RedEye Fix in PS

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Steven Wandy
Dec 24, 2003
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I have been using PS 7.01 and just upgraded to CS. However, I have been using the Red Eye tool in PS Elements. Is there any on-line tutorials about Red Eye removal using the tools in PS-CS that anyone feels are good? (Yes I realize that a search engine might find some but I want some opinions on which the people here have used – or their techniques.)
Thanks
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Jasper
Dec 24, 2003
"Steven Wandy" wrote in message
I have been using PS 7.01 and just upgraded to CS. However, I have been using the Red Eye tool in PS Elements. Is there any on-line tutorials
about
Red Eye removal using the tools in PS-CS that anyone feels are good? (Yes
I
realize that a search engine might find some but I want some opinions on which the people here have used – or their techniques.)
Thanks

I happened to search this group on Google the other day and Red Eye came up …. and up. Try it for many, many opinions — none of which I remember. 🙂

Jasper
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steph
Dec 25, 2003
i have the Photoshop 7WOW! book and CD, which comes with a bunch of tool presets (which can be recreated manually and saved by any photoshop user who knows how incidentally) and i find that a two or three step process produces flawless results on most ocasions (i say most but actually i have had 100% success using this process so far)

i have therefore briefly described the process for someone who does not have access to these red-eye tool presets
this red-eye removal process can be done in earlier versions of PS, as well as CS
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step 1: using a paintbrush slightly smaller than the red portion of the eye, choose ‘saturation’ mode and a grey colour, and paint out the red/pink colour

step 2: using the same sized brush, choose ‘darken’ mode and black colour, and lower the opacity somewhat to make the job easier, and paint over the pupil area – IF the pupil region is grey after step 1 rather than black

step 3: using a low-ish opacity and choosing whatever colour the iris SHOULD have been (ie green, blue, brown), paint over the iris region with the brush mode once again set to ‘colour’ until the eye colour looks natural ________________________________________________

hope this small lesson is useful to some of you
steph

"Jasper" wrote in message
"Steven Wandy" wrote in message
I have been using PS 7.01 and just upgraded to CS. However, I have been using the Red Eye tool in PS Elements. Is there any on-line tutorials
about
Red Eye removal using the tools in PS-CS that anyone feels are good?
(Yes
I
realize that a search engine might find some but I want some opinions on which the people here have used – or their techniques.)
Thanks

I happened to search this group on Google the other day and Red Eye came
up
… and up. Try it for many, many opinions — none of which I remember.
🙂
Jasper

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Almazick
Jan 1, 2004

1. Open your image.

Open the image that you want to repair. Try zooming in so you can easily see the red eyes that need to be fixed. Then, select the Color Replacement tool (located in the toolbox with the Healing Brush and Patch tool).

2. Choose a brush tip.

Choose a brush tip from the options bar. The brush tip should be smaller than the red area of the eye to make correcting the red-eye easier.

3. Set options for the Color Replacement tool.

In the options bar, you can choose settings that help you fix red-eye. For Mode, make sure that Color is selected. For the Sampling option, choose Once to erase only areas containing the color that you target. For the Limits option, select Discontiguous to replace the sampled color wherever it occurs under the brush. Drag the Tolerance slider to a low value (around 30 percent) to replace only the few colors very similar to the pixels you click.

4. Choose a color to replace the red.

Typically, black is a good choice, but you could try other colors to more closely resemble a person’s eye color. To choose a color, click the foreground color swatch in the toolbox. In the color picker, choose a color that looks good, and then click OK.

5. Repair your photo.

Click once on the color you want to replace in the image. Drag over the red with black to repair the image. If all the red isn’t removed, try increasing the Tolerance level in the options bar to correct more shades of red.

"Steven Wandy" wrote in message
I have been using PS 7.01 and just upgraded to CS. However, I have been using the Red Eye tool in PS Elements. Is there any on-line tutorials
about
Red Eye removal using the tools in PS-CS that anyone feels are good? (Yes
I
realize that a search engine might find some but I want some opinions on which the people here have used – or their techniques.)
Thanks

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