Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration Tutorials
Cool Stuff / Red Eye
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We are going to use this photograph to demonstrate corrections in three different areas. We are going to get rid of red eye. We've got some really severe red eye situations here. We are going to replace body parts, and we are going to make improvements to skin, to try to improve the appearance of skin and maybe roll back a little bit of ageing. Dad in the middle, my brother on the right and my lovely afro on the left, funny picture, my dad's wedding in 1975 and boy were we studly. Alright, let us get rid of my brother's red eye here. Everybody has got a process for getting rid of red eye and I have developed my own process and I think it works very well, at least for me anyway. We are going to use a seldom used tool to establish a selection. Do not use the magic wand tool too frequently because it is just not adequate. We use select color range more than anything else, but in this particular case, it is not going to do very well. So we are going to use the magic wand tool and set the tolerance at forty, click on that and then push down the shift key so that you can go to another area of the image and select another area. Okay, we want two selections simultaneously in the same image. And you will notice right around the edge here we really have not picked up all of the red and we want to do that, yet we want to keep the orange in the middle, because there needs to be a little bit of a reflection off the cornea here, in order for this photograph to really look good. So we are going to expand the selection, go to modify - expand, and six pixels is a bit much; let's get down to three and that is too much. Alright, so let's go back to it and let's go to one and I think that is going to make it, that is going to be about right. And then, very simply, all we do is go up to image - adjustments, you know we really should do an adjustment layer. Bring this down right about there, and we also want to bring down the dark to darken the pupil and that is going to work very well, and then let us flatten this, so that we can then go back and do a little bit of smudge, a bit of blur. We have to be careful with this because you can really overdo it pretty easily. We get 50% strength here and what we want to do is try to blend this contrast in the eye, we are going to paint this just a little bit, because this looks weird. Now at a distance it looks okay; I am a bit picky because I want this to look really good, I am trying to demonstrate this to you how to get it to look as good as possible. Not looking too bad, we have very little reflection right here. I think what we want to do is pick up this piece of reflection right here. Come on, do not tell me we are so zoomed in that we do not have enough. You know what? Let's bring the feathering down, see if that doesn't correct it. There you go, alright. Then we are going to pick us up a layer and we are going to carry this over to here, place it thusly, and really just kind of improve the reflection there, so it looks a little bit more natural. Let us take a look, see what we have got. And now let us go over and do mine, I've only got red eye in one eye, so you get right up on it. Let us expand by one pixel to pick everything up, the saturation layer we go up like this, then we bring darkness down, we say OK. Then we merge the visible because we have more than one layer. So let's just bring everything together and then we go get our blur tool. It is already set at fifty percent, we come in here, we just blend it a little bit, you know just to make it so it will not have so much contrast. And let's zoom out. How does that look? Now it looks goofy, doesn't it? It looks goofy because we've got a different reflection here than we do here, so I think we are going to do the exact same thing. We are going to go in tight right here, we are going to move this over here and zoom out, it looks little better doesn't it?
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33473 |
| ISBN: | 1932072705 |
| Release Date: | 2004-01-27 |
| Duration: | 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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