Red Eye Removal not working

I am using 1.3.1 and started out using the original version of lightroom that was released. I have really enjoyed lightroom. However, the red eye removal tool which worked when I started using lightroom is no longer working. I am having to pull all red eye corrections into "Elements" and that is annoying. When I select the red eye tool and click on the red eye all I get is a beep. I have tried clicking and dragging to select the exact size and that does not work either, just a beep. Does anyone have an answer to my problem?

> It only works on red eye, not bright eye, steel eye, green eye, or any other color.
How about Evil Eye? 8-}
Actually I've had the same problem with Red Eye Removal not working properly. Problem is intermittent and the eye was for sure red.

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Red Eye Removal not working properly

I'm having a problem with the red eye tool. I've done a search of this problem which returned no results.
I have three similar photographs, i.e, taken a few seconds a part at a wedding ceremony. I've corrected the red eye problem on the first file. However, the red eye "dots" REMAIN when I switch to the next files. If I select the red eye tool, I even get the location ovals overlaying the new picture.
Bug?
Eric

> It only works on red eye, not bright eye, steel eye, green eye, or any other color.
How about Evil Eye? 8-}
Actually I've had the same problem with Red Eye Removal not working properly. Problem is intermittent and the eye was for sure red.

Red eye tool not working

Since I reinstalled Aperture 3 on my new iMac, I cannot get the red eye tool to work. I get the circles around the eyes, but nothing happens... I looked for settings or something, but found nothing to solve my problem...

Yes, I am using the right tool. I have been using this tool in Aperture for a long time. In fact, it works fine on my older iMac. I imported the same photo in both iMacs. It corrects fine on my old iMac (2008), but it does nothing on my new 2013 iMac.
Both are running the same version of Aperture (3.5) and both systems are also running on Mavericks.
I noticed a difference in the build of the digital camera RAW, but I would be surprised that that would influence a feature like the red eye tool...
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To get closer just move the slider at the bottom to the right. Then you'll need to hold down the space bar to drag the picture till the area you want is in view.
Regarding the green dot, that's a new one. Try deleting the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that's in your User/Library/Preferences folder. Also emptying the User/Library/Caches/iPhoto folder wouldn't hurt either.
Do you Twango?
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I've written 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. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

"Red-eye" removal for dogs

The red-eye removal tool works great in people, but not in dogs or other animals, mostly because their eyes don't reflect red.
What is the best way to do this? Is there another program that will do this automatically?

Basically humans have one reflective layer and animals have two. Here is an explanation I found with a Google search:
"The consistently red color of the human reflex derives from the red blood pigment hemoglobin. Light from the flash picks up the red from blood vessels encountered during its bounce off the retina, just as reflected sunlight picks up the color of a red sweater.
Why, then, do animal reflexes come in so many other colors and seldom in red? The answer lies in the tapetum lucidum, a highly reflective, variably pigmented membrane backing the retina in animals with good night vision (including dogs, cats and most domestic animals) but entirely absent in humans. The tapetum lies directly behind the retinal photoreceptors. (Nova's The Nocturnal Eye nicely illustrates the anatomy).
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There seems to be a bug in 1.3.1 when using the Red Eye Removal tool on JPGs and auto commit metadata to file option is selected:
Can anyone confirm?
This is what I've written to Adobe in a bug report:
******BUG******
Concise problem statement:
When using "Red Eye Removal Tool" on jpgs and in File->Catalog Settings->Metadata the option "Automatically write changes into XMP" is selected this will end up in a loop reading and writing metadata. The picture is always in status: "checking metadata". "Metadata Date" of file is changing from time to time because Lightroom is always saving metadata to file (modified date of the jpg file itself also changes, so something is written to file).
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1. in File->Catalog Settings->Metadata check option "Automatically write changes into XMP"
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The red eye tool works by selecting the whole eye not just the pupil. If it still does not work try lightening or darkening the image to gaiain some more colour. If that does not work you can clone form one of the eyes that has worked.
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Red Eye removal tool bug

Hi everybody,
I have a big problem using the red eye removal tool:
When trying to select the area around the eye to correct, LR randomly creates a selection rectangle of a different size and at a different location.
Does anyone have the same problem?
Example:
+ I activate the red eye removal tool
+ I drag the cursor to create a selection around the red eye to correct, taking care to have the center of the rectangle more or less in the red area of the eye
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+ the selection rectangle disappears for a split second and appears again at a different location, for example around the eye brow or somewhere under the eye in a 20-30 times smaller size than what I selected.
Is this a failed attempt of artificial intelligence to properly recognize the area to correct or simply a bug?
BTW. the file in question is a JPG, with 2 people, red eye correction worked fine on 3 of the eyes (selection rectangle stayed where I created it) and fails on every attempt on the fourth (LR restarted and so on).

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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?
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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.
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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.
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Auto Red Eyes removal batch processing

Hi,
I know we have got the red eyes removal took into photoshop. Such tool needs a user manual action to work. We must clic on the eyes to make it work.
So its not possible to batch process pictures with red eyes.
I wonder as cameras have now built in red eyes removal and its possible to find a one button push red eyes removal at local photo stations.
Is there a plug in out there that can auto remove red eyes, so we could batch process red eyes photo ?
Is there any trick or pro grade plugin that could make that?

Photoshop Elements 9 has this capability. If I had to auto-red-eye more than a dozen images, that's the route I would take.
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hazard1yard wrote:
Hi, probably a stupid question but how do I change the colour of the eye using the red eye tool?
Thanks
You don't!
Make a selection round the iris; create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, and play with the hue slider.
That's a quick and dirty method, there are plenty of other ways.

Could Lightroom's Red Eye Removal BE more useless?

Version 1.3 and we STILL cant have a red eye removal tool that works half as good as iPhoto's.
My goodness!

When it works, it works really well.
Issues:
It doesn't always detect the red eye.
It doesn't do well on "steel eye" or "green eye" on animals.
Sometimes it won't go dark enough, even on max.
There are workarounds for all three issues, and I've used every one of them.

Red eye removal help please

I have a photo of 5 people all with red eye.
I went into quick edit for auto red eye removal and some peoples eyes became normal and others did not. Some would have one eye normal and the other red
I went in to the expanded version of editing and tried:
I expanded the view of a person's eyes, clicked on red eye icon then the person's eye - both were selected and one improved but the other did not.
I expanded the view of the eyes, clicked on the icon then on one pupil and it did not change.
What part am I missing.
I can't have people with one red eye and one normal.
I have played with the darkness of the eye and oddly enough, sometimes the darkness was on other parts of the body, like an ear.
I have played with the size of the pupil and that did not bring me positive results.
I have to be missing something and appreciate any suggestions.

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