| The photos you took of the party are really | | | | Eyedropper Tool to pick a colour from the |
| great - except for one thing: "red eye" makes | | | | iris of the eye - this will be fairly grey, |
| everyone look like extras from a low budget | | | | with just a hint of the eye colour. Take the |
| horror movie! Red eye can be a real problem | | | | sample from as near to the red area as you |
| if you're taking photos with a flash. It's | | | | can without picking up any of the reddish |
| caused by the reaction of light from the | | | | tint.5. In the new layer, paint over the red |
| flash on the inner workings of your eye. | | | | area with this colour. Try various tools |
| Pictures of animals (especially cats) can | | | | (brushes, pencils, Paint Bucket Tool, etc.) |
| suffer from a similar condition know as "pet | | | | to achieve the desired effect. You'll have to |
| eye".Photoshop offers a solution to this | | | | experiment and see which one works best for |
| problem, and while it can't make things look | | | | you on each particular picture - a lot will |
| exactly the way they should have been, it can | | | | depend on the photo's resolution. Be careful |
| make the people (or pets) in your pictures | | | | to avoid the "white of the eye" on pictures |
| look less "possessed".The first thing to do | | | | of people. Do small amounts at a time, that |
| is upload your photos into your computer, or | | | | way you can easily undo anything that doesn't |
| scan them in if you're working from prints, | | | | look right. If you paint over the pupil, use |
| then follow these simple steps.1. To keep | | | | the Art History Brush to expose it again, or |
| your original safe, make a copy of it by | | | | the Burn Tool to paint it in if it was |
| going to Image > Duplicate. Rename the copy | | | | obscured in the first place.6. Go to Filters |
| if you wish, then close the original.2. Open | | | | > Blur > Gaussian Blur and give the layer a |
| a duplicate window of the same image. Do | | | | blur of one or two pixels to soften the |
| this by going to Window > Documents > New | | | | edges.7. Now set the layer blend mode to |
| Window in Photoshop 7, or View > New View in | | | | saturation. If this makes the eye look too |
| Photoshop 6 or earlier. Then zoom in on one | | | | dull or grey, duplicate the layer and change |
| of the windows so that an eye fills the | | | | the blend mode of this new layer to Hue. |
| window. Set the other window's magnification | | | | This should put some of the colour back. If |
| to 100%. Arrange the windows so you can see | | | | the colour looks too strong, change the |
| them both at the same time. This will enable | | | | opacity of the Hue layer until it looks |
| you to work in close-up, but still see what | | | | right.8. When you're happy with the results, |
| the finished picture will look like. As it | | | | merge the layers down, save your work, and |
| is the same picture in both windows, the 100% | | | | start again with the next eye.Shaun Pearce is |
| view will be updated automatically in real | | | | a writer and video maker. |
| time.3. Create a new layer.4. Use the | | | | |