Red Eye tool: up is down, down is up, but left is left, right is right.

Anyone else notice this oddity? When using the Red Eye Reduction tool, if I drop it on someone's eye and then use the keyboard arrow keys to move it around, the effect moves up when I push the down key and down when I push the up key (exactly like the Crop tool acts, like you're moving the photo within a matte) but the left/right keys are not reversed. This just seems a little odd to me. Anyone else noticed this? Is there any way to change it?

Odd, must have been a 1-off bug. It's not doing it today on my machine. It was doing it all yesterday and confusing the hell out of me.

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Julia
What it means is that something in your library is at fault...
So, let's move the pics across to the new library...
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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.
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Undo caps lock
Click on the Red-Eye Removal tool.
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