REMOVING SPOTS AND RED EYE
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Red Eye is caused when light from your camera flash
reflects off the blood vessels at the back of the eye and is
most visible in low light when the pupils are widely dilated. Even
if your flash has anti-Red Eye pre-flash it can still be a problem.
You can remove Red Eye from your shots using the Red Eye
Removal tool.
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The Red Eye Removal tool also works with pet’s eyes,
although due to the nature of cat and dog eyes, they’re
usually green or yellow rather than red. Click on the Pet
Eye button on the tool option panel and then use the same
procedure that you did for a human eye; click and drag
outwards from the centre of the eye.2
The Red Eye Removal tool is very simple to use. When you
activate the tool you’ll see a cross-shaped mouse cursor.
Simply place this over the centre of an affected eye and drag an
elliptical shape outwards until it covers the entire eye. Release
the Mouse button and the tool will automatically detect and
correct the redness.
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As with human eyes you do have the option to manually
increase or decrease the pupil size but there is no option
to darken, since it will set to maximum darkness automatically.
There is an option to add catchlights in the eyes though, which
is strangely missing from the tool options for human eyes. The
results are usually excellent.4
Repeat the same procedure with the other eye. If you’re
not happy with the result, reset the image and try again;
the automatic process isn’t perfect and a second try may do
better. You can also manually adjust the size and darkness of
the fake pupil that it superimposes by adjusting the two sliders
in the tool options panel.3
As noted above, make sure the elliptical shape covers the
entire eye, not just the pupil. You may think you just need
to cover the red area of the eye, but the tool works by using the
shape of the iris and the pupil. If you drag the ellipse over the
pupil alone, you will see that the redness reduction is confined to
a very small area. Adjust the ellipse accordingly.
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