Why does my iPhoto red eye reduction tool only give me blue or black blobs in the eyeballs that look completely unacceptable?
Why does my iPhoto red eye reduction tool only give me blue or black blobs in the eyeballs that look completely unacceptable? Automatic mode makes blue blobs that cover iris and even eyelid! Manual mode gives black dots, not at all hte shape of a oerson's iris as seen in a picture.
And again the answer is simply
THere is no fix - that is the way it works - you can post as many times as you want but it will not change the fact that that is the way that iPhoto works
No fix
No work around
It is what it is - nothing more - nothing less
LN
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Stephanie,
Welcome to the Apple Discuccions.
The first and easiest fix to try is to delete the iPhoto preference file. Close iPhoto. In the Finder, look inside Home/Library/Preferences. Find a file named com.apple.iPhoto.plist and drag it to the Trash. Launch iPhoto. It will create a new pref file, and your preferences will be reset to their defaults. Change them back to your liking. Try to edit a photo and see if it sticks now. If not, look to see if the file is locked.
Photos, Get Info brings up the iPhoto info. You need the Finder's Info. Right-click on the photo's thumbnail from within iPhoto and select "Show File" from the pop-up menu. A Finder window should then open up with the photo already selected. Type Command-I (or click the "More Info..." button below the thumbnail in column view) to bring up the Finder's info about that file.
The top section of the info window is called General. The last thing in that section is a little box by the word Locked. If there's an x in the box, click to remove it. You can also look at the bottom of the Info box, at the section called Ownership & Permissions. Next to "You can" it should say "Read & Write." Open the Details section below that to see who has Ownership of the file. -
Has red eye reduction improved in iPhoto 8.0
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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.
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EdI 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.
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Red eye reduction not always working
Hi.
On some pictures, I'm having trouble with the red eye reduction. On a few pictures, it worked just fine.
I'm having the most trouble with cats. The eyes aren't red, but bright yellow and nothing seems to happen when I try to use the tool.
Anyone else seeing this? Or am I doing something wrong?Hi Lennart - good to see you're asking a question in this forum - you're usually the helper (in iMovie)
I've had the same problem with red eye reduction. It generally only works when eyes are red - yellow eyes don't respond to the correction tool (humans and cats). My workaround is to use the clone stamp in Photoshop Elements. Option click on part of an eye that is the right colour (usually dark) then clone to the eye needing correction. With patience and care, usually the eye can be suitably fixed. Zoom in when performing the correction.
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John -
Iphoto 11
Red eye reduction does not work, auto is not selectable and circling eye and clikcingh does do anything.
I have trashed the plist file, repaired permissions and rebuilt the iphoto database. Nothing fixed the problem.
ANy other ideas I can try ?
all software updates applied , 10.7.3As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there? -
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Thanks,
ArdelleArdelle,
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.
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Can't find it anywhere. Why did they remove it? (iphone 6)
Can't find it anywhere. Why did they remove it? (iphone 6)
In the Photos.app. When you select a photo and click "edit", there is an eye icon at the upper border of the panel. That is the "red eye" correction tool. -
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
+ Release the mouse button
+ 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?
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IiPhoto 11 Red-eye Reduction too black
Hey there!
I recently bought a new iMac and when I transferred my stuff over from my precious Mac, it told me I had to update to iPhoto 11.
I did that, but I prefer my previous version of iPhoto (?08)...
The red-eye reduction never seems to have the auto red-eye correct box checked, and when I do it manually, the pupils end up so black, they look ridiculous; they look fake in the context of the other colours and intensities , and kinda spooky!!
I actually hate it now, and want my old version of iPhoto back
Is there some way I can adjust the intensity of the replacement pupil colour?
Or can you tell me how to get the auto box checked??
Thanks.
Nic.As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there? -
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I have tried numerous to save changes of red eye reduction on a certain photo.
The correction is made but when I click the "Done" button the change is not saved and the original photo with red eye remains. It seems to work fine with all other photos here to fore.
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Thanksddb1
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
This could be a file permissions issue. Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder using the settings found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
(Credit to Old Toad for this one).
Regards
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what system version are you running?
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what fixes have you tried?
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