(Drag the Elliptical Marquee tool around one pupil, then hold down the Shift key and drag around the other pupil.) Click the Absolute button at the bottom of the Selective Color dialog box and drag the Black slider to +100% (all the way to the right). Make a selection of the pupils to isolate the adjustment. Selective Color You can also reduce red eye with the Image> Adjustments> Selective Color command. (The desaturated green eye is shown above, and below you see the result of desaturating and burning.) Use the Burn tool (set to Shadows and 50% Exposure) to darken the area.
In some cases of red eye (and typically with green eye corrections) the resulting pupil may seem a little too light. Desaturating removes the red from the area, leaving behind a grayscale pupil. (Flow determines the strength of the desaturation – how efficiently the tool works.) You can use a brush tip size just a little smaller than the pupil and drag the tool in a small circle within the pupil. To reduce red eye, make sure that the tool is set to Desaturate in the Options bar, and that the Flow is 100%. This tool enables you to adjust the saturation of areas in your image by painting. Sponge tool The rarely-used Sponge tool is nested with the Dodge and Burn tools in Photoshop’s Toolbox. In the Options bar, I generally recommend these options:īrush size: one-third the diameter of the pupilĬlick in the red or green area and paint around within the pupil, avoiding the primary reflection. (Generally speaking, the default settings are perfectly adequate.)Ĭolor Replacement tool Effective on both red eye and green eye, you paint over the pupil manually. To use the tool, select it in the Toolbox, then drag a small rectangle encompassing the pupil of the eye. Red Eye tool Borrowed from Photoshop Elements, the Red Eye tool is available in Photoshop CS2. Here’s a look at some excellent red eye – and green eye – reduction techniques: Photoshop’s Red Eye tool has no effect on green eye, since it works in part by identifying the color “red.” Here’s an example of severe green eye. For example, if you take photos of family pets, you’ve likely discovered green eye, the pet-equivalent of red eye. From the top compare: the original, the Red Eye tool (Photoshop CS2 only), the Color Replacement tool, the Brush tool (using black, the Multiply blending mode, and 60% opacity), the Sponge tool, and the Selective Color command.Īll of the techniques work fairly well – but you may find situations in which one or another works better than the others. In this figure, you see a comparison of five red eye reduction techniques. While most cameras have a “red eye reduction” feature (which uses a pre-flash to shrink the subjects irises before taking the photo), it’s not always practical to use that feature. Most common in portraits and group photos, it’s generally a problem when the subject is looking directly at the camera. Red eye is the condition that occurs when a camera’s flash reflects off the back of a person’s eye. Ask a group of photographers which is the best way to minimize red eye and sparks are sure to fly! There are almost as many ways to minimize red eye using Photoshop as there are people using Photoshop.
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