Red eye in your photos is easier to remove than ever before.
You've gone to the event and are looking forward to e-mailing your family and friends the photographs that you took, but alas, even with a fancy digital camera---red eye! It's not the fault of either you or your camera: When the pupil dilates from a flash, the retina will reflect the flash as a red-tinted light due to its being covered with thousands of tiny blood vessels. But don't panic: With today's photo software, it is ridiculously easy to remove this unsightly side effect of flash lighting. Most photo-organizing software includes an exceptionally easy-to-use red-eye-removal tool.
Instructions
1. Download free photo-organizing software that contains a red-eye-removal tool. There are many choices on the web that won't cost you a dime, including Picassa, Google's very popular photo-organizing program. Picassa features a red-eye-removal tool that takes only seconds per photograph.
2. Utilize graphic software that you already own to remove red eye. Photoshop contains a red-eye-removal tool, which is placed in the "healing brush" category. To find it, simply click on the brush icon and read the fly-out menu. The red-eye tool should be the last one listed. It will automatically sample the area underneath the red eye and replace it with the appropriate color. You can also use a spray tool in any other graphics program (including Paint Shop Pro and Windows Draw) to color the red area to its appropriate black pupil color. Set the brush to a light opacity and slowly replace the red with black.
3. Go to where you usually have your photos printed. It helps to have your photos on a thumb drive or memory card to make it easy to download the photographs into the photo-editing kiosk that is on site. The attendant can show you remove the coloring from the pupil with the machine's easy-to-use red-eye-removal tools. You can also use the store's website to remove red eye online before ordering your prints.
4. Investigate a camera that eliminates red eye automatically. Nikon sells a camera that takes it out entirely, thus helping you take better photographs without having to bother with editing a common problem.
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