CHAPTER 22 THE PORTRAIT 335- Expand the selection if necessary by choosing
Tools, Modify, Expand and clicking two pixels.
The selection will expand a little. - Choose Tools, Feather, and then feather the
selection by two pixels. - Click the RGB channel again to return to the
color image. The image should switch from
black and white to color. Your eyes should
be highlighted. - Turn off the crawling ants around the eyes
by pressing Ctrl+H (in Windows) or xH (on a
Mac). - Time to fill the eyes with something darker.
Choose Edit, Fill. The Fill dialog box appears
(see Figure 22.9). Select the color black and
an opacity of 60% or higher.
You might want to add
some noise to your
changes. Choose Filter, Noise,
Add Noise. Use Uniform (not
Gaussian) and experiment with
the amount by starting at 6%.
Less is more in this situation, so
be careful.- Click OK in the Fill dialog box and then zoom out to see the results. Click
Undo and try again if 60% opacity isn’t enough.
That’s it (see Figure 22.10). This simple method retains a lot of the highlights in a
person’s eyes, but isn’t very good at actually eliminating the red color. The other
methods, which are possible in Photoshop Elements as well, are recommended.FIGURE 22.9
Fill the red eye
with a darker
color.