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