Red Eye Brush

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Photoshop Elements

Red Eye Brush Tutorial

J Woods

Adobe Certied Expert

Photoshop 6.0

Figure 1

Figure 1 Color Cast is bad, dark,yellow and there is a lot of red eye in this

image


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Figure 2

Figure 2 Closeup of the red eye in the image.

Figure 3

Figure 3 Red Eye Brush selected in ElementsToolBar.


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Figure 4

Figure 4 Banner Bar shown with the Red Eye Brush selected in Elements ToolBar.

The Current color patch shows the color the cursor is over at the moment, the

Replacement color patch shows the color that is going to be used to replace the

red eye color.

Brush Size Controls

Figure 5

Figure 5 Color Picker showing current Replacement color. When the Color Picker

control panel is open, if you move the cursor into the image, the cursor turns into a

eyedropper allowing you to sample any color from the image, and make that color

the Replacement color.


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Figure 6

Figure 6 Closeup of image showing

eyedropper selection of brown eye

color as the Replacement color.

Figure 7

Figure 7 Color Picker control panel showing color values of Replacement color.


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Figure 8

Figure 8 Red Eye Brush over image, brown eye color replacing the red eye

color.

Figure 9

Figure 9 Left eye red eye color replaced, Red Eye Brush over right eye.


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Figure 10

Figure 10 Both eyes with red eye color replaced.

Figure 11

Figure 11 Select the default colors by clicking on the default color icon next to the

color picker swatches, or clicking on Command D on the Mac keyboard or Control

D on the PC keyboard, make the Foreground color White by click Command X

(Mac) Control X (PC) on the keyboard. Select the Paintbrush tool (B), select a

very small brush size and click over the catch light areas in the eyes

Catch light areas in the eyes

Figure 12

Figure 12 Catch light areas in eyes with White color applied to them.


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Figure 13

Figure 13 Catch light areas in left eye with White color applied to the eye.

Figure 14

Figure 14 Catch light areas in both eyes with White color applied to the eyes.

Now that the eyes have been taken care of, the color cast in the image needs

to be corrected.


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Figure 15

Figure 15 By making an assumption that the soap bubble area indicated maybe a

White point in the image, we can use the Levels to correct the image color cast.

Figure 16

Figure 16 Select Enhance>Brightness/Contrast>Levels on Elements Banner Bar


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Figure 17

Figure 17 Levels Control Panel with image Histogram shown open.

Figure 18

Figure 18 Levels Control Panel with White Point selection eyedropper shown

selected.


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Figure 19

Figure 19 Results of White point selection eyedropper selected on soap bubbles

area indicated. the image looks a bit washed out and lacking some density and

detail in the hair.

Figure 20

Figure 20 Duplicate the Layer as shown.


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Figure 21

Figure 21 Change the Blend Mode on

the New layer to Multiply in the Layers

palette as shown.

Figure 22

Figure 22 New layer with Multiply in the blend mode control Opacity control set

to 100%, in the Layers palette.


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Figure 23

Figure 23 New layer with Multiply in the blend mode control Opacity control set

to 50%, in the Layers palette.

Figure 24

Figure 24 Results of New layer with Multiply in the blend mode control,

Opacity control set to 50%, in the Layers palette. Detail in the hair has been

brought back in and the image looks more staurated.


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Figure 25

Figure 25 Flatten the image using the arrow in the upper right of the Layerspalette.

Figure 26

Figure 26 Popout dialog box to atten the image.


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Figure 28

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