"glowing eyes" in animals

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Kay_Olson
May 20, 2005
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Does anyone have an answer for correcting the glowing green/yellow that occurs in animals (particularly dogs) in an image that was taken with flash? The new red eye tool in CS2 works great on people, but animals have a different color when the light hits the retina. I have a lot of photos a client sent, about 75% of them with this problem.

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Lynch_Mike
May 20, 2005
Not an automated one…
But you can select just the eyes (and refine by color selecting the glow-eye color) and then paint your selection with black…
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Mathias_Vejerslev
May 20, 2005
Destaurate Tool, Burn Tool.
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Corey
May 20, 2005
A feathered selection and adjusting the Channel Mixer.

Peadge 🙂
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LedZeppelin
May 21, 2005
Or, you could get your Lasso and make a circle over the eye, then use Hue/Saturation to change the color.
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Kay_Olson
May 22, 2005
Thanks for all the advice – I’m using PS CS2 and wondered if there was something new in the bag of tricks – the "glow" to which I’m referring can range anywhere from light green, light blue to in between and yellow. I have found with desaturate at least the pupils and highlights are defined, so there is something with which to work and replacing the color sometimes works best. It would be nice if animals had the same qualities as a human eye and just got red eye!
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dave_milbut
May 22, 2005
kay, have you seen the faq section on red eyes? there’s a technique using the channel mixer that you could use. i think the percentages given are for human eyes, but with a slight adjustment in the r, g and b values you could adjust it for animals. then you could action-ize it. here it is… ans #2:

Vicky Cravey, "Red Eye Removal" #2, 25 Nov 2001 5:17 pm </cgi-bin/webx?13/5>
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Kent_C
May 22, 2005
<http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm#Editing>

See "demoneye remover" action by chip springer which employs the channel method.
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Kay_Olson
May 22, 2005
This sounds VERY promising – I’ve created actions but never added one and I’m scared silly to do so – any warm and fuzzies for doing this and not messing up something? I’ll try stumbling through the tutorial on the site….
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dave_milbut
May 22, 2005
any warm and fuzzies for doing this and not messing up something?

just click record in the actions palette and do the steps on the image. then click stop in the palette. done. easy peasy lemon squeezy.

if you click the empty box (the show dialog box) next to the channel mixer step, it’ll pause at that dialog each time the action is run so that you can change the values.
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Kay_Olson
May 22, 2005
Bingo! It worked with some tweaking in the hue/saturation – chocolate labs do not have black eyes and seem to be the worst for this type of problem. It worked very well on some others, so this is a real time saver. I got the action in by using the shortcut and it appeared nicely on the list.Thanks for your input!
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dave_milbut
May 22, 2005
no problem.
dave
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Thomas_Ireland
May 23, 2005
OK, this doesn’t help with the problem but it’s a neat piece of trivia, and who knows? Knowing it might help someone.

I was always fascinated with the eyes of my cat. They were very bright and extremely quick to respond to changes in light. I also liked that way you could see through them from the side. Ever try that?

Anyway, I did some research and discovered a cat will have one of two eye colors. Blue or yellow. If their eyes are blue, they get "red eye" from a flash. But if their eyes are yellow, they get "green eye".

Yea, just some useless trivia, but hey! It’s Monday morning. 🙂
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chrisjbirchall
May 23, 2005
Does anyone have an answer for correcting the glowing green/yellow that occurs in animals (eyes)

Swop your DSLR for a cheap consumer model with "Red Eye Reduction". This works great with Lions and Tigers – but you have to get in real close. By the time it has flashed several times the animal’s eyes will have "stopped down" and brought its next meal into sharp focus!

Hey! – this is getting silly. Blame Thomas! <grin>
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chrisjbirchall
May 23, 2005
okay okay. I’ll try and make a useful contribution!

You might be able to exercise more control over the finished result by selecting the eyes, then in the Hue/Saturation dialogue choose green or yellow from the "Edit" drop-down before playing with the sliders.

Chris.
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Thomas_Ireland
May 23, 2005
OK, OK. It’s later in the morning now, so let me be a little more helpful. I’ve used a trick in the past to get rid of "red eye’, "green eye", what have you.

Because I have a problem with certain colors, trying to select one I could use to paint over the unwanted glow was difficult.

What I found I could do was find an image taken under similar circumstances with regard to lighting, where the eyes are not affected by the color glow. Select the eye color from that image and use it to paint over the glowing eyes.

I found that the "good" image doesn’t have to even be the same animal. Similar is all it takes. Also, a slight bur finishes it up

Hope this is more helpful than my silly trivia. 🙂
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Mathias_Vejerslev
May 23, 2005
Phosphor, "Create a "Red-Eye Pen" – A Quick Tutorial by Mathias." #, 16 Sep 2004 1:00 pm </cgi-bin/webx?50>

From red to green, you just have to adjust the channel mixer adjustment layer.

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