Green Eye

Tony,

Do you use flash when you photograph you’re daughters dog?

If you do, then the flash reflects on the retina, and in different eyes, ie Human animal and so on they refflect back .

Maybe change the angle that the light hits the subjects eye by even a few degrees..

Regards

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:00:59 -0400, tony cooper
wrote:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Life is Good !!!

On 2011-09-18 17:00:59 -0700, tony cooper said:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Sure there are Tony.

In this NG, in the thread "Red in eye whites" I spelled out a Matt Koskowski method of adjustment using a "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer. That can be adapted to fix animal "luminous green-eye". The problem with painting out the green is, it removes the natural look of the eye. it becomes flat and dull, and it looks as if you painted out the green.

Here is a version I worked a fix for, when "Stinkweed" had a similar problem with a leopard image she posted in alt.binaries.photos.original.

I had to do a double fix on that, one for the pupil and one for the iris. Here is how that worked out.
< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Sharon-Leopard-comp_01 .jpg >

—
Regards,

Savageduck

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:24:51 +0100, Ritchie Valens
wrote:

Tony,

Do you use flash when you photograph you’re daughters dog?
If you do, then the flash reflects on the retina, and in different eyes, ie Human animal and so on they refflect back .

Maybe change the angle that the light hits the subjects eye by even a few degrees..

You have to be kidding.

Regards

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:00:59 -0400, tony cooper
wrote:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Life is Good !!!

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

What do you mean "You have to be kidding"?

You have to be kidding.

Life is Good !!!

In article ,
tony cooper wrote:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Look to the answers to ‘red eye’.

In article ,
tony cooper wrote:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

And for all persons with red or green eye problems, the solution is to move the flash off the camera, if you can.

On 2011-09-18 19:08:47 -0700, John J Stafford said:

In article ,
tony cooper wrote:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

And for all persons with red or green eye problems, the solution is to move the flash off the camera, if you can.

That would be nice, unfortunately there are times a cure is needed rather than prevention.

Personally, for the most part I avoid using the built-in flash and rely on my SB-800 when needed. However there are many who have no idea of how to even turn auto flash off. For proof I give you all those pointless flashes in the grandstands at night events.

—
Regards,

Savageduck

"Ritchie Valens" wrote in message

What do you mean "You have to be kidding"?

You have to be kidding.

My first reaction was change the angle and use room light instead of flash, but then I realized he was asking how to fix the eyes in PS AFTER the pictures were taken.
In Paint Shop Pro (I realize maybe not everyone happens to have and I have version 7 because I like some features like the illumination effects I sometimes use) they have actual eyes, for people (different colors) and animals. You can pick and draw a circle with the tool where you want it to go. Sometimes it looks natural, sometimes it doesn’t.
Don’t know what I’d do with PS and this, any dogs eyes I’ve had to fix seems like I used the redeye tool. But I think I would zoom way in and select the eye and maybe use a layer>adjustment> solid color, and then down the opacity till it looked okay.
I don’t have a picture of a dog with green eyes (I think I know what he means) to try it on, off hand. Though I have 2 dogs I could try and get a pic of it with LOL (I don’t use flash much, especially with animals, I like the softer look of room light, even at night, and can always lighten it in PS)

Life is Good !!!

"Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message

On 2011-09-18 17:00:59 -0700, tony cooper
said:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Sure there are Tony.

In this NG, in the thread "Red in eye whites" I spelled out a Matt Koskowski method of adjustment using a "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer. That can be adapted to fix animal "luminous green-eye". The problem with painting out the green is, it removes the natural look of the eye. it becomes flat and dull, and it looks as if you painted out the green.

Here is a version I worked a fix for, when "Stinkweed" had a similar problem with a leopard image she posted in alt.binaries.photos.original.
I had to do a double fix on that, one for the pupil and one for the iris. Here is how that worked out.
< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Sharon-Leopard-comp_01 .jpg >
—
Regards,

Savageduck

That came out nice. Do Leopards have brown eyes? I never noticed (never saw one up close like that) I would have guessed they be more green like cats.

"John J Stafford" wrote in message

In article ,
tony cooper wrote:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

And for all persons with red or green eye problems, the solution is to move the flash off the camera, if you can.

Some cameras you can set the flash down lower so it doesn’t wash out as much. My camera (Canon Rebel) has a "red eye setting" where it flashes several times very fast first maybe the close the pupil of the eye. I don’t have it on though.
Back in the pre digital days, we used to have a white cloth, like a handerchief and put it over the flash to cut down the light for faces or anything needing softer light.

"Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message

On 2011-09-18 19:08:47 -0700, John J Stafford
said:

In article ,
tony cooper wrote:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

And for all persons with red or green eye problems, the solution is to move the flash off the camera, if you can.

That would be nice, unfortunately there are times a cure is needed rather than prevention.

Personally, for the most part I avoid using the built-in flash and rely on my SB-800 when needed. However there are many who have no idea of how to even turn auto flash off. For proof I give you all those pointless flashes in the grandstands at night events.

—
Regards,

Savageduck

Yeah, I keep my camera on P (program) which is still auto but not totally AUTO -which opens and uses the flash a lot of the time on it’s own. As I said I don’t like using flash unless I have to.

On 2011-09-18 17:26:02 -0700, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> said:

On 2011-09-18 17:00:59 -0700, tony cooper said:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Sure there are Tony.

In this NG, in the thread "Red in eye whites" I spelled out a Matt Koskowski method of adjustment using a "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer. That can be adapted to fix animal "luminous green-eye". The problem with painting out the green is, it removes the natural look of the eye. it becomes flat and dull, and it looks as if you painted out the green.

Here is a version I worked a fix for, when "Stinkweed" had a similar problem with a leopard image she posted in alt.binaries.photos.original.
I had to do a double fix on that, one for the pupil and one for the iris. Here is how that worked out.
< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Sharon-Leopard-comp_01 .jpg >

….and here is the classic dog "green-eye" fixed using adjustment layers; < http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/EyeFix-comp-20.jpg >

—
Regards,

Savageduck

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:26:02 -0700, Savageduck
<savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

On 2011-09-18 17:00:59 -0700, tony cooper said:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Sure there are Tony.

In this NG, in the thread "Red in eye whites" I spelled out a Matt Koskowski method of adjustment using a "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer. That can be adapted to fix animal "luminous green-eye". The problem with painting out the green is, it removes the natural look of the eye. it becomes flat and dull, and it looks as if you painted out the green.

Here is a version I worked a fix for, when "Stinkweed" had a similar problem with a leopard image she posted in alt.binaries.photos.original.
I had to do a double fix on that, one for the pupil and one for the iris. Here is how that worked out.
< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Sharon-Leopard-comp_01 .jpg >

That’s a nice result. Very nice.

I don’t have the problem when photographing the dog because I’m aware of what causes "red eye" or "green eye", and adjust my position accordingly. Also, I use a diffuser.

Where I have the problem is when the dog is just part of the scene with a human or two included. I’m concentrating on the humans, and then see those glowing green orbs in the result. It’s when I don’t notice the dog that the problem occurs.

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:56:43 -0400, "Carrie"
wrote:

"John J Stafford" wrote in message

In article ,
tony cooper wrote:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

And for all persons with red or green eye problems, the solution is to move the flash off the camera, if you can.

Some cameras you can set the flash down lower so it doesn’t wash out as much. My camera (Canon Rebel) has a "red eye setting" where it flashes several times very fast first maybe the close the pupil of the eye. I don’t have it on though.
Back in the pre digital days, we used to have a white cloth, like a handerchief and put it over the flash to cut down the light for faces or anything needing softer light.

Just to be clear about my question…it’s about removing green eye in post, not preventing green eye. When the dog is the subject, the effect can be prevented. When the dog is in the background, or noses his way into the setting, there’s no prevention possible.

When taking family event snaps, pets often get in the scene when they are not planned participants. Sometimes it’s a better photo by their presence, so we leave them in and dim the eyes.

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

On 2011-09-18 20:38:47 -0700, tony cooper said:

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:26:02 -0700, Savageduck
<savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

On 2011-09-18 17:00:59 -0700, tony cooper said:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Sure there are Tony.

In this NG, in the thread "Red in eye whites" I spelled out a Matt Koskowski method of adjustment using a "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer. That can be adapted to fix animal "luminous green-eye". The problem with painting out the green is, it removes the natural look of the eye. it becomes flat and dull, and it looks as if you painted out the green.

Here is a version I worked a fix for, when "Stinkweed" had a similar problem with a leopard image she posted in alt.binaries.photos.original.
I had to do a double fix on that, one for the pupil and one for the iris. Here is how that worked out.
< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Sharon-Leopard-comp_01 .jpg >

That’s a nice result. Very nice.

I don’t have the problem when photographing the dog because I’m aware of what causes "red eye" or "green eye", and adjust my position accordingly. Also, I use a diffuser.

I never had a doubt of that, but some here might not know us and our photo tinkering skills that well.

