Red Eye

[kumod]

Okay this friend of mine calls me this evening and asks if I can remove the red eye from a photo he took of his neice and nephews. I've tried a couple of times but I'm not getting great results, this is what I'm doing tell me if I'm on the right track.

1. Use the magic wand to select the redeye.
2. Desauturate
3. Make a selection around the two eyes and make a new layer via a copy
4. Adjust hue/satuartion, colorize
5. Erase out all the other stuff besides the iris
6. Lower the opacity of the new lay

Any other ideas

[Phil_The_Rodent]

The coloured part of the eye doesn't red-eye. It's just the pupil (well, it's the back of the eye reflected through the pupil to be precise), so you don't have to colourize. Select just the pupil, desaturate, and adjust your curves so that shadows are more pronounced. Careful not to lose any of the highlight reflection that may be there...

[kumod]

Thanks Phil I'll give that a try and see what happens. This is a pretty bad case of redeye since the entire thing looks red not just the pupil

[jfiscus]

have them stop smoking pot before you take photos ;)

[kumod]

have them stop smoking pot before you take photos ;)

I think I'll tell them just to be more aware with the cheap flash they have.


Hey Phil thanks again, your way worked great, I didn't go back and add any color since I had no idea what there eye color was anyway.

[fotodog]

What has helped me is:

1) use your marquee tool to select the eyes. I use circular around each eye (Shift and mouse to add)

2a) goto Image -- Adjust -- Replace color and then only the selection is affected. Select the middle red tone and adjust your fuzziness and tones.

2b) If you'd rather -- select burn tool and a really soft brush with the appropriate size (usually 3-5 pixels smaller than the red area) and select a low rate of 5-7% and slowly burn the red away.

I use that and I'm quite satisfied.

good luck!