2 things colored.