Where I have the problem is when the dog is just part of the scene with a human or two included. I’m concentrating on the humans, and then see those glowing green orbs in the result. It’s when I don’t notice the dog that the problem occurs.

I have had that happen in the past. I have some good shots of my wife with our dog and I have been taken by surprised by the glow coming from inside the mutt’s head.

It seems there is a need to heed W.C. Fields and his advice regarding working with children and animals.

—
Regards,

Savageduck

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:04:24 -0700, Savageduck
<savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

On 2011-09-18 20:38:47 -0700, tony cooper said:

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:26:02 -0700, Savageduck
<savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

On 2011-09-18 17:00:59 -0700, tony cooper said:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Sure there are Tony.

In this NG, in the thread "Red in eye whites" I spelled out a Matt Koskowski method of adjustment using a "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer. That can be adapted to fix animal "luminous green-eye". The problem with painting out the green is, it removes the natural look of the eye. it becomes flat and dull, and it looks as if you painted out the green.

Here is a version I worked a fix for, when "Stinkweed" had a similar problem with a leopard image she posted in alt.binaries.photos.original.
I had to do a double fix on that, one for the pupil and one for the iris. Here is how that worked out.
< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Sharon-Leopard-comp_01 .jpg >

That’s a nice result. Very nice.

I don’t have the problem when photographing the dog because I’m aware of what causes "red eye" or "green eye", and adjust my position accordingly. Also, I use a diffuser.

I never had a doubt of that, but some here might not know us and our photo tinkering skills that well.

Where I have the problem is when the dog is just part of the scene with a human or two included. I’m concentrating on the humans, and then see those glowing green orbs in the result. It’s when I don’t notice the dog that the problem occurs.

I have had that happen in the past. I have some good shots of my wife with our dog and I have been taken by surprised by the glow coming from inside the mutt’s head.

It seems there is a need to heed W.C. Fields and his advice regarding working with children and animals.

I’m surprised that Adobe hasn’t added a Pet Eye tool similar to the Red Eye tool, or that there hasn’t been an Action mentioned.

When there’s a family get-together (like we just had for a grandson’s 8th birthday party) and a lot of family snaps are taken, you really don’t want a complicated set of steps for green eyes. Too many snaps to work on.

For an image like that leopard shot that was posted, you can put in the necessary time. No leopard attended the birthday party, though.

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

The Red Eye Remover filter works great for "red" eyes, but not green. I just had a similar problem with a cat. I also tried an Animal Eye action script I found on-line, but that wasn’t well recorded & I don’t see the way to make it work. In the end I colored in the florescent green with black keeping the shine spot in the middle. This isn’t pleasant and doesn’t hold up to a high resolution inspection.

A dose of light before the flash to shrink the subject’s pupil helps reduce red-eye and green eye, but this isn’t very spontaneous. And there’s no way to pose a suspicious cat (wild animal) tracking the camera.

My bad, I thought I reached the end of the green-eye posts. Hue saturation adjustment layer – huh. Better to avoid green eye when taking a picture.

Carrie,

Thanks for your explanation.

Tony obviously couldnt be bothered to politely respond to me taking the trouble to try and help him.

Its simple.

1. Why dosn’t he highlight both the eyes
Freeform Pen tool, so as to get marching ants.
Make sure you use control so both are highlighted on a layer.

2. Goto Image adjust anc change the colour.

3. Or create detasurate highlighted eyes, and image adjust the colour

4. Or Create new layer whilst still highlighted, and colour bucket with Feather tool and modify edge.

Hes had many explanations now, he shouls be able to do it.

Also youtube is a great resource.

Regards

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:52:57 -0400, "Carrie"
wrote:

"Ritchie Valens" wrote in message

What do you mean "You have to be kidding"?

You have to be kidding.

My first reaction was change the angle and use room light instead of flash, but then I realized he was asking how to fix the eyes in PS AFTER the pictures were taken.
In Paint Shop Pro (I realize maybe not everyone happens to have and I have version 7 because I like some features like the illumination effects I sometimes use) they have actual eyes, for people (different colors) and animals. You can pick and draw a circle with the tool where you want it to go. Sometimes it looks natural, sometimes it doesn’t.
Don’t know what I’d do with PS and this, any dogs eyes I’ve had to fix seems like I used the redeye tool. But I think I would zoom way in and select the eye and maybe use a layer>adjustment> solid color, and then down the opacity till it looked okay.
I don’t have a picture of a dog with green eyes (I think I know what he means) to try it on, off hand. Though I have 2 dogs I could try and get a pic of it with LOL (I don’t use flash much, especially with animals, I like the softer look of room light, even at night, and can always lighten it in PS)

Life is Good !!!

