Eyes (3.21 hrs)

Irises

Make Eyes Sparkle

Duplicate layer (or MERGE TO TOP)
Filter – High Pass bring up radius where you can see eye detail but minimal colour
Image – Adjustments – Desaturate
Add Black Layer Mask
Brush, white, 0% hardness, 100% opacity
Brush over coloured part of eye
Choose layer blend mode (order of intensity):

Soft Light
Overlay
Linear Light

Adjust layer opacity to suit

Brighten Eyes

Curves Adjustment Layer
RGB - drag top 3rd up a little drag bottom 3rd down a little
Red – drag down a little
Blue – drag up a little
Green – drag up if wanted
Add Black Layer Mask
Brush, white, 0% hardness, 100% opacity
Brush over coloured part of eye (consider painting from centre out along contours)
Adjust layer opacity to suit

Vivid Eye Colour

H/S Adjustment layer
Tick Colourise
Add bright blue
Add some saturation
Layer blend mode soft light or overlay
Add Black Layer Mask
Brush, white, 0% hardness, 100% opacity
Brush over coloured part of eye (consider painting from centre out along contours)
Adjust layer opacity to suit
Further enhance eye colour with curves adjustment copying up mask from previous layer.
RGB - drag top 3rd up a little drag bottom 3rd down a little

Fixing Eye Details

Is there anything else good to use?
Make rough selection of a good part then CMD J
Drag it to where you want it
Inverted mask and paint good bit in
If not quite right position (but mask is) unlink mask from selection and use move tool & free transform
Paint away anything extraneous

Improving Whites

Remove veins, shiny spots, blemishes

New blank layer
Spot healing brush – sample all layers
Small brush, just bigger than blemish
Paint out veins or blemishes
Back up with healing brush & clone stamp tool

Brighten Whites

New blank layer blend soft light
Brush paint white 0% hardness opacity 30% ish
Paint over whites
Allow some of the texture below to show through
Adjust layer opacity to suit