Photoshop: Tutorial – Removing Red Eye in CS2

Jun 8, 2006 by Jennifer    No Comments    Posted under: Photoshop Tutorials

The Red Eye tool in Photoshop CS2 removes red eye in flash photos of people and white or green reflections in flash photos of animals. It’s incredibly quick and easy to use.

1. Open an image of a person with red eye.

2. Select the Red Eye tool from the toolbox.

3. Click in the red eye area on the image. The eye should change to a dark pupil.

If it doesn’t work out as you expected, set one or both of the following options in and click in the red eye area again:

• Pupil Size sets the size of the pupil (dark center of the eye).
• Darken Pupil Sets the darkness of the pupil.

Severe Red Eye
Even when the red eye is severe, Photoshop still does a good job of removing it. Occasionally it will make the person look like they have cataracts but generally it’s a huge improvement.

Even when the red eye problem is reminiscent of The Terminator, as in this photo, it still does a good job. The results can be seen below.

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