Red eye remover

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Kamyk
Aug 12, 2004
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Hello all!

I would like to remove red eyes from my pictures. Can I do it by automatically using some function/option in Photoshop 7.0. or I am forced to do it manually?? If I cannot do it, please advise me some program which can do it automatically, because I know that there are such programs.

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RSD99
Aug 12, 2004
A "program" might not be the easiest or best way to do that. See http://www.wacom.com/tips/tip.cfm?ID=44&category=Photosh op

you posted:
"…
please advise me some program which can
do it automatically, because I know that there are such programs. …."

Yes … Adobe has had a "plug-in" to do that since at least 1997 …

"Kamyk" wrote in message
Hello all!

I would like to remove red eyes from my pictures. Can I do it by automatically using some function/option in Photoshop 7.0. or I am forced to do it manually?? If I cannot do it, please advise me some program which can do it automatically, because I know that there are such programs.
Regards
Marcin from Poland

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David Haley
Aug 12, 2004
This day of Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:40:51 GMT, "RSD99" proclaimed:

A "program" might not be the easiest or best way to do that. See http://www.wacom.com/tips/tip.cfm?ID=44&category=Photosh op
you posted:
"…
please advise me some program which can
do it automatically, because I know that there are such programs. …"

Yes … Adobe has had a "plug-in" to do that since at least 1997 …

Hi,

Well, I’d also like to remove "red eye", except that it’s actually more like "green eye". These pictures of my cat demonstrate the problem:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye.jpg http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye2.jpg

I have Photoshop CS. When I use the red eye remover tool, it doesn’t seem to actually do anything much. It certainly isn’t magically fixing the problem. 🙂 It does however fix proper red eye on humans – just doesn’t seem to be working on my cats’ green eyes. (I guess that’s why they call it the red eye tool and not the green eye tool…)

Any advice on how to get rid of this? I’ve tried doing it manually (by painting with black) but that looks completely wrong. As you can probably tell I’m hardly an expert in this subject so any advice is appreciated. 🙂

Thanks in advance,
David


~david-haley
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JJS
Aug 12, 2004
"RSD99" wrote in message
A "program" might not be the easiest or best way to do that. See http://www.wacom.com/tips/tip.cfm?ID=44&category=Photosh op

Hey, the guy spent a fortune on PS and it doesn’t even _automatically_ fix Red Eye. Why, it doesn’t have cutesy frames and automatic cartoon balloons with Happy Whatever in ’em! And where’s the Tan Line Fixer? And what about rubber stamp logos? And no fun sounds! WTF is with this product?
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JJS
Aug 12, 2004
David, if you go to CS and press the Help button, then take the Search option and type in "Red eye", you will find a neat, short page with illustrations on how to fix it. In your case – the cat with blueberry popsicle eyes – it might be quicker to reshoot the pictures without direct flash.
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Tom Thomas
Aug 12, 2004
David Haley wrote:

Well, I’d also like to remove "red eye", except that it’s actually more like "green eye". These pictures of my cat demonstrate the problem:
http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye.jpg http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye2.jpg

Try this: Select the fluorescent irises of the eyes — easy in this case because they’re so prominent. It’s easiest to zoom in to 200% or 300% to get all of the colored area. Then Desaturate. That takes out the weird color. Then go into Levels and adjust the white and black points so that the darkest parts of the eyes are pure black and the specular points are white. This will leave a range of grays in other parts as well. This does a pretty convincing job, OMHO. ——————————-
Tom

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DH
David Haley
Aug 12, 2004
This day of Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:18:23 -0500, "jjs" proclaimed:

David, if you go to CS and press the Help button, then take the Search option and type in "Red eye", you will find a neat, short page with illustrations on how to fix it. In your case – the cat with blueberry popsicle eyes – it might be quicker to reshoot the pictures without direct flash.

Actually, I already checked the help file before asking here – I’d anticipated an RTFM response. 😛 In fact, as I said in my first post, I already tried following those instructions. I apologize for calling it the ‘red-eye remover tool’ – it’s been a while and I forgot that it wasn’t a specialized tool but simply the color replacer tool.

In any case, when I use that, as I said the results aren’t terribly useful. Instead of being bright green/turquoise, it comes out bright grey.

Just to be sure, I just now followed the instructions again to show you what it looks like:
http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye2_fixed .jpg

I can’t reshoot the pictures (since I’m not with my cats and won’t be for a while) and it’s not terribly important that the pictures be good anyways. I was just curious, and seeing the post about red eye reminded me of the problem I had with this.

At this point, is there nothing more to do than to try darkening her pupils? If that’s how it’s done I’ll just do it that way, but I was hoping that someone else had run into a problem like this and had any hints.

Thanks,
David


~david-haley
DH
David Haley
Aug 12, 2004
This day of Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:36:36 -0400, Tom Thomas proclaimed:

David Haley wrote:

Well, I’d also like to remove "red eye", except that it’s actually more like "green eye". These pictures of my cat demonstrate the problem:
http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye.jpg http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye2.jpg

Try this: Select the fluorescent irises of the eyes — easy in this case because they’re so prominent. It’s easiest to zoom in to 200% or 300% to get all of the colored area. Then Desaturate. That takes out the weird color. Then go into Levels and adjust the white and black points so that the darkest parts of the eyes are pure black and the specular points are white. This will leave a range of grays in other parts as well. This does a pretty convincing job, OMHO.

