Virtual Makeup – Eyeshadow

Virtual Makeover: Eyeshadow!

This tutorial will teach you how you can easily apply eyeshadow to anyone in few simple steps. Go ahead, get ready.. fireup Photoshop and open the picture you want to apply blush to. For this tutorial, you can use the below picture.

Step 1: First thing you want to do is create a new empty layer from the layers menu.

Step 2: Now, from the Tools menu, change the foreground color to a color you would like to apply as the eyeshadow. For this tutorial, I have selected the color #2790aa. Keep in mind
that this new color will smoothly blend in with the skin therefore the color you select will be creating an unique blend with texture so there will be variation of shade which also depends on the actual skin tone.
Through some experiment with different shade of colors, you will achieve to your desired color of eyeshadow.

Step 3: Select the brush tool from the Tools menu.

Step 4: Right click over your image and a popup dialogue will appear that look like this:

From this dialogue menu, scroll half way through and select a brush size from the Soft Mechanical portion (bottom half of the list). I have selected the size 35 pixel
so I can easily go over the eyeshadow area once and create the eyeshadow. Now,
go ahead and carefully draw in the eyeshadow as if drawing them in a real face, if you are using the image above, then I suggest a simple one click and dragging the brush from left to right will do the job well.
If your picture is somewhat large or very high resolution image, consider using higher brush size and repeating the procedure more than once, meaning going left to right several times to create a smoother eyeshadow.
Its okay if it gets a bit messy! We’ll clean all that excess amount later. Here is how mine looks like:

Step 5: Let’s add some texture to our eyeshadow:

Go to FILTER -> BLUR -> MOTION BLUR, on the popup menu, set the Angle to -90, distance to 20pixels (or more if you have high resolution image.. make sure to look at the preview
otherwise you might create excessive amount of blurness. Now go back to FILTER -> BLUR -> BLUR (just once) to add a small amount blur you’ll barely notice it but it helps.


Let’s create the actual texture now using the Noise filter. Go to FILTER -> NOISE -> ADD NOISE.

Amount 4% (also try 2%) and set to Gaussian. Here is how mine looks like with blur and noise added.

Step 6: Now from your layers menu, change the blending mode to “Vivid Light” with 70% Opacity level. You can try other blending option but this works the best if you want to preserve the texture of the eyeshadow.

Here is how mine looks like with all step completed…

Step 7: If you have excess color that leaked outside of the area, then you can use the eraser tool
to erase the excess but make sure you use the Soft Mechanical with smaller pixel size
around 10px or more and carefully start from furthest and work your way to closer areas.