Saturday, March 31, 2007

Red Eye Reduction

This is one of the basic things to learn in photoshop. Family photos, friends, animal shots or may be your client that shots at night using flash can easily get red eye. The Red Eye tool removes red eye in flash photos of people and white or green reflections in flash photos of animals. Open Photo in photoshop and using symbol magnifying glass available on side tool bar zoom in the red eye to get better view then. Select Red Eye tool. (Can be found on the side tool bar where the symbol is an eye, If you cannot see the symbol of an eye try to find the healing tool where the symbol of bandage. Click long to open option and click red eye reduction)

Click in the red eye. If you are not satisfied with the result, undo the correction, set one or more of the following options in the options bar, and click the red eye again:

Pupil Size - Sets the size of the pupil (dark center of the eye).

Darken Pupil - Sets the darkness of the pupil.

Red eye is caused by a reflection of the camera flash in the subject’s retina. You’ll see it more often when taking pictures in a darkened room because the subject’s iris is wide open. To avoid red eye, use the camera’s red eye reduction feature. Or, better yet, use a separate flash unit that you can mount on the camera farther away from the camera’s lens.