Life is Good !!!

"Kele" wrote in message

The Red Eye Remover filter works great for "red" eyes, but not green. I just had a similar problem with a cat. I also tried an Animal Eye action script I found on-line, but that wasn’t well recorded & I don’t see the way to make it work. In the end I colored in the florescent green with black keeping the shine spot in the middle. This isn’t pleasant and doesn’t hold up to a high resolution inspection.

A dose of light before the flash to shrink the subject’s pupil helps reduce red-eye and green eye, but this isn’t very spontaneous. And there’s no way to pose a suspicious cat (wild animal) tracking the camera.

Yes…. And if you’re trying to capture an ACTIVE animal, having a slow shutter speed (instead of flash) isn’t so good, either.

"Ritchie Valens" wrote in message

Carrie,

Thanks for your explanation.

Tony obviously couldnt be bothered to politely respond to me taking the trouble to try and help him.

Seems to go on quite a bit here.

Its simple.

1. Why dosn’t he highlight both the eyes
Freeform Pen tool, so as to get marching ants.
Make sure you use control so both are highlighted on a layer.

2. Goto Image adjust anc change the colour.

3. Or create detasurate highlighted eyes, and image adjust the colour
4. Or Create new layer whilst still highlighted, and colour bucket with Feather tool and modify edge.

Hes had many explanations now, he shouls be able to do it.
Also youtube is a great resource.

Regards

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:52:57 -0400, "Carrie"
wrote:

"Ritchie Valens" wrote in message

What do you mean "You have to be kidding"?

You have to be kidding.

My first reaction was change the angle and use room light instead of flash, but then I realized he was asking how to fix the eyes in PS AFTER the pictures were taken.
In Paint Shop Pro (I realize maybe not everyone happens to have and I have version 7 because I like some features like the illumination effects I
sometimes use) they have actual eyes, for people (different colors) and animals. You can pick and draw a circle with the tool where you want it to go. Sometimes it looks natural, sometimes it doesn’t.
Don’t know what I’d do with PS and this, any dogs eyes I’ve had to fix seems like I used the redeye tool. But I think I would zoom way in and select the eye and maybe use a layer>adjustment> solid color, and then down
the opacity till it looked okay.
I don’t have a picture of a dog with green eyes (I think I know what he
means) to try it on, off hand. Though I have 2 dogs I could try and get a pic of it with LOL (I don’t use flash much, especially with animals, I like
the softer look of room light, even at night, and can always lighten it in PS)

Life is Good !!!

Life is Good !!!

"tony cooper" wrote in message

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:26:02 -0700, Savageduck
<savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

On 2011-09-18 17:00:59 -0700, tony cooper
said:

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques.

Sure there are Tony.

In this NG, in the thread "Red in eye whites" I spelled out a Matt Koskowski method of adjustment using a "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer. That can be adapted to fix animal "luminous green-eye". The problem with painting out the green is, it removes the natural look of the eye. it becomes flat and dull, and it looks as if you painted out the green.

Here is a version I worked a fix for, when "Stinkweed" had a similar problem with a leopard image she posted in alt.binaries.photos.original.
I had to do a double fix on that, one for the pupil and one for the iris. Here is how that worked out.
< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Sharon-Leopard-comp_01 .jpg >

That’s a nice result. Very nice.

I don’t have the problem when photographing the dog because I’m aware of what causes "red eye" or "green eye", and adjust my position accordingly. Also, I use a diffuser.

Where I have the problem is when the dog is just part of the scene with a human or two included. I’m concentrating on the humans, and then see those glowing green orbs in the result. It’s when I don’t notice the dog that the problem occurs.

I’ve had that happen, too. Or seen it in other’s photos. Sometimes the dog is in the background, in a low light room and looks like a demon LOL

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

On 2011-09-19 06:15:49 -0700, "Carrie" said:

"Kele" wrote in message

The Red Eye Remover filter works great for "red" eyes, but not green. I just had a similar problem with a cat. I also tried an Animal Eye action script I found on-line, but that wasn’t well recorded & I don’t see the way to make it work. In the end I colored in the florescent green with black keeping the shine spot in the middle. This isn’t pleasant and doesn’t hold up to a high resolution inspection.

A dose of light before the flash to shrink the subject’s pupil helps reduce red-eye and green eye, but this isn’t very spontaneous. And there’s no way to pose a suspicious cat (wild animal) tracking the camera.

