Red-eye refers to an effect in photographs in which the eyes of people appear reddish in colour. This occurs due to reflection of the flash from the subjects’ eyes in the picture.
To remove this effect in Photoshop, use the following steps.
To remove this effect in Photoshop, use the following steps.
1. Open the image.
2. Go to Image > Duplicate and close the original.
3. Go to Window > Documents > New Window. This will open a duplicate window of the same image.
4. Zoom one of the windows so that you can see the eyes as large as possible. Set the other window view to 100 per cent.
5. Arrange the two windows so you can see both the zoomed view and the 100 per cent
view at the same time.
6. Create a new layer.
7. Use the eyedropper to pick up a colour from the iris of the eye. It should be a fairly grey tint with a hint of the eye colour.
8. Paint over the red part of the eye on the new layer, being careful not to paint over the eyelids.
9. Go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur and give it about a 1 pixel blur to soften the edges.
10. Set the layer blend mode to Saturation. This will take the red out without removing the highlights, but in many cases it leaves the eyes too grey and hollow looking.
11. If that’s the case, duplicate the saturation layer and change the blend mode to Hue. That should put some colour back in, while still preserving the highlights.
12. If the colour is too strong after adding a Hue layer, lower the opacity of the Hue layer.
13. When you’re happy with the results you can merge the extra layers down.
Below are the Before and After images which is fixed using this technique.
Also keep the following in mind.
a. If you need to darken the pupil area, use the burn tool. It should only take a couple of taps with the burn tool to darken the pupils.
b. Before merging your layers, use the eraser tool to clean up any overspray from painting outside the iris.
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