Red eye tool not available

I'm using iPhoto 4.0.3 on my G5. When I open iPhoto the enhance tool and retouch tool are available, but the red eye tool is grey and is not able to be activated by clicking on it. How can I make the red eye tool work?

Have you tried making a selection of the area that needs the red-eye correction? iPhoto is good, but it really has no way to tell where (or even, whether) eyes are depicted in an image, Slap a marquis around the carnation in a photo depicting nothing but a flower arrangement, and it will gladly remove the red.

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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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I followed the instructions in iPhoto Help, Double Click the Library Photo, Edit Button, Zoom, etc. But the " RED EYE Button " is grayed out and does not allow it to open/work, just the Enhance and the Touch Up buttons are black and allow me to use them. The photo I want to reduce the red eye is clearly RED, if that makes any difference.

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You have to select the eye before the button is accessible. You select the eye and then click on the button.
OT

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Hello all,
I'm writing this on behalf of my dad. He's still using Photoshop CS3 and apparently the red-eye tool has gone missing. It's not under the patch tool on the tools panel (I'm on good old CS5).
We've also tried the Shift+J shortcut mentioned on several similar posts but to no avail. Is there any other way to locate it?
As far as I understand, dad didn't make any system updates or anything. It has just gone missing. He showed me the menu over Skype screen share, the red eye tool is definitely not under the patch tool - in fact, there's just one tool choice if you click on that icon, instead of usual four.
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Lia

Hello Lia,
it's a little bit confusing to find it, I've to agree. Here what I found in my library:
Toolbox >>> select Zoom tool >>> (Zoom Tool button) >>> The arrow becomes a magnifying glass with a plus sign in the center. >>> Position the mouse over the area containing the red eye, and click until you can easily see the red eye(s). Right click the "spot healing brush" (Brush Tool button) >>> select the Red Eye Tool (Red Eye Tool Button) >>> The mouse changes into a crosshair.
Using "Pupil Size percent value" and the "Darken Amount percent value" are leading to more exact results.
Hans-Günter

Red Eye Tool

I recently tried to remove some red-eyes in some pictures I took. When I clicked on the photo, it made a black circle around the eye, like a black-eye on the photo. Any ideas what might be causing this? I have used the red-eye tool in the past and not had this problem.

Craig,
You can change the curser into a circle, which you can resize to match the pupil exactly. It helps to zoom in all the way on the photo after you enter edit mode.
Type Caps lockControl9
Undo caps lock
Click on 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.
To get a lighter correction, Shift-click in the eye.
NOTE: Using the "{" "}" 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.
Thanks to Old Toad for passing along this trick. I find that it often works better than the red-eye correction in Photoshop Elements.

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Pookie_butt

Sometimes temporarily lightening (Exposure) will help to get Red Eye working. Then you can reset the exposure.
Don
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Red Eye Adjustment not saved (completely)

After upgrading my library, I tried editing some photos.
On one, I made red-eye adjustment that looked just fine--that is until I saved the edit. Once saved, the red-eye correction was different (and not as complete) as I had seen in the edit window. Some of the corrections were good, but one I could not get to save properly!
Anyone else having this problem? Or better yet, know of a workaround or fix?
++ Peter
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I'm having the exact same thing. I make red-eye adjustments, it says it's saving, but the red-eye tool changes are NOT saved. Here are some things I've tried doing before re-trying the red-eye tool, none of which have fixed the problem:
1. Making other edits in iPhoto and saving them first.
2. Making other edits in photoshop and saving them first.
3. Duplicating the image in iPhoto.
4. Reverting to original and starting over.
5. Exporting the photo and re-importing it.
6. Exporting the photo, editing it in Photoshop, and reimporting it.
7. Exporting the original TIFF, converting to PNG, and re-importing it.
8. Exporting the original TIFF, converting to JPEG, and re-importing it.
9. Exporting the TIFF, scaling it down slightly, and re-importing it.
10. Cropping it.
11. Exporting as TIFF, downsizing to 2,000 pixels wide, and re-importing it.
Here's what did work:
- Exporting it as a jpeg scaled down from 3004 pixels wide to 2000 pixels wide and re-importing it.
- Exporting as a TIFF, scaling down to 1000 pixels wide, and reimporting it.
NOTE that scaling it down to a 2000 pixel wide JPEG allows the edit to work, but scaling down to a 2000 pixel TIFF does NOT! Yet scaling it down further as a TIFF does work! I also tried scaling it down just slightly as a JPEG- from 3004 to 3000 pixels, which did NOT work.
I have no idea what's going on, but it's sure annoying. The red eye tool makes perfect adjustments, and then anytime I leave that image and go back to it, the changes are not there, despite iPhoto saying "saving changes."
I'd be glad to send a test image this happens to to Apple, if anyone wants it, because this is definitely a bug, and an annoying one. It doesn't happen with most images, so if Apple doesn't happen to have an image around that this happens to, they won't be able to re-create the bug for testing.
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I used to have the red eye tool (picture of an eye with a plus sign to the left of it) in my toolbox, but after reinstalling photoshop on my new computer it is gone.
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any ideas how to get it back???

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Red Eye Tool Failure

Light Room 1.3.1
OSX 10.4.11
1.25 GB ram
nVidia GeForce 4MX
14.4 GB free disk space
Have been using Light Room since Christmas. Red eye tool was working fine. Now when I select it there is no pupil size or darkness slider showing. Also I can only do one eye for the entire library. After that the cursor works only to the point where I can drag over the second eye but when I let go of the mouse button the cursor reverts back to the cross with a red dot in the center and the eye is not fixed.
Am I missing something or is the tool damaged. I have re-installed, re-booted, repaired the disk, and permissions. Cleared p ram. Still not working.
My camera is a Canon Rebel XTi. I keep all my photos in a file system on my Hard disk in a "photos" folder. I import into the library and keep the files where they are. The tool worked perfectly until I was working on some new photos yesterday. Thanks for any help with this.
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Red eye tool problem CS 6

The red eye tool is not working properly. I started many years ago with Elements, then CS2, CS4, and now CS 6. I have never had a problem prior to CS 6. No matter what settings I use, the tool is darkening other parts of the image than the red eye. Either that or leaving a huge black eye.

it is the same with different pictures. If I would send the original picture, it doesn't matter, because the artifact would not be there after exporting.
To clarify the problem (excuse my poor english):
If I use the red-eye-correction in aperture there will be a black square around the pupil, but only in aperture. If I export the picture, the square will disappear - red-eye-correction has worked well. (The picture I send is a screen shot).
If I remove the red-eye-correction, the square disappears.
Even more strange: If I change to fullscreen, the square disappears, back to smaller size it come back.
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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-}
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