Red Eye is no longer accurate with 08

Red Eye misses by a country mile. How can I repair the photograph that's been ruined with black blotches?

If you find that the red eye blotched out more than just the red in the eye the photo in general may have more red in it than others. One possible way around it is to use the Temperature adjust slider to temporarily make the image cooler in appearance, use the red eye tool and then reset the temperature back to its original setting. That can reduce the overflow of the red eye tool.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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Aperture makes eye purple with Red Eye Correction tool. Why? Bug?

http://www.hvmediasolutions.com/images/picture1.png
As you can see with the above picture, Aperture does not do red eye well. iPhoto gets it right, actually as well as Photoshop CS4.
Any suggestions? Or is this a bug?
And yes I could use Photoshop every time, but I am trying to do as much as I can in Aperture.
Thanks,
Ed

I have an old camera, Nikon Cool Pix 3100 and save my photos to .jpg. Yes I know, time to upgrade.
I capture straight into Aperture.
The thing that bugs me, iPhoto 08 gets it right, better than Photoshop. Aperture, since version 1, has always given me purple red eye cast on both Intel and Power PC Mac Book Pro's. Since iPhoto can get it right, Aperture should be able to.
Currently I use Pixelmator and desaturate with the brush tool for the best results.
By the way Lightroom 2 desaturates the eye to a light grey with it's red eye tool.
Different results with 4 different applications. I would love to just use one.
Ed

Red Eye removal for pets

Hi,
I'm using PE 4.0 and have been unable to get the red-eye removal tool to work with pet eye. I suspect it doesn't work because pets reflect yellow, green and even blue light instead of red. Is this a known limitation? Is there an alternative method in PE for removing pet eye?
Thanks,
Tom S.

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.
1) Use Layer 1 to preserve the glint:
a) Select the background layer and use the magic wand tool to select the saturated white glint of each eye. I like the "add to the selection" option here - saves time. Copy the pixels selected and then turn off the selections (Select|Deselect).
b) Create a new layer (Layer 1, w/ defaults of normal blending and 100% opacity), select it and paste.
2) Use the brush tool as in your Method 2 to black out the pupils:
a) Create a new layer (Layer 2, w/ defaults of normal blending and 100% opacity) as the middle layer and select it.
b) Set foreground color to default black (or use the eyedropper tool to pickup a natural dark shade near the pupil from the Background Layer).
c) Paint over the pupil in Layer 2. Layer 1 should be over Layer 2 so that the glint is preserved despite the painting of Layer 2.
I did find a bug in PE 4.0 when doing this. In panning a zoomed picture from within the editor, I somehow got the layers to be out of sync with each other. When this happened I needed to start over.
A trick that doesn't work is to use Enhance|Adjust Color to change the pupils to red and then use the Auto Red Eye fix. What happens is that the tool does not recognize the color of animal eye irises and the tool changes them into pupils with disturbing results.
Tom S.

Red-eye reduction problem

When I use the red eye reduction feature, suddenly it is putting the "fix" on the photo, not on the eye where I click to remove it. Is this a problem anyone else has had and can it fixed? I use iphoto 6.0.4.
Thanks,
Ardelle

Ardelle,
There is a hidden feature that allows you to resize and place the red-eye tool. It works with the Retouch tool, as well.
Type Caps lockControl9
Undo caps lock
Click on Retouch or the Red-Eye Removal tool.
The tab key will toggle between cursor types: a cross or a circle for Red-Eye removal tool, and between darken and lighten in the Retouch tool.
The \[ and \] keys decrease or increase the size accordingly.
NOTE: Using the { and } keys will will change the value next to the circle and that represents the degree of change or intensity that the Retouch tool imparts on each pass. To get a lighter pupil with the red-eye tool, Shift-Click inside the circular cursor.
Thanks to Old Toad for posting that tip.
Regards.

IPhoto Red Eye performing poorly

This latest version of iPhoto seems to have "backtracked" in the red eye functionality. The previous version seems to work MUCH better. Is this a known issue that is going to be addressed, or should I revert to the previous version of iPhoto. Red eye is a real problem with new digital cameras and bright children's eyes! Following all instructions, as well as tips here, the red eye is not covered, even after multiple "clicks"; the situation seems to get worse. Ideas? Patch coming? Or version downgrade?

John:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. One suggestion that has been posted as a way to get a better red eye correction is to use the cursor to create a small box around the eye and then click on the red eye button, like in the iPhoto 4 days. I've found that you have to be careful of how much area you select. If there's any red tint in the surrounding area it all gets converted.
OT

Create a "Red-Eye Pen" - A Quick Tutorial by Mathias Vejerslev

Here´s how you can create your own special Tool in Photoshop - a red eye pen for taking out... Red eye!
Open a photo with red eyes you want to eliminate.
Make a new action set, call it MyTools or similar, then start recording a new action. Call it Red eye Pen.
Hold Alt key, and go to Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer from the bottom of Layer Palette.
Call the new adjustment layer Red eye Pen.
Set these parameters (only Red channel changes):
R: r:10 g:+50 b:+40
G: r:0 g:+100 b:0
B: r:0 g:0 b:+100
Click ok.
Set opacity of adjustment layer to ~80%.
Immediately hit following keystrokes:
'Ctrl-alt-I' to invert adjustment layer.
Now press 'b' for brush tool.
Hit 'd' for default colors.
Now choose a suiting brush preset size (opacity cant be recorded).
Hit Stop in action palette.
Thats it. When you need a red eye pen, just play this action, and brush'em'away. Use the same principle to make other tools.
Mod: If you wish you can use the Action Palette´s Insert Menu Item with View>Actual Pixels to record a last step that zooms in to 100%.
Mathias

Here´s how you can create your own special Tool in Photoshop - a red eye pen for taking out... Red eye!
Open a photo with red eyes you want to eliminate.
Make a new action set, call it MyTools or similar, then start recording a new action. Call it Red eye Pen.
Hold Alt key, and go to Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer from the bottom of Layer Palette.
Call the new adjustment layer Red eye Pen.
Set these parameters (only Red channel changes):
R: r:10 g:+50 b:+40
G: r:0 g:+100 b:0
B: r:0 g:0 b:+100
Click ok.
Set opacity of adjustment layer to ~80%.
Immediately hit following keystrokes:
'Ctrl-alt-I' to invert adjustment layer.
Now press 'b' for brush tool.
Hit 'd' for default colors.
Now choose a suiting brush preset size (opacity cant be recorded).
Hit Stop in action palette.
Thats it. When you need a red eye pen, just play this action, and brush'em'away. Use the same principle to make other tools.
Mod: If you wish you can use the Action Palette´s Insert Menu Item with View>Actual Pixels to record a last step that zooms in to 100%.
Mathias

How to remove red eye from you video with adobe premiere elements?

I would be greatful if someone could let me know how to remove red eye from a video, which I will be using for my acting reel. Thank you!

Ang.Fel
What version of Premiere Elements do you have and on what computer operating system is it running?
Do you have an integrated set of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements (such as 10/10, 11/11)?
How long is this person with the red eye viewed?
There are two possibilities that I can think of, but I would have to work it through with the actual footage and adapt accordingly.
1. Keying and color correction.
2. In Premiere Elements, do a freeze frame (in Freeze Frame dialog, Edit in Photoshop Elements after Insertion + Insert in Movie Option + adjustment of duration of the Freeze Frame bmp).
In Photoshop Elements, Red Eye Tool if possible or other color correction tool there.
How did you ever get red eye in video?
ATR

What's up with Red Eye?

In CS5, when I use the red eye tool, half the person's face looks like someone boxed them into submission. The red eye goes away but the side of the face turns black and blue.

If click and release does not work, then click and drag a selection slighlty larger than the red eye.
You can also adjust with these settings

Red Eye and Healing with Content Aware

I was fortunate in being able to see the African Children's Choir in 2009 and today thought I would put some of the images through PSE 10. Issue 1 of 2: I'm not having any luck getting rid of red eye. I zoom in so that I'm hitting it dead on but instead of getting a correction, a black blob appears on their heads! My guess is that their wide orange head bands are causing confusion but why is it happening so far away from where I'm clicking? Issue 2 of 2 is a problem using the healing brush. I have Content Aware selected and have tried eliminating a couple of mic stands. No matter what size I make the brush, the program doesn't read anything correctly. I've had issues with using it on other photo's as well. Sometimes there is something I can't get it to remove not matter how many times I go over the spot. Power lines are a real annoyance when it gets everything but one bit. In desperation (and when it is possible) I have used copy and paste to get rid of things like that but using it has its own set of problems. Help!

greenturtle49 wrote:
I'm not having any luck getting rid of red eye. I zoom in so that I'm hitting it dead on but instead of getting a correction, a black blob appears on their heads! My guess is that their wide orange head bands are causing confusion but why is it happening so far away from where I'm clicking?
Here's a photo for practicing that I found on the Web:
If you hit the "Auto" button on the Options bar for the RedEye Removal tool, does it work?
My settings for the RER tool are
Pupil Size: 50%
Darken Amount: 50%
Can you manually remove the red eye in this photo?
If not, click on the down arrow at the far left of the Options bar and select "Reset Tool", then try again.
If everything works OK on this image, then we'd have to see your problem picture to test.
greenturtle49 wrote:
Issue 2 of 2 is a problem using the healing brush. I have Content Aware selected and have tried eliminating a couple of mic stands. No matter what size I make the brush, the program doesn't read anything correctly.
Show us the problem photo and the result you get when you use the tool.
greenturtle49 wrote:
Sometimes there is something I can't get it to remove not matter how many times I go over the spot. Power lines are a real annoyance when it gets everything but one bit. In desperation (and when it is possible) I have used copy and paste to get rid of things like that but using it has its own set of problems. Help!
Yes, sometimes the Spot Healing Brush doesn't completely remove all the bits. Sometimes repeating 4 times does it, sometimes going across the area at a right angle to the original path of the Spot Healing Brush does it. If not, there's nothing to do but use the Clone Tool to clean things up. One thing about the Spot Healing Brush is that the larger the size of the brush used, the wider the area it "pulls in" to do the healing. Try setting the brush size very small. Here's an example of what I mean:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3849808#3849808
The Spot Healing Brush can be difficult to use with power lines, especially lines that are close together. Again, try setting the brush size very, very small, and going across the former path of the line (at a right angle) to clean up the leftovers. There's also a free filter, Wire Worm, which can help:
http://www.vicanek.de/plugins/wireworm.htm
Ken

