Black eyes mysteriously appear in my photos

[Greg Richey]

I have had PSE versions 2,3,4 and 6 and have recently noticed a problem. I have family photos that are somehow aquiring black eyes when they are viewed with PSE 6. I mean one person in the phot looks like they were punched in the eye. I started to try and fix them but then decided to open the same files in PSE 4. They look fine in PSE 4. They look just like they did when I last viewd the. Anyone have any ideas on what this could be? A virus... or glitch in the software? Any thoughts are appreciated!

Greg Richey

[Juergen D]

It is probably the automatic Red Eye Removal tool. Go into the Preferences, both for Editor and Organizer and turn the feature off in all instances.

Juergen

[Greg Richey]

I did have all of the automatic redeye correction disabled in PSE6. I thought I did but since it was only happening around the eyes I thought that might be the cause so I checked again. This is very strange?

[Juergen D]

Also, when you click on >Get Photos in Organizer, just about every option has a check box for Automatically Fix Red Eyes. Be sure it is unchecked there, too.

Juergen

[Greg Richey]

I did have the automatically fix red eyes box checked in the >Get photos menu. I unchecked it and a few of the photos seemed to fix themselves? The others I am thinking I will need to delete from the catalog and retrieve again. Like I said in PSE4 they all look fine it is just PSE6 that is doing this. Thanks alot for your help Juergan.

[John Richardson]

Greg,

I had simular problems a few weeks ago after scanning an image into PSE6, not sure what causes this to happen but both people in the image had black eyes.

I resolved the issue by closing then re opening the file in PSE6.

Maybe someone out their can tell us why this happens.