How to Remove Red Eye from an Image – Photoshop Photo Editing Lesson

November 23, 2008

An excellent picture can be destroyed by a red eye effect. Good thing it can be repaired by using the Red Eye tool in Photoshop CS2 from Photoshop Elements 3. This particular tool is very effective in various red eye images without affecting or causing changes to the default settings. It is done simply by clicking on the affected eye in the photo, so that is one click on each eye. The red eye tool in Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop Elements 3 are just the same.

A special Red-eye Brush tool comes in Photoshop Elements, although, using this may not all the time provide excellent results. The following is a red-eye removing method that applies to almost every situation.

1. Click to open the file photo.

2. Click the View menu, then open a new copy of the window by clicking New View.

3. Focus one window to have a bigger view of the eyes and the other window having the normal view or the actual size.

4. Make sure the layers palette is visible. Click on Window then Show Layers to have a visual.

5. At the lowermost part of the layers palette, click on the button “create a new layer”.

6. Make use of the blending mode menu found at the upper part of the layers palette to switch the blending mode of the new layer to Color.

7. Choose the replacement eye color on the foreground color swatch found in the tool box.

8. Choose the paintbrush tool.

9. Select a soft-edged brush from the options bar that is somewhat smaller than the part with the red eye. Click the opacity to set it to as low as thirty percent.

10. Slowly paint over the red part of the eyes, making sure not to overlap with the white part of the eyes or the skin part. Increase the zoom to view the area better and have more control.

The following steps can be followed on the other hand using any version of Photoshop.

1. See the Image.

2. Make a copy of the image and keep the first.

3. If you are using Photoshop 6 or below, click on “View” and then “New View”. If you are using Photoshop 7, drag the cursor and click on “Window”, then “Documents” and then “New Window”. The result will be the opening of a copy window of that image.

4. Focus one window to have a bigger view of the eyes. Adjust the second window view to 100 percent.

5. Adjust both windows so you can check on both the bigger view and the 100 percent image together.

6. Make another layer.

7. Utilize the eyedropper to capture a color from the eye’s iris. The color should be in gray tint with a shade of the color of the eye.

8. On the red portion of the eye, paint a new layer. Be sure to avoid painting on the eyelids.

9. Click “Filters”, then “Blur”, followed by “Gaussian” and allow one pixel to make the edges have a soft effect.

10. Adjust to “Saturation” the blend mode of the layer. The result will be taking out the red eye but not affecting the highlights. Although most conditions leave the eyes much more gray and looking hollow.

11. In this situation, make a copy of the saturation layer and revise the mode blend to “Hue”. The result will be the color returning for a while and at the same time retaining the highlights.

12. In case the result is a very strong Hue after putting on a layer of “Hue”, set down the Hue layer’s opacity.

13. If you are contented with the output, you may now combine the added layers.

Tips:

• The Burn tool can be used to make the pupil area dark.
• The Eraser tool can be used to remove excess spray.

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