Things You'll Need:
- Media computer with high resolution screen
- Good graphics card
- Large RAM capacity to open and work with multiple files
- Digital photos
- Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Patience
- Time to practice
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Step 1
Open the image file you want to correct.
Select the tool box, then drag a small rectangle over the pupil of the eye. In the Options bar, enter attributes to these options:
Brush size: 1/3 the diameter of the pupil
Mode: Luminosity
Sampling: Once
Limits: Contiguous
Tolerance: 50% (or any percentage between 48%-52%)
Anti-aliasing: Yes
Click in the red area (or whatever the color of the reflection, i.e.green, yellow, silver) and paint around within the pupil, avoiding the primary reflection. -
Step 2
When painting, the Sponge tool enables you to adjust the color saturation areas in your image. To remove red eye with the Sponge tool, Options > Desturate then set the Flow to 100%.
Note: The Sponge tool is nested with the Burn and Dodge tools in the tool box. -
Step 3
Use a brush tip size a little smaller than the pupil and drag the tool in a small circle within the pupil. Desaturating eliminates the unwanted color from the pupil area and leaving behind a grayscale pattern.
In case of the resulting pupil may seem too pale or unnatural in color, use the Burn tool (select Shadows and the Exposure at 50%, experiment with your own percentage) to darken the area. -
Step 4
You can also fix red eye problems using: Image > Adjustments > Selective Color. Then,
(1) Make a selection of the pupils to change. Drag the Elliptical Marquee tool, or trace Polygonal Lasso tool around one pupil, then hold down the Shift key and drag around the other pupil.
(2) Click the Absolute button at the bottom of the Selective Color box and drag the Black slider to 100%.
(3) Switch from Reds to Neutrals from the menu at the top. Again drag the Black slider to the right, repeat for the other eye.
