Dark brown to natural blue
A window-lit close-up with dark brown eyes, recolored to a medium blue. The pupils keep their size and the catchlights stay in the same spot, so the eyes still look lit by the same window.
Try a new iris color before you commit
AI Eye Color Changer
Upload a clear portrait, pick blue, green, hazel, gray, amber, or brown, then compare and download the new eye color.
Iris only, on purpose
Every run asks the model to recolor only the visible irises and to leave skin, lashes, glasses, and background alone. The download is a cosmetic preview, not a contact lens prescription or a statement about eye health.
Iris studio
Change Eye Color on Your Portrait
Upload one clear portrait, pick a natural iris color or a heterochromia pair, then inspect the split view before downloading.
01 / Portrait1K · same aspect ratio as your photo
JPG, PNG, or WebP · up to 5 MB · 256–4,096 px per side · ≤ 16 MP
02 / Color
Pupils, eye whites, catchlights, glasses, and face are asked to stay the same on every run.
1K · same aspect ratio as your photoView pricing
New color
Your new eye color will appear here
Upload a sharp portrait with both eyes open to verify its size and prepare one preview.
Real before and after pairs
See the Same Face With a New Eye Color
Each pair starts from an original AI-generated portrait of a fictional adult, not a customer photo, and runs through the same locked brief and model settings the workbench uses. Zoom into the catchlights, the dark outer ring, and the eyelid shadow, because that is where a natural eye color change either holds or breaks.
Brown to green behind clear glasses
A portrait wearing clear prescription frames, recolored to green. The frames, lens glare, and reflections stay put while the iris behind each lens changes. Mirrored or tinted lenses are a different story, covered in the limits below.
Two-color heterochromia look
A front-facing portrait given one blue iris and one amber iris. Colors are assigned by where each eye sits in the image, so the eye on the left of the photo is the first color you pick.
What changes and what stays
What This AI Eye Color Changer Edits
An eye color preview is only useful when the face is still yours. The tool changes iris color and asks the model to leave everything else as close to the source as it can.
Iris color, not the eye
The locked brief keeps pupils black, round, and the same size. It also keeps the eye whites, the limbal ring, eyelid shadows, lashes, and every catchlight. Eyes are not enlarged, brightened, or turned toward the camera.
Six colors, two modes
Pick blue, green, hazel, gray, amber, or brown. Matched mode gives both eyes the same color. Heterochromia mode gives each eye its own color, assigned by the side of the image it appears on.
Honest limits
Closed eyes, deep side profiles, and tiny faces in group shots leave little iris to work with. Sunglasses and mirrored lenses are not supported, so the workbench asks you to confirm that both irises are visible before every run.
Practical workflow
How to Change Eye Color in a Photo
The best source is a sharp, evenly lit portrait where both irises are clearly visible and at least the size of a fingernail on screen. Front-facing or slightly angled faces give this AI eye color changer the most real iris to recolor.
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Upload one clear portrait
Choose a JPG, PNG, or WebP file up to 5 MB, with each side from 256 to 4,096 pixels and no more than 16 megapixels. The workbench reads the dimensions locally before a run is allowed.
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Pick a color and a mode
Blue is the default. Keep matched mode for a realistic everyday preview, or switch to heterochromia and choose a color for the eye on each side of the image. The two colors must be different.
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Run one tracked preview
Sign in, confirm the fixed cost of 25 credits, and start one tracked job. The result is a 1K image at the same aspect ratio as your photo. Controls lock while the job runs so the request and the result always describe the same color.
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Compare, then download
Drag the split view across both eyes and check the pupils, catchlights, and eyelids against the source. Download only when the face still matches. A failed task refunds its credits, and a paused status check can resume the original task.
Choose the right preview
AI Eye Color Changer vs Contact Lens Try-On App vs Photoshop
The right route depends on whether you want a finished photo of your own face, a live camera filter, or a manual edit you control pixel by pixel. Names below describe product classes rather than specific brands.
Banana Pro AI Eye Color Changer
- Best for
- A finished, shareable still of your own portrait with a natural new iris color, including a two-color heterochromia look
- Control
- Six natural colors, matched or heterochromia mode, a locked brief that keeps pupils and catchlights, split comparison, and a tracked download for 25 credits
- Tradeoff
- No live camera view, no custom hex color, and the whole image is regenerated, so fine details deserve a close check
Contact lens try-on camera app
- Best for
- People shopping for a specific colored lens who want to move their head in front of a live camera
- Control
- Real-time AR overlay of catalog lens patterns, usually tied to one retailer's product range
- Tradeoff
- Overlays often look pasted on in still photos, and a try-on is not a prescription. The FDA says every contact lens, including decorative ones, must be prescribed by a doctor.
Photoshop manual recolor
- Best for
- Retouchers who already mask irises by hand and need exact color matching for a client file
- Control
- Selections, hue and saturation layers, and blend modes on the exact pixels, with any color you can mix
- Tradeoff
- Takes skill and time per eye. Sloppy masks tint the eye whites or pupils, and a flat color layer erases iris texture.
Choosing a shade
Which Eye Color Looks Most Natural on You?
Iris color comes mostly from how much melanin sits in the front layer of the iris. Lots of melanin reads brown. Less reads hazel or green. Very little reads blue or gray. Use that as a starting point, then judge the preview against your skin tone and hair.
Blue
Blue eyes have little melanin in the front layer of the iris. On darker brows and hair the result reads bold; on lighter coloring it reads soft. Check that the blue still has a darker outer ring, or it can look flat.
