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Remove red eye

The Red Eye tool removes red eye in flash photos of people or animals, and white or green reflections in flash photos of animals.

  1. Select the Red Eye tool . (The Red Eye tool is in the same group as the Spot Healing Brush tool . Click the triangle in the lower right portion of a tool to display additional tools.)
  2. Click in the red eye. If you are not satisfied with the result, undo the correction, set one or more of the following options in the options bar, and click the red eye again:
    Pupil Size
    Increases or decreases the area affected by the Red Eye tool.

    Darken Amount
    Sets the darkness of the correction.

Red eye is caused by a reflection of the camera flash in the subject’s retina. You’ll see it more often when taking pictures in a darkened room because the subject’s iris is wide open. To avoid red eye, use the camera’s red eye reduction feature. Or, better yet, use a separate flash unit that you can mount on the camera farther away from the camera’s lens.

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No screen name said on May 14, 2007 at 6:38 PM :
In the instructions to remove red eye, the first step is to select the red eye tool. Regrettably, there is no such tool. If there is such a tool, perhaps the "Help" menu can be revised such that the first step is to direct user to the location of the tool.

Thanks.
No screen name said on May 24, 2007 at 3:45 PM :
Thanks for the suggestion. The Red Eye tool is in the same group as the Spot Healing Brush Tool. Click the triangle in the lower right portion of the tool to display the additional tools.
No screen name said on May 29, 2007 at 7:46 PM :
When I use the red eye tool, the program does not correct the red eye, but rather places a dark spot somewhere on the subjects neck or shoulder.
What is wrong?
No screen name said on May 30, 2007 at 11:02 AM :
This can happen if Photoshop fails to auto-detect the red-eye. There may be a bad profile shot, or the colors may be blotchy on skin tones, or there may be red with white suroundings elsewhere in the photo. Try changing the magnification, drag across the red eye using the Red Eye tool.
No screen name said on Jun 18, 2007 at 12:22 PM :
I have looked for some time now in frustration for the " red eye tool "
I have clicked on the incrediably small triangle in the Spot Healing Brush
Tool group & there is no " red eye tool " among the 21 options listed. The "
Help " section merely asks you to select the tool with no indication as to
where the tool resides. If it indeed is grouped with the Healing Brush
I have yet to find it in PS 3.
No screen name said on Jun 18, 2007 at 4:57 PM :
In some cases, using the Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse has caused erratic behavior. In one case, switching to a different mouse allowed the user to view the additional tools, including the Red Eye tool. A tech note is currently being written. I'll post the link when it's available.
nandav said on Jun 20, 2007 at 6:30 AM :
I found the red eye tool by using a right-mouse click in the small triangle in the healing brush tool.
No screen name said on Jul 13, 2007 at 8:30 AM :
I have a mac with the latest operating system using Adobe Photoshop CS3. I have tried to locate the Red Eye Tool with no success. The right hand bottom Tool Expander triangle shows nothing when touched upon.
Please advise.

Thanks.
No screen name said on Jul 30, 2007 at 6:25 PM :
How do I find the spot healing brush and the small triangle on which I am supposed to right-click to find my holy grail, the red eye tool. For crying out loud, all I want is to take the red out!
Anita Dennis said on Jul 31, 2007 at 9:58 AM :
The Spot Healing Brush is the 7th tool from the top of the default toolbox. (It has a band-aid icon.) Click and hold it to access the Red Eye tool. For a refresher on all the tools, go to the "About tools" page (http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/10.0/help.html?content=WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-77d5.html) and click "View full size graphic."
No screen name said on Aug 26, 2007 at 6:58 PM :
I was amazed that so many people had the same problem that I did in trying to find the red eye tool! The key was to click the right mouse button on the very small triangle next to the Spot Healing Brush Tool. It seems like Adobe could have made this important tool easier to access.
No screen name said on Feb 7, 2008 at 10:55 AM :
I tried to use the red eye removal tool in camera raw as will as photoshop,
and once you select the tool either do not aloud you to select the eye or will
only aloud you to select just one eye, and once you switch to the the other
eye will erase the correction on the other one.
No screen name said on Mar 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM :
The key was to CLICK THE RIGHT mouse button on the very small triangle next to the Spot Healing Brush Tool.
paintfan9012 said on May 11, 2008 at 4:22 PM :
when i use the red eye tool, it just makes my eyes look like a shade of red with slightly more brown. my eyes are blue. is there a way to make them appear their actual color?
No screen name said on Jul 4, 2008 at 10:10 AM :
For other posters: Hold down left click button on healing tool icon for a second, and all the options under it will show. Works with other icons too.

For Adobe: Putting "red eye" into help search (CS3 extended) yields no results (!). I am finding the help menu pretty mediocre overall. Just a heads-up.
lm reid said on Aug 3, 2008 at 8:12 AM :
how do you get green eye out of dogs eyes, which looks right
No screen name said on Sep 1, 2008 at 10:34 AM :
I made a red eye correction to a Canon G9 .jpg image and it looked great
until I opened the saved file again. The individuals left eye no longer had a
catch light. If I select the zoom tool and enlarge the area around that eye the
image looks fine and when I return the image to normal size the catch light is
there and the photo looks good. What's up? Is this problem the way I
removed the red eye or Canon's or Photoshop? I am using Photoshop
10.0.1 on a Mac tower.
matazap said on Oct 17, 2008 at 6:01 AM :
"Could not use the red eye removal tool because the target channels do not cover the composite." That's the message I got when trying to use red eye removal on my pet pic. What does it mean, what am I doing wrong and what should I do? Thank you.

 

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