Red Eye

shopbot

Please can I have peoples tips for removing red eye from photos. I am trying to do it using a software package (as opposed to when the photo is taken).

I have tried Paint Shop Pro which seems to make no difference as does Irfanview. Picassa seems to be quite good. Are there any tricks or hints on how to get a successful outcome?

rogerramjet

paintshop pro works very well, have you gone to menu "Adjust" then down to red eye removal? I've edited untold red eye photos with PSP over the years and never found a problem

cymro1170

I've just installed Paint Shop Pro X (Paint Shop Pro 10) and the Red Eye Tool in it is the best I've seen!

PSP X also has a teeth whitening feature too - which I found usefull

yelac21271

You wanna try Picasa2 its free as well

http://picasa.google.com/

cargo

In photoshop>select the eyes with Circle marque tool>go to image>adjustments>selctive colour choose red and pull the red slider across to the right.You can do this as many times as you like.
If the first pass dont work.
Can also be done with the yellon channel for teeth whitening.

shopbot

I'm persevering with Paint Shop Pro 9. I've managed to get the red eye tool working however the result does not look at all realistic. It looks like I've used the airbrush tool on the eye!

espresso

Try the red-eye reduction tool in Irfanview which a very useful and free program.

https://www.irfanview.com

T4i

cymro1170 wrote:

PSP X also has a teeth whitening feature too - which I found usefull

Where is this? We can all look like superstars now.

EvilMonkey

cargo wrote:

In photoshop>select the eyes with Circle marque tool>go to image>adjustments>selctive colour choose red and pull the red slider across to the right.You can do this as many times as you like.
If the first pass dont work.

These steps desaturate the red channel, so may look a bit odd (almost grey sometimes). I find a second step of darkening the same selection puts backs the "natural" colours there...

coolagarry

I use irfanview to remove redeye but I agree that it doesn't always work. I find the best way is to press the + button to enlarge the picture so that the eye pupil is big. It is then easier to ensure that the whole area is 'lasooed' before clicking the 'remove red eye' button