Yes…. And if you’re trying to capture an ACTIVE animal, having a slow shutter speed (instead of flash) isn’t so good, either.

….but there is always a way.
< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/DSC_3651cmw.jpg >

—
Regards,

Savageduck

"Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message

On 2011-09-19 06:15:49 -0700, "Carrie" said:

"Kele" wrote in message

The Red Eye Remover filter works great for "red" eyes, but not green. I just had a similar problem with a cat. I also tried an Animal Eye action
script I found on-line, but that wasn’t well recorded & I don’t see the way to make it work. In the end I colored in the florescent green with black keeping the shine spot in the middle. This isn’t pleasant and doesn’t hold up to a high resolution inspection.

A dose of light before the flash to shrink the subject’s pupil helps reduce red-eye and green eye, but this isn’t very spontaneous. And there’s no way to pose a suspicious cat (wild animal) tracking the camera.

Yes…. And if you’re trying to capture an ACTIVE animal, having a slow shutter speed (instead of flash) isn’t so good, either.

…but there is always a way.
< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/DSC_3651cmw.jpg >
—
Regards,

Savageduck

That’s amazing!

That is nice – bold color. Feel free to divulge any PS steps you use to get the results.

On 2011-09-19 19:14:31 -0700, "Kele" said:

That is nice – bold color. Feel free to divulge any PS steps you use to get the results.

First, all my shooting is RAW.
So for this particular pussy cat we have the following:

In ACR;
Camera Profile= "Camera Standard"
Lens Profile Correction = Enabled
WB is set to Temp=5850, Tint= +11
Fill light = 40; Blacks = 12
Brightness = +65; Contrast = +30
Clarity = +65; Vibrance= + 30; Saturation= 0

CS5:
Adjust Levels & Curves
Upward adjustment to vibrance +20

Convert layer to "Smart Object"
Apply USM 95%; Radius = 2p; Threshold = 0
Set "Blend Mode" to "Luminosity"
Invert "Smart Filter" layer mask to black.
Paint the cat in white on layer mask to selectively apply USM. Crop to taste (in this case 12 x 8 @300 ppi)

Apply my frame action which effectively does the following: 1: Duplicates layer
2: Image -> Canvas size -> (uncheck relative) add 0.4 inch to each dimension (Canvas extension color Black)-> OK.
3: Top layer "Blending Options" Layer style = add stroke: size= 8px: Position = outside: Blend mode = normal: Color = White
4: Merge visible layers
5: Image -> Mode -> 8Bit

All done, save resizing for the folks on the web. In this case 867 x 1280 compressed to about 287 KB.

—
Regards,

Savageduck

"Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message

On 2011-09-19 19:14:31 -0700, "Kele" said:

That is nice – bold color. Feel free to divulge any PS steps you use to get
the results.

First, all my shooting is RAW.
So for this particular pussy cat we have the following:

In ACR;
Camera Profile= "Camera Standard"
Lens Profile Correction = Enabled
WB is set to Temp=5850, Tint= +11
Fill light = 40; Blacks = 12
Brightness = +65; Contrast = +30
Clarity = +65; Vibrance= + 30; Saturation= 0

CS5:
Adjust Levels & Curves
Upward adjustment to vibrance +20

Convert layer to "Smart Object"
Apply USM 95%; Radius = 2p; Threshold = 0
Set "Blend Mode" to "Luminosity"
Invert "Smart Filter" layer mask to black.
Paint the cat in white on layer mask to selectively apply USM. Crop to taste (in this case 12 x 8 @300 ppi)

Apply my frame action which effectively does the following: 1: Duplicates layer
2: Image -> Canvas size -> (uncheck relative) add 0.4 inch to each dimension (Canvas extension color Black)-> OK.
3: Top layer "Blending Options" Layer style = add stroke: size= 8px: Position = outside: Blend mode = normal: Color = White
4: Merge visible layers
5: Image -> Mode -> 8Bit

All done, save resizing for the folks on the web. In this case 867 x 1280 compressed to about 287 KB.

—
Regards,

Savageduck

Nice. I’ve just been getting into using blending modes. And never think to convert to Smat Object (but should).

"tony cooper" wrote in message

Photographs of my daughter’s Chesapeake Retriever often have "green eye". Usually, I just use the Brush and paint out the green with black, but wonder if there are other – better – techniques. —
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

I ended up with a picture of my dog with green eyes. I was taking pics outside last night and the flash came on. So I came back here to reread the posts.