Pet Eye fix, by Sue Chastain

There is always a question of how to fix pet eye reflections, and there are lots of ways. But here is one by Sue Chastain that is really quick and easy,
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/redeyeremoval/ss/peteye.htm
Her photos and examples are great, as usual.
I did a bunch of pictures of a Golden Retriever this morning, they came out well.
Jane

this is a newly discovered news source .... I like it...
believe it or not.. it is a microsoft thing ( bing news ).
http://www.bing.com/news
what i like is that its just a sorta clearing house of listed news items from all sorts of places ( ny times, idaho banner, boston cryer, AP, etc etc. )
no ads is what I noticed right off.. ( you do get the news source page ads on those websites but not the stupid "preliminary " video / animation ads normally associated with links within those orgs.... like ....if you clk on a usa today link..you get some stupid ad obsuring page you want to see.. so you close that so you can get where you want ).
none of that happens from bing news that I saw ... the samples i tried ...you just go to the 'page'.
Thank goodness.. a listing of news items that seem up to date and is just simple news.
I have no problem with advertising and like the fact that so many people make the stuff ( earn livings making ads ). some are beautiful and some are really stupid.. but so what?
what I dont get, in a general sense.. is how come so many people selling newspapers online think that ads will actually " work " in the instantaneous wold of computer online stuff...
OK.. I know google and yahoo and newspapers online do get advertisers to pay for spots on the websites.. but personally i think all that is simply cause of some phenomenom re: volume of hits...
I suppose some people do look at the ads and buy the stuff...but I dont. If I want to read an article about stalins daughter that just died I dont clik on that link and then decide to buy a movado watch instead. Or a mercedes.
Its just not what I'm looking for at the moment when browsing news items.
Its amazing that this world keep functioning at all if you ask me.

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Thanks for the tips. I searched for Wendy Williams' suggestions in the forum but haven't found them.
I've been experimenting with both of Mark's procedures in the meantime. Method 2 gave the best results when I modified it to preserve the glint in my pet's eyes. The modified Method 2 (using PE 4.0) is as follows.
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