Animal "red eye" correction

[rwklv12]

In the Vol 3 Num 5 issue of Elements Techniques pages 12 & 13 there is a procedure for eliminating green, blue or orange eye from animal pictures.

I am using Elements 4.0 and have followed the procedure several times but it fails at step 4. When I move the saturation slider all the way to the left the entire picture goes to black & white.

I have tried the procedure on my wife's computer using Elements 2 and it works as advertised.

Any suggestions?

[Juergen D]

I am not familiar with Vol 3 Num 5 issue of Elements Techniques, but here are two ways to do it.
Select the eye(s) and place it (them) on a separate layer.
Either use >Enhance >Adjust Color >Adjust Hue/Saturation and move the slider to the left
or place a Hue/Saturation layer above the layer with the eye(s), group it with previous and move the slider.

Juergen

[rwklv12]

That in essence is the procedure but as I posted when I move the slider it fails to remove the orange eye it instead turns the entire picture to B&W

[Juergen D]

That in essence is the procedure...
Which one? Did you use the Adjustment Layer? Did you group it with the layer that only contains the eye(s)?

Juergen

[rwklv12]

Hi,

I consulted with a friend and he advised me to add a couple of steps items 7 & 8 and that did the trick. Numbers 1-6 and 9 - 11 were in the article I referenced in my first post.

1. Set tolerance at 20, check Anti-Alias & Contiguous

2. Select Magic Wand – click on one eye, then SHIFT + click on the other eye

3. SELECT – GROW, if it grows outside the eyes click UNDO

4. SELECT – MODIFY – EXPAND using 2 pixels

5. SELECT – FEATHER using 1 pixel

6. CONTROL + J – to float to its own layer

7. Using the new layer & using the Magic Wand click on the body not the eyes and the eyes will be outlined

8. SELECT – INVERSE

9. Using this layer click on the CREATE ADJUSTMENT LAYER icon and select HUE/SATURATION and move the saturation slider all the way to the left. This will remove the unwanted color from the eyes.

10. Click on the CREATE ADJUSTMENT LAYER icon again and select LEVELS and slide the black (input levels) triangle from the far left toward the middle

11. SELECT – FLATTEN IMAGE to finalize the changes and save the file

Thanks for all of your inputs.

[Juergen D]

Glad to hear you got it working. :)

Juergen

[msbrad]

glad you got it working,
whatever it takes...however....
you might wish to re-read one of the steps you listed

Using this layer click on the CREATE ADJUSTMENT LAYER icon and select HUE/SATURATION and move the saturation slider all the way to the left. This will remove the unwanted color from the eyes.


It is not an adjustment layer. for either the hue/sat, or the levels
It is from the menu bar above. (enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust hue/saturation) and move the sat slider to the left. Then OK,
Then do the levels dialog the same way.

I've once assumed it was the adustment layer thing to the right too. Actually, I think I've taken a wrong turn about everywhere here. I think I practice wrong until I get it right.:)
Best of luck
m
I've used this tut. many-a-time and it works great.