Photo Touch Up - Guide To Removing Red Eyes Using Adobe Photoshop

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By : Syahrul Fitri

This guide will help you fix this by doing a Photo Touch Up using Adobe Photoshop. This can be done on any version of Photoshop in less than 5 minutes. You might just have a photo which looks absolutely perfect except for the glowing "red eyes" caused by the flash of the camera.

If you have Photoshop CS2, CS3 or CS4 to start getting Photo Touch Up open the photo go to "Image" then "Duplicate" and close the original photo, to prevent losing your original picture. If you using earlier version of Photoshop which is 6 or an earlier version. go to "View" then "New View". If you have Photoshop 7 then go to "Windows" then "Documents" then "New Document". This will open a duplicate window of the same photo so that you can touch up the duplicate photo.

Try and set the zoom of the window to 100 percent. Make sure that you zoom in so the eye that you will edit is large enough and you can see it clearly . Create a new layer. Go to "Layer" and click the "Create New Layer" option. Use the eyedropper tool to get the color from the eye. Make sure that the color that you choose with the eyedropper matches the natural color of the eye you are editing. Draw over the red portion of the eye on the new layer that you have created but don't paint on the lids of the eye. Then select "Filters" then "Blur" then "Gaussian" and put the value of the radius to 1 pixel.

To get rid of the red without affecting the highlights. Also go to layer mode option and select "Saturation". But the eyes often look hollow. Duplicate the saturation layer and set the blending mode to "Hue" , until you are happy with the final result of your Photo Touch Up.

Photoshop CS2, CS3 or CS4 has "Red Eye" tool do that Photo Touch Up faster. It is easiest way to do that is to drag the background layer from the Layers palette into the "Create new layer" icon. Then take the Red Eye tool and click with it on every red eye. When you are satisfied with the result select "Layer" then "Merge Layer" or you can click on "Flatten photo" from the drop down menu in the Layers palette and you are done with your photo touch up.

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