I need to doctor some red-eye photos. Suggestions? Not sure how to do it. Also, what causes red-eye? Flash? -Alison

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Ali Folendore
Designer for Scrapbook-Bytes and Inspiration-Lane

Hey Ali! Here's one way to do it:

http://www.escrappers.com./redeyes.html

"Red eye happens when the light from the flash reflects off the retina of the eyes." (out of my rebel manual) Usually a red-eye reducer will flash twice. Once to 'close' the pupil and then the second time with the pic.

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Thanks, I thought it had something to do with flash b/c I noticed that I don't get it when I turn the flash off. I will check out escrappers. I must have overlooked it there, I really like his tutorials! Thanks again! -Alison

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Ali Folendore
Designer for Scrapbook-Bytes and Inspiration-Lane

I can see how the technique at escrappers can come in handy. It was really easy and worked well on most of mine that needed to be doctored. But, I have this one photo of our nephew from christmas that is a close-up and the red-eye is very bad. Attached is the before and after of the me trying to fix it, but the pupils aren't red anymore but still not right. Anymore suggestions?

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Ali Folendore
Designer for Scrapbook-Bytes and Inspiration-Lane

Wow! these poor little eyes really got it bad!! I have an action, I a pretty sure that I downloaded from the Adobe site which does a great job but I tried it on these and the result was pretty similar to yours. Wish I could help! Meryl

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Meryl (KwaZulu Natal South Africa)
Design Team Member at DSP

Thanks Meryl. I have two photos taken that are bad like this. I don't think this one is going to be easy! -Alison

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Ali Folendore
Designer for Scrapbook-Bytes and Inspiration-Lane

ROFLOL!

I'm sorry Ali- I know I shouldn't laugh, but that 2nd photo was just too funny!

One time I did a bday card with a dog on it that had a serious case of evil eye! I found another very similar photo and did a little cutting and pasting on the layer above and Viola! it turned out perfect. Of course that only works if you have a similar photo.

Hope you can fix it cuz he sure looks like a cutie!

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~Laurie Garza~

Very good idea Laurie - as you say he is sooo cute! I once used this technique for shut eyes - a group at our grandsons christening all looking fabulous except one gentleman who got caught with his eyes shut! Fortunately there was another similar shot of him & after an eye transplant all was well. Good luck with it Alison! Meryl

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Meryl (KwaZulu Natal South Africa)
Design Team Member at DSP