Red eyes

[wchurchi]

Dear Forum members,

Quick question,

I shot picture with G2 recently and am new user.

I am automatic shoot user rather than manual.

The blue eyed person in the picture came out with red eyes and the other person had brown eyes and their eyes came out looking just great. They were fairly close up pictures.

Anyone have any ideas why this occurred and how to correct it?

Thanks

Wcc

[redbutt]

Did you have the Red Eye flash on? Blue eyes are very bad for showing "red eye".

[wchurchi]

Had red eye flash on however the person in the photo that showed up red had very blue eyes maybe I will need to use a software program to erase these.....

I guess brown eyes are in when it comes to picture taking.

:)

Thanks for your response to my question......

Wcc

[Georgees]

If you have photoshop, Fred Miranda has a nice red correction action. You just select the red portion of the eye with the oval selection tool and run the action. Red eye gone.

Regards

George Smith
www.ksscin.com

[JohnMN]

wchurchi,

Do you have a copy of ArcSoft's Photoimpression 3.0? If you do, try the following technique for removing red eye from your pictures:

CORRECTING RED EYE USING ARCSOFT PHOTOIMPRESSION.

1. Install the Arcsoft Camera Suite software from the disk.

2. When installation is complete, click on the START button, PROGRAMS,
ARCSOFT CAMERA SUITE, PHOTOIMPRESSION 3.0

3. When the software appears onscreen, you will be in the GET PHOTO
mode, (green button top left corner). In the lower half of the screen,
click on the 'From File' button.

4. Click on the 'Browse' button and you will be able to go to wherever
you have the image stored that you want to work on. Hard disk, CD-Rom,
Zip etc.

5. Find the image, click on it and then click on the 'Open' button.
The image will now appear in PHOTOIMPRESSION in the centre of the black
screen.

6. Click on the 'Edit' button, then click on the 'Retouch' button.
The screen will change and a row of 15 buttons will appear under the
photo window. Red eye removal is the seventh button along from the left.

7. Click on this button to select it and then move up to where the
magnification tool is (near the top right corner) and click a number of
times on the plus sign to 'zoom in' on your image, keep clicking until
you reach 100%. That should be good enough unless your image is really small.

8. Above the magnification tools is a thumbnail window of your selected
image with a blue rectangular box in it. This shows you the area you
are currently seeing in the large picture.

9. Move the mouse pointer into the centre of this blue rectangular box
and click and drag it around to get the area where the red eye problem
is located.

10. When you are happy with this, move into the large image and click
drag from one corner of the red eye problem to the other corner and it
will disappear right before your very eyes.

11. Repeat steps 9 and 10 for all other problem red eye in your image
and possibly increase the magnification to get more accurate results.

12. When you are happy with the results click on the 'Save' button.
Click on Save As, a Save As dialog box appears and allows you to save
the new image in a number of formats. I would choose either the BMP,
TIF or JPEG formats, also be sure to give the file a different name to
the one it had when you loaded it in. This is to make sure you don't
overwrite the original.

The next time you take pictures try and stand 5 or 6 feet away from your subject and tell them not to look directly into the camera lens. Try also shooting them from a slight angle rather than straight on.

JohnMN

[feivel]

If you got red eyes with one and not the other, It probably is not because of eye color. I'm betting the red eye was looking directly into the camera and the nonredeye was looking slightly off from direct