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Title: Red Eye
Post by Kate on Jul 13^th, 2004 at 1:46pm

Does anyone know of any good freeware/shareware for reducing red eye in photos? I wanted to post a picture from my party last weekend but I look like there are flames shooting from my eyes in it.

I did a quick google and tried out RedEye 1.5, but it gave me that flat-eyed, possessed look. ::)

/Kate

Title: Re: Red Eye
Post by bikerbraid on Jul 13^th, 2004 at 3:43pm

No suggestions here (most pictures of me are taken from the back or with dark biking glasses - no red eye!!)

It could be an interesting comparison to see your possessed and flame shooting shots side by side! ;D

Title: Re: Red Eye
Post by mai_hair on Aug 19^th, 2004 at 1:44am

PHOTOSHOP PHOTOSHOP PHOTOSHOP!!! Lol. Its a bit advanced for just removing red eye, but it's what i use for all my touching up and of coarse major, drastic changes too! It's a bit pricey, and you'd have to take a class, or do tutorials, but it by far produces the best results. AND you can make it look like your not possesed, and even add a little twinkle! Once again, its Adobe Photoshop.

Title: Re: Red Eye
Post by leia on Aug 19^th, 2004 at 8:58am

I have Photoshop... for me it was inexpensive and I didn't have to go to a class or read a manual. I just played around with it and learned a lot. Guess it depends where you live :)

Title: Re: Red Eye
Post by Kate on Aug 19^th, 2004 at 7:26pm

Yep, I've used Photoshop a lot in the past, but as I'm currently out of a job I haven't had access to the software in a while. I just installed it the other day though, so I'm finally able to de-redeye my photos. :-)

The freeware tools out there are pretty useless. Now I just need to get some server space so I can post some pics!

/Kate

Title: Re: Red Eye
Post by andiS on Oct 26^th, 2005 at 1:15pm

GIMP (www.gimp.org) has most of the power of photoshop and is free. I use it all the time myself and we use it at the school for computer graphics work. Working carefully, and at a high magnification, you can paint in black (or very dark grey is often better) over the red bits.

The best way to reduce red-eye in pictures is to not get it in the first place of course; as you know that's the light reflecting off the blood vessels in your retina you're seeing and that's caused by the light going straight into the eye from the flash gun. Your pupils are dilated, because it's dark enough to need flash, so the redness is big. That means avoiding the dreaded on-camera flash gun. Either work with natural light, or put enough other light sources in the room that you don't need flash. If you've got a film SLR with a hot shoe for the flash, buy a flash bracket so the flash sits off to one side of the camera (bounce it off a sheet of card if you can)

Title: Re: Red Eye
Post by bikerbraid on Oct 26^th, 2005 at 1:17pm

Thanks for sharing that great info on avoiding red eye, AndiS! and Welcome!!

Title: Re: Red Eye
Post by andiS on Oct 26^th, 2005 at 1:24pm

You're welcome, and tx for the welcome..