Photoshop question?

[zoe08]

I havent used PS very much but I am trying to fix some pics I took at a friends wedding. Im learning to brighten some and such, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me a way I could get rid of red eyes?? Thanks!!

[srwatters]

Ummm... The red-eye tool? Hides under the healing brush tool in CS2. I think it's in Elements and CS also. Works well, just watch the settings.

[Hogleg 44]

If you have an earlier version you may be able to Google up a few free actions that will do the job. If you don't mind buying one, here is a good one from Fred Miranda. http://www.fredmiranda.com/shopping/Redeye

[jordankreationz]

Just make the picture in PS about 800%. Then go in with red eye brush (or just small paint brush with dark color) and paint the pixels. Once finished zoom back out and see the final result. If satisfied, save....if not undo back to beginning and then try again. Oh and always use a copy of the original...then if it gets messed up you still have the original to recopy and work with again.
Most likely not the most technical answer you'll get but...maybe it will help.

DJ

[Charloto]

I always use the Color Replacement tool for red eye and for green eye (with animals). Just set the color to black and zoom in and paint over the red areas. I like this better than just using a dark color with the paintbrush tool, I think it looks more natural.

[adam7731]

I like the results from using the elliptical marquee tool (AKA Circle tool) and selecting both red spots. You can do that by using the shift key to make your second selection.

With the red spots selected then you go to the layers menu and at the bottom of the menu you will see a ying yang looking symbol. It’s for creating a new adjustment layer. Now with the new adjustment layer you have a mask you go into the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and select red in the pull down then you take all the saturation out and adjust the lightness to your desired effect.

It may sound complicated but its really easy and it looks really natural. That was how the retouching books explained how to fix red eye. This is of course pre CS. Even with CS2 I still use this method. The nice thing is that you can select that adjustment layer you can add to the mask with a black brush or take away from the mask with a white brush. Very nice when you just need to get that little bit of red out.

[zeroendless]

If you like to learn how to use PS instead of action or quick fix...

Polygonal Lasso>Use new selection>Default feather to 0 >select one eye ball.
Click on add to selection > select 2nd eye ball.
select>feather>value of 2 if the selection is big enough> Ctr C to copy, ctr P to paste into new layer.
select that new layer>image>hue/sat>adjust sat and lightness. OR...
select that new layer>image>selective color>adjust red in diff levels.
This is optional... use burn/dodg at 4-5% to fine turn the new eyes match to light on face...

Now you get to keep fixed eyes on seperate layer, further adjustment can be made anytime as you please.

This is just one way out of 100 how to use ps to fix red eyes....You can use the same procedure for whitening teeth.

[Gordon]

I usually just use a suitably sized (about quarter the size of the eye) soft edged desaturation brush and just take the colour out.

[zoe08]

thanks everyone for the help!! I will be taking a class next semester and learning how to use PS but for now I just needed something that sounded easy that I could do cuz I really dont know much about it yet. Thanks again!!!

[h00kemh0rns]

Zoe...I'd say save your money on a class and get a couple books. Much better reference along with whatever you can google