Red Eye question Please

[Froggy]

How do you remove red eye so that the eye remains natural looking, this may be a bit more dificult in my situation.

I have picture of a Large Red Tail Hawk taken with my Canon 20d and my 580ex strobe, the hawk has a very large retina so the whole eye is pink, How can I remove the pink and still maintain a natural looking eye.

Thanks in advance

Steve

[Wendy]

Hi Steve ...

Not sure if it will work but its worth trying this:

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.

Hope that it works :)

Wendy

[Daviskw]

Steve if you have grants tools there is another way to repair red eye and keep catch lights and color.

You make a 1 or 2 pixel feathered selection of the pupils. Change the channel to green and copy the green channel pupil into memory.

Change to the red channel and paste the green channel pupil to the red channel. Change to the blue channel and paste the green channel again.

Change back to RGB you should be ok

Butch