Ever seen green eye's

[Quick Cal]

When I take doggie pic's, I seem to get green eye's. If you look at the link, click on full size, you can see it on the dog on the left. I tried the red eye tool, but it does nothing. Any idea's how to get the green out. Thank's, Cal


http://community.webshots.com/album/230745580PMOFut?548

[PhilR.]

It is the same thing as human redeye, both of which is caused by the light of the flash bouncing off the back of the eyeball.

Before the picture is taken: Try to use natural light as much as possible, and if not possible, try redeye-reduction mode, if present.

After the picture is taken: I don't know if the redeye erase feature in the average photo software just keys off the red, but you might try a program that allows you to "airbrush" a different color over the green. I think microsoft "paint" in the accessories section of the included computer software might allow you to do this.

PhilR.

[Puck]

I tried the red eye tool, but it does nothing. Any idea's how to get the green out. Thank's, Cal


The red eye tool in Paint Shop Pro has a feature under red eye called animal eye. It works very well. It also allows you to outline the shape of the green portion you wish to blacken - great for cats which do not have round pupils. I image other "high end" editing programs have a similiar feature.

[Quick Cal]

Thank's for the idea's guy's. I have Element's 3. I'll take a look in there and see what I can find. Hopefully it has the animal eye's. I didn't have any luck trying to paint them. Cal

[ReF]

I just zoom in real close and carefully (doesn't take much skill) use the burn tool at 50% +. I start by selecting "highlights" as the range, then move on to "midtones" as the highlights get darker and then on to "shadows''. it should look good but something might seem a bit off. that something is probably the missing glare that is usually seen on the dark part of the eyes. You can either draw this in with a white "Pencil Tool" at the 1 pixel size and draw it in the shape of a jelly bean, cresent, or lobsided oval/circle (it should be so small that it looks real when zoomed out) or for a more accurate look you could cut and paste the "eyeball glare" off of another picture. please excuse the simple terms i used.