Gradient Hue/Saturation

Is there anyway to get a gradient effect similar to the hue/saturation effect, so if i wanted to use an eye to do this, i can have 2 different colours fading into eachother to make say a blueish green eye. Ill look for pic as example.


maybe not that hardcore, but i would just kind of like a gradient colour overlay of it


thats what i have done so far

and i would like to apply it to this image

1. Draw a path around the eye areas you want gradient applied to.
(Path = 'Pen Tool (P)' with OptionsBar 'paths' feature active.)
2. Turn the path into a selection.
(Right click on the path choose 'make Selection')
3. Create a new alayer.
4. Select the 'Gradient Tool (G )' on the Tollbar.
5. Then set the Foreground Color & Background Color to your desired colors to reflect the two tones in the Gradient.
6. Set the Gradient style to 'Linear or Radial' up on the Options Bar.
7. Then click and drag inside the selection to create your gradient.
8. Finally, adjust the Blend Mode &/or Opacity of this gradient layer.

that doesnt seem to work too well, its all drowned out colour because of the opacity, or shouold i just be selecting the iris and not the retina?

ahh - you seem to have ignored step one then

selection around the eye areas/iris - whatever it is your trying to achieve.

Better yet, there may be something in this tutorial for you. Hope it works out.
Others may have a another solution for you also.

[QUOTE=heathrowe]1. Draw a path around the eye areas you want gradient applied to.
(Path = 'Pen Tool (P)' with OptionsBar 'paths' feature active.)
2. Turn the path into a selection.
(Right click on the path choose 'make Selection')
3. Create a new alayer.
4. Select the 'Gradient Tool (G )' on the Tollbar.
5. Then set the Foreground Color & Background Color to your desired colors to reflect the two tones in the Gradient.
6. Set the Gradient style to 'Linear or Radial' up on the Options Bar.
7. Then click and drag inside the selection to create your gradient.
8. Finally, adjust the Blend Mode &/or Opacity of this gradient layer.

[/QUOTE]

Hey heathrowe, I'm just curious about something. Why do you chose to turn the path into a selection? Is there a specifc reason?

I'm not questioning your method because I know for a fact it works fine. I'm just asking because when performing similar tasks I tend to keep my path layers as vector paths whenever possible. For example in this case I might use the path to make a gradient fill layer with a vector mask.

Of course depending on the image we may not want the sharp edges of a vector mask and in those cases I'd either rastorize that layer or use a standard (bitmap) layer mask in conjunction with the vector mask to soften the edges.

(btw, kudos for all your tutorials. They are quite excellent.)

That doesn't turn the path into a selection, that justs makes a selection based on the path.

Well, yeah, I understand that. I just technically misstated it.

hey Outpatient, just the first thing that came to mind, at the time of writing it.

I normally work with Layer Masks & Vector Masks as well.
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