Fixing Red Eye With Adobe Photoshop
Author: David Peters

It is a common problem. Your have captured some adorable
photographs of your new baby boy and can't wait to show them
off to your friends and family only to be disappointed, when
you look at them on your computer or pick them up from the
photo lab, by the terrible red eye. Your precious child looks
like a demon or something from a scary movie. This problem is
commonly referred to as "red eye."

Red eye is caused by the light from camera's flash reflecting
off of the retina in the back of the eye. In low light
conditions the iris of the eye is larger providing for a larger
surface to appear red in your photos. Unfortunately, it is in
low light conditions that a flash is needed the most.

Red is becoming more and more of a problem and this is partly
due to the emergence of digital photo technology. Since digital
cameras do not need the same internal mechanics or space for
film they are becoming smaller and smaller compared to their
film counterparts. This means that the flash is much closer to
the lens. In fact, in most new point and shoot digital cameras
the flash is directly above the lens. This is the problem. When
the flash is closer to the lens it causes the flash to enter the
iris directly and reflect straight back to the camera causing
the terrible red eye that has ruined your family pictures.

Most digital cameras have a red eye reduction feature built in
which causes a pre flash immediately before the camera exposes
the image. This causes the iris to become smaller for the
actual picture. Unfortunately, this function rarely completely
eliminates red eye from your photographs. Since most point and
shoot digital cameras do not have a hot shoe allowing the
photographