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Most new cameras have a pre-flash option that sends out a beam of light before it actually fires the real flash and takes the picture. That beam of light hits the pupil of people, or animal's eyes causing them to constrict, which reduces or eliminates the red eye. But if that doesn't happen, when the flash hits a dilated or partially dilated pupil the pupil appears bright red and the eyes become very unattractive. Fortunately, removing red eye is very simple. The Red Eye Tool lives underneath the Spot Healing Brush. Click on it to select it. By default, this is normally set at 50 percent and 50. Begin by zooming in so that you can see the eyes clearly. The only challenging part of using the Red Eye Tool is that you have to choose the pupil size and darken amounts ahead of time. The same darken amount will appear darker with larger pupil size amounts. The default settings of 50 percent are a good place to start. Place the cursor over the red eye and click. As you can see, with a single click I've corrected his red eye. I'll zoom in even farther. I'll click on the other one and with a single click it's corrected also. Remember that you don't want the pupil to appear completely black. You want it to look natural. If it's too dark or too light, or too large or small, press Ctrl-Z on a PC, or Command-Z on a Mac to undo it, modify one or both of these Sliders accordingly, and do it again. It's really very, very easy. And we'll fix the other red eyes here, and zoom out, and with very, very little effort we have fixed the image. Unfortunately, animals sometimes get what's called Steel Eye, where the eyes go totally white or green. The Red Eye Tool generally will not work on those problems, however, if you have an animal such as an owl that has red eye, the Red Eye Reduction Tool will certainly work on those eyes as well. You can do Red Eye Reduction in Camera Raw or in Photoshop. The advantage of doing it in Camera Raw is that you can adjust the Sliders continuously rather than having to hit Undo between attempts. Do Red Eye Reduction wherever it's easier for you and fits in most readily into your workflow.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers |
| Author: | Ellen Anon |
| SKU: | 34036 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-74-2 |
| Release Date: | 2009-09-23 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 112 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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