Green
Cleveland Clinic puts green at about 2% of people worldwide, which is why a green preview gets noticed. It usually looks most believable with warm or olive skin and a slightly muted, olive-leaning shade.
Hazel
Hazel mixes a golden-brown center with green toward the edge, so it is the gentlest change from brown eyes. Pick it when you want a subtle preview that friends might not notice at first glance.
Gray
Gray is a cool, low-saturation light iris. It pairs well with black-and-white or cool-toned edits, but in warm indoor light it can drift toward blue, so compare the result against the source lighting.
Amber
Amber is a solid golden-copper tone without the green of hazel. It reads warm and striking in daylight portraits and is a common pick for the second eye in a heterochromia preview.
Brown
Cleveland Clinic notes that more than half of the world's population has brown eyes. Use brown to warm up light eyes in a photo, or as one side of a heterochromia look that still feels grounded.
Iris color facts cited from medical references, reviewed 17 Sep 2026.
Hard inputs
Photos That Work and Photos That Fail
We ran the same locked brief on deliberately difficult photos so this page can say where the eye color changer holds up and where it fails. If your photo matches a weak case, pick a different source instead of paying for the same run twice.
Glasses and sunglasses
Clear prescription lenses worked in our test: the iris behind each lens changed while frames and glare stayed. Mirrored sunglasses failed: instead of leaving the lenses alone, the model painted green irises onto the reflections. Take sunglasses off before uploading.
Side profiles
A slight three-quarter turn is fine. In our near side-profile test only one eye was partly visible, it picked up a faint tint, and heterochromia mode had no second eye to recolor. Use a front-facing photo for two colors.
Heterochromia boundaries
This mode creates complete heterochromia, one color per eye, on a single front-facing face. It does not draw partial or central heterochromia rings, and it is not reliable on group photos.
Small, dark, or blurry eyes
Night shots, heavy motion blur, squinting, and faces that are tiny in the frame give the model almost no iris texture. Crop closer before uploading instead of running the same weak photo again.
What This Tool Can and Cannot Promise
The AI eye color changer generates a new image from your photo plus a fixed, server-owned brief. It is a cosmetic visual preview. It does not measure your real iris, predict how a colored contact lens will look on your eye, or say anything about eye health. Because the whole image is regenerated, very small details can still shift, especially stray hairs, lash tips, and fine skin texture.
Keep the original file. If the pupils changed size, the eye shape moved, or the face no longer looks like the person in the source, discard the result and try a sharper, front-facing photo with both eyes open and in focus. If eye color changes in real life, including a new difference between the two eyes, the American Academy of Ophthalmology advises seeing an ophthalmologist, not running another preview.
Privacy, Storage, and Deletion
Upload only portraits you own or have permission to edit, and never use the tool to misrepresent someone else. Signed-in eye color tasks and results can appear in My Creations so a task can be recovered after a temporary connection problem instead of being paid for twice.
The current storage backend has no automatic expiry for uploaded or generated image objects. Delete in My Creations soft-deletes the task record from account history; it does not delete the underlying image object or provider copy. Analytics events record only the tool, mode, and color choice, never the photo. Review the Privacy Policy before uploading a face photo.
Tool specifications
A Focused Eye Color Path
The workbench accepts one JPG, PNG, or WebP portrait up to 5 MB. Each side must be between 256 and 4,096 pixels, and the image must stay within 16 megapixels. One run costs 25 credits and returns a 1K result at an automatic aspect ratio that follows your photo.
Processing reinterprets the iris the camera recorded, so the result is a cosmetic preview rather than an eye exam or lens fitting. By using the tool, you confirm that your upload complies with the Terms of Service. Reviewed by the Banana Pro AI product team · Last reviewed: 2026-09-17.
Purpose-bound, account-bound upload verification
Server-owned iris briefs that the browser cannot override
Matched and heterochromia modes with a required both-eyes-visible confirmation
Idempotent task recovery and automatic refund on failure
Before-and-after split comparison
Download after visual inspection
Questions
AI Eye Color Changer FAQ
Straight answers about photos, colors, heterochromia, credits, and what the preview cannot tell you.
How do I change my eye color in a photo?
Upload one clear portrait, choose blue, green, hazel, gray, amber, or brown, keep matched mode or switch to heterochromia, then run the preview. When it finishes, drag the split view to compare both eyes with the original and download the version you like.
Will the result still look like me?
That is what the locked brief is for: it asks the model to change only the iris and keep the face, pupils, eye whites, lashes, and catchlights. It is not a guarantee, because the image is regenerated. Sharp, front-facing photos with both eyes open hold up best.
Can I give each eye a different color?
Yes. Heterochromia mode lets you pick two different colors. The first color goes to the eye on the left side of the image and the second to the eye on the right side, which is the person's own right and left eye. It works best on one front-facing face.
Does it work with glasses or sunglasses?
Clear glasses worked in our test because the iris is visible through the lens. Sunglasses and mirrored lenses do not: in testing the model drew irises onto the lens reflections instead of leaving them alone. The workbench asks you to confirm both irises are visible, so use a photo without sunglasses.
Can this show me how colored contacts will look?
Only as a rough visual idea. Real lenses have printed patterns, sit on top of your natural iris, and look different in person. The preview is not a lens recommendation, and the FDA says all contact lenses, including decorative ones, must be prescribed by a doctor.
How much does one eye color change cost?
One run uses 25 credits and returns a single 1K image. The workbench shows the cost and your remaining balance before submission. If the task fails, the credits are refunded, and a dropped connection resumes the original task instead of charging again.
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