How do I retrieve the tone panel in Lightroom 5 (with the sliders for exposure, contrast, vibrancy etc which sits under the crop, red eye etc icons)

How do I retrieve the tone panel in Lightroom 5 ( with the sliders for exposure, contrast, vibrancy etc which sits under the icons for cropping, red eye etc)?

On a PC, right-click (Mac Cmd-click) on one of the other panel headings such as Tone Curve, Detail, etc. In the context menu that displays, make sure there is a checkmark in Basic. Another quick way to do it is Ctrl->1 or Cmd->1.

Why when I edit a picture with photo to remove red eyes an then open in Snapseed red eyes are still there?

Hi
Firstofall I must excuse for my really bad English
I have ann iPad 2 updated with IOS 5.0.1. I use camaraderie connection kit to import photos from the SD memory card. Then I browse them with the default photo app, and I make some corrections like removing red eyes effect. Then if I open the corrected photo with Snapseed the red eyes appear again. I have tried many times and I am sure that I save changes. If I browse the photos again I see it correctly. It is like corrections are not really stored in the picture but Ina sidecar file.
Thanks in advance!!!!

Thanks for your answer razmee209!!
Yes, and it shows the picture with corrections.. This is what is strange to me.
I'm amateur photographer and on computer I use Adobe Lightroom. There when a edition is made, changes are not stored in the original file, but written in a separate xmp file or in the catalog. So if you try to open an edited photo you cannot see corrections. To get the corrected file in another app you need to export the photo, this is create a new file with the correncions applied in it. For me it seems like photo app in IOS work like that.

Has anyone experience a bug with red eye correction in LR 5?

No matter what I do, anytime I try to use the red-eye correction tool, I get the message "Unable to find red eye". Even in pictures where the red eye is huge and clearly visible. Has anything changed in LR 5 that would cause this? I have Red Eye Correction enabled. Anyone else experiencing this?
I'm a rather new LR user, so I'd be grateful for someone pointing me in the right direction before I file a bug report.
Thanks!

runningkatze wrote:
Thanks Rob...
You bet .
runningkatze wrote:
In LR 4, the tools seemed so much more forgiving. In LR 5, it is incredible sensitive.
I don't think there have been any algorithmic changes in red-eye, Lr5 vs. Lr4 (certainly none mentioned by Adobe, nor in Victoria Bampton's very thorough list of changes in Lr5, nor that I've noticed in the forums...), so if it is behaving differently (you sure it's not you? ), then it sounds like something is a-wonk now in your Lr5 (or was a-wonk before in your Lr4 ).
~R.

Help with red eye

I can't believe I can't get my red eye tool to work. The easiest tool in the program.
When I click on the red eye, I can't get the pupil slider or the darken slider to move to the right.
Essentially the red eye removal tool doesn't work for me.
Help please.
Andy

It is well explained in some of the other Red Eye threads nearby.
Don
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Problems with previously applied red eye corrections

I imported my Aperture 2 library and see that some images that had red eye correction before aren't corrected in AP3. It isn't universal and sometimes one person's eye would be corrected while the other would be red, even though the adjustments indicated both had been corrected.
Anyone else see this?

Me, too. I tried reapplying the red eye on a couple of pictures. After I clicked on the red eye tool, my previous red eye corrections appeared as the target icons on the pictures, but the red eyes didn't get corrected. There doesn't seem to be any way I can correct them, now.

Can I remove red eye in Final Cut Pro X?

I've imported over a thousand pictures from iPhoto of my trip to California, and was wondering if I could remove red eye from photos without having to go back to iPhoto, fix the red eye, then reimport.

matthew97 wrote:
OK, I thought he was saying that since consumer apps already do it, a professional app has to have the feature. Anyways, I guess I'll just have to reimport it.
Many of the Pro users are (rightly IMO) very ticked off with FCP X as it no longer supports many important Pro features that they use daily and is currently unsuitable for use by many for commercial/professional work.
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Red Eye is no longer accurate with 08

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