That works very well. I’ll have to play around with getting it right but the technique seems to be just what I needed.

Thanks. 🙂
-David


~david-haley
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JJS
Aug 12, 2004
"David Haley" wrote in message

Just to be sure, I just now followed the instructions again to show you
what it
looks like:
http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye2_fixed .jpg

Stop it. You are scareing me.
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howldog
Aug 12, 2004
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:10:26 -0500, "jjs" wrote:

"RSD99" wrote in message
A "program" might not be the easiest or best way to do that. See http://www.wacom.com/tips/tip.cfm?ID=44&category=Photosh op

Hey, the guy spent a fortune on PS and it doesn’t even _automatically_ fix Red Eye. Why, it doesn’t have cutesy frames and automatic cartoon balloons with Happy Whatever in ’em! And where’s the Tan Line Fixer?

tan lines rewl.

dewd.
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RSD99
Aug 12, 2004
HeHeHeHeHe …

Sounds to me like you should be restricted to using nothing but …..

Micro$cum PictureIt

or

Micro$crew Picture Editor

! ! ! ! !

HeHeHeHeHe …

[S-CNR … ;-)) ]

"jjs" wrote in message
"RSD99" wrote in message
A "program" might not be the easiest or best way to do that. See http://www.wacom.com/tips/tip.cfm?ID=44&category=Photosh op

Hey, the guy spent a fortune on PS and it doesn’t even _automatically_ fix Red Eye. Why, it doesn’t have cutesy frames and automatic cartoon balloons with Happy Whatever in ’em! And where’s the Tan Line Fixer? And what about rubber stamp logos? And no fun sounds! WTF is with this product?
CN
Chuck Norris
Aug 12, 2004
http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/david2.jpg
🙂
I’m such an ass… but…
UNIBROWIN’!!!!!! WERD!

plus your cat looks more evil with the eyes like that.

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:09:44 -0700, David Haley
wrote:

This day of Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:40:51 GMT, "RSD99" proclaimed:

A "program" might not be the easiest or best way to do that. See http://www.wacom.com/tips/tip.cfm?ID=44&category=Photosh op
you posted:
"…
please advise me some program which can
do it automatically, because I know that there are such programs. …"

Yes … Adobe has had a "plug-in" to do that since at least 1997 …

Hi,

Well, I’d also like to remove "red eye", except that it’s actually more like "green eye". These pictures of my cat demonstrate the problem:
http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye.jpg http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye2.jpg
I have Photoshop CS. When I use the red eye remover tool, it doesn’t seem to actually do anything much. It certainly isn’t magically fixing the problem. 🙂 It does however fix proper red eye on humans – just doesn’t seem to be working on my cats’ green eyes. (I guess that’s why they call it the red eye tool and not the green eye tool…)

Any advice on how to get rid of this? I’ve tried doing it manually (by painting with black) but that looks completely wrong. As you can probably tell I’m hardly an expert in this subject so any advice is appreciated. 🙂
Thanks in advance,
David
DH
David Haley
Aug 12, 2004
This day of Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:07:50 -0400, Chuck Norris proclaimed:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/david2.jpg
🙂
I’m such an ass… but…
UNIBROWIN’!!!!!! WERD!

Yup. That would be the family trade-mark. I actually kind of like it.

plus your cat looks more evil with the eyes like that.

Er, yes, but the point is to have pictures of a normal cat, not the Cat From Hell with the Eyes of Evil. 🙂


~david-haley
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Clyde
Aug 13, 2004
David Haley wrote:

This day of Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:18:23 -0500, "jjs" proclaimed:

David, if you go to CS and press the Help button, then take the Search option and type in "Red eye", you will find a neat, short page with illustrations on how to fix it. In your case – the cat with blueberry popsicle eyes – it might be quicker to reshoot the pictures without direct flash.

Actually, I already checked the help file before asking here – I’d anticipated an RTFM response. 😛 In fact, as I said in my first post, I already tried following those instructions. I apologize for calling it the ‘red-eye remover tool’ – it’s been a while and I forgot that it wasn’t a specialized tool but simply the color replacer tool.

In any case, when I use that, as I said the results aren’t terribly useful. Instead of being bright green/turquoise, it comes out bright grey.
Just to be sure, I just now followed the instructions again to show you what it looks like:
http://www.stanford.edu/~dhaley/pictures/cat_greeneye2_fixed .jpg
I can’t reshoot the pictures (since I’m not with my cats and won’t be for a while) and it’s not terribly important that the pictures be good anyways. I was just curious, and seeing the post about red eye reminded me of the problem I had with this.

At this point, is there nothing more to do than to try darkening her pupils? If that’s how it’s done I’ll just do it that way, but I was hoping that someone else had run into a problem like this and had any hints.
Thanks,
David

What I do for red eye is zoom into 200-300%, Switch to Quick Mask mode (Q), and paint the red with a soft edged brush. Then exit out of Quick Mask (Q) and inverse the selection. Go to the green channel and copy the selection. Go to the red channel and paste the selection. Repeat for the blue channel to the red.

I don’t see why this wouldn’t work for green. You just copy the red and blue channels to the green.

Clyde

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