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RED EYES

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:47 pm
by pek499
Please can anyone tell me how to take photos of my dog tucker with out the eyes always comming out red....i have the eye on my camera and it stills makes his eyes red...please help..thanks

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:07 am
by madlights
Some photo software allows you to eliminate red eyes pretty easily, and adjust the color you want to eliminate (and some only do red) since animals often come out with yellow or white reflections...I can't remember which programs do and which don't among the free ones. Do a google search for fastone viewer, photoexplorer (there is a free one I think still and it allows change) The software that came with your camera if it's digital may do this too. Some others are irfanview, gimp, picassa. Look on Cnet too for free photo editors.
Another solution and one of the only for film, is to try and get your flash unit as far from the lens as you can. That way you don't get the reflection directly back at you as much.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:08 am
by djwixx
This might help explain why it happens and give you ideas on stopping it.
http://www.colorpilot.com/redeye_effect.html

Essentially if your using a flash you are more than likely going to get the effect so it is probably easier to remove the issue after the fact.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:38 am
by camera0bug
Of course, if you can skip the flash....

...no red eye!

Photobot

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:48 pm
by nchlfot
I use Photobot on my pictures. It has auto red eye reduction. I get green eyes on my cats. I need green eye software.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:56 pm
by dang
You can find PS plugin's and instructions for removal of pet red eye with other programs here: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/redeye ... Photos.htm
:wink:

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:19 pm
by castledude
Both Ulead PhotoImpact and Corel PSP have native support for green eyes, red eyes and yellow eyes (dogs). PSP has some really elaborite features for correction.

I use an external flash to get rid of it.

Thanks

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:23 pm
by nchlfot
Thanks for the tips on yellow/green/white eyes Castledude and Dang. I don't know if it's worth that much truoble for my cats. I have about a billion pictures of them. I guess if it ever came down to one being really important, I will try one of these tricks.