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Cyborg Eyepiece.
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Cyborg Eyepiece.
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A simple way to make a cyborg eye thingy.
Pick a photo of someone.
I’m using my son Thing1
(He’s
more of a ‘weebot than a ‘wobot’, but that’s okay).
The more the subject is facing the camera the better.
Straight on is ideal.
Figure A.
Figure
A.
Step 1. Step 1. Create a new document 800 x 800. - 180 dpi.
(Unless you prefer to work on the original)
Step 2. Step 2. Create
a new layer. (Shift + Ctrl + N).
Re-name the layer to “Eyepiece1”
Step 3. Step 3. Grab
the ‘Custom Shape tool’ (U) 
and
select the “circle frame” shape from the pull down
menu.
Figure B.
Figure
B.
Note: If you don’t see that shape,
click the arrow on the
‘shape’ drop-down (Figure C. see below), and go to
‘Load Shapes’ browse to the “Custom Brushes” folder.
(program files < Adobe < Adobe Photoshop < Presets
> Custom shapes. Select
“All”.
Figure C.
Step
4. Set colors to default (D), then draw a perfect
circle
with the ‘circle frame’ shape by holding “Shift” and
dragging. Figure D
Figure
D.
Step 5. Go to <
layer < layer style < bevel and emboss
Use
these settings (Figure
E).
Figure E.
Select the contour box as well as the bevel and emboss.
Use the default settings for “contour”.
Now you should
have something that looks like Figure F.
Figure F.
Step 6.
Duplicate the layer “Eyepiece1”
(either from
the ‘Layers’ menu, or by dragging the ‘Eyepiece1’
layer to the ‘Create New Layer” icon 
Rename
the new layer from “Eyepiece1 copy” to “Eyepiece2”
Step
7. With the “Eyepiece2’ layer active, go to layer styles
,
and select ‘Bevel and Emboss’. Go
to the ‘Contour’
sub-style in ‘Bevel and Emboss’, and change the contour
to “Ring Double” –Make sure you have “Anti-Alias”
checked.
See Figure G.
Figure
G.
Step
8. Still on Layer “Eyepiece2”
hit ‘CTRL + t’ to transform
the object. Holding ‘Shift +
Alt’ grab one of the corner
‘transform points’ and drag inward to shrink the second
part of the eyepiece. Figure H.
Figure
H.
Step
9. Hide all layers except for “Eyepiece1” and
“Eyepiece2”
Click the eye 
next to a layer to hide it. Make layer
“Eyepiece1”
or “2” active, and “Merge
visible”
layers (Shift + CTRL + E).
Step
10. Create a new layer .
CTRL + click on the remaining
“Eyepiece” layer. To load a selection
of the eyepiece.
Step
11. Hit (D) to set default colors. While still in the new layer,
hit CTRL + backspace to fill the selection with white.
Do not deselect yet.
Step
12. Go to < Filter < Noise < Add Noise.
Use the settings
Figure I. Now change that
layer’s blending mode to ‘Overlay’
Figure
I.
Step13.
Merge the new overlay-ed noise layer down to the
“Eyepiece” layer.
(CTRL-E).
This is what you should have thus far.
FIGURE J.
Step 14. Create a new layer called
“Glass”. And make sure
it is below the “Eyepiece” layer. Figure K.
Figure K.
Step15. On the “Glass” layer, make a circular marquee
(holding
shift to make it perfect), a little bigger than the opening
to the eyepiece. Figure L
Figure
L.
Step
16. Hit (D), then (X) to set your colors to white
(foreground)
and black (background).
Grab the gradient tool 
,
and
set it to ‘Radial Gradient’ and use the ‘Foreground to
Background’
setting. Figure M.
Figure
M.
Step
17. Using the radial gradient tool on the “Glass” layer,
drag
the gradient from near the center (a little toward the top left)
of the selection, to the lower right. To get this.
Figure N.
Figure
N.
Step
18. Adding scan lines (if you already have a defined
scan line
pattern, you can skip this step. Create
a new layer called
“Pattern”. Zoom in to 1600%.
Select the ‘Pencil’ tool.
Make sure the brush selected is the 1 pixel brush.
Now
draw 3 black pixels down, and 3 white pixels below that.
CTRL + click the pattern layer to load the selection, and
now go to <Edit < Define Pattern. Figure
O. After defining
the pattern, you can delete the layer “pattern”.
Figure
O.
Step
19. Create a new layer Shift + CTRL + N.
CTRL + click on the
“Glass” layer to load the selection. Now
on the new layer
(Layer
1), go to < Edit < Fill. Select
“Pattern” in the ‘Use’
field, then select the scan line pattern you just created from the
‘Custom Pattern’ field..
Step
20. Change the layer blending mode on “Layer 1”
(scan line layer)
to “Overlay”, and lower the opacity to around 30%.
Now merge
this layer down onto the “Glass” Layer, CTRL + E.
Step
21. On the “Glass” layer, hit CTRL + U to open the ‘Hue
and
Saturation’ adjustment. Click
colorize, and pick a color for your glass.
Step
22. Duplicate the layer “Eyepiece” (drag it to ).
CTRL + click one of the “Eyepiece” layers to load the selection.
Now
activate the bottom “Eyepiece” layer.
Step
23. Hit (D) to set default colors, and hit ALT + backspace to
fill the
selection with black..
Step 24. Deselect. Go to > filter > blur > gaussian blur. Figure P.
Figure
P.
Step
25. Now do a CTRL + T to shrink the blurred eyepiece
a bit to
add a shadow to the inside, on the glass. Now reduce the
opacity of that layer to around 80%.
Step
26. Now, merge the two eyepiece layers, and the glass layer
together CTRL + E.
Step
27. Now either drag the eyepiece layer to your
photo, (or activate
the photo layer if you’re working in the original image).
Step 28. Now CTRL + T on the eyepiece to fit it to the face. Figure Q.
Figure
Q.
Step
30. Now duplicate the eyepiece layer, and fill the
bottom eyepiece layer
with black (CTRL + click, (d), ALT + backspace. Deselect
it.
Now add a fairly light gaussian blur to it.
I used a radius of 5
Step
31. Do a CTRL + T to expand it beyond the non-blurred eyepiece
layer to give it a drop shadow around the entire eyepiece.
Change
the opacity of the shadow layer to your liking. Figure R.
Figure
R.
Some Extra things I did.
< Image < Adjust < Perspective
on the eye piece to narrow it a bit
on the side, for a better fit.
My results:
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I
used
a custom brush around the outside of the eyepiece to look like There
are better ways to do this (to make it more photo realistic, If
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