pet eyes

[terrilady]

Hello,
I am working on some pics of my dogs and in one of the pics his eyes need fixed and the red eye fix will not correct it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

[swalkr]

Here is a link to a really good tutorial that I just used yesterday.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/redeyeremoval/ss/peteye.htm

[terrilady]

Thanks I will take a look at it as I have 4 dogs and the always have the green eyes.:)

[Inspeqtor]

Suzanne,

I also want to thank you for posting that pet eye tutorial :)

[Wendy]

Hi ...

I do PET eyes using the same method as I use for Red eye ... except I select Yellow and/or Green from the Hue & Saturation edit box.

Select the red area plus a few pixels ... feather a little.
Enhance>Colour>Hue & Sat> ... select red from the edit box and reduce saturation to zero or thereabouts
Enhance>Brightness & Contrast>Levels .. move the left hand marker in about a third of the way and move the centre marker over to the right until the area goes dark ... not too far or it will look artificial.

Wendy :)

[genevh]

Red eye / PET eye is generally caused by your flash being too close to your lens. If you're using a P&S with built in flash, this can be a big problem. The light from the flash in this instance gets reflected right back to the lens from the retina, resulting in the eye problems. The easiest way to fix it is to get the flash as far away from the lens as possible. Ie: if your camera has a hot shoe, get a flash unit that will work for your camera.

Another way is to bounce and/or diffuse the flash. Bounce the flash off the ceiling, for example, so it is not reflected directly back at the lens. You will also find your flash pictures may start looking better by doing this.

If your camera only has a pop up flash and no hot shoe, you can either buy or make a diffuser for it. See this site (http://store.garyfonginc.com/puf-01.html) for an example of what I mean. That is neither an endorsement or an attempt to get you to buy that particular diffuser, just an example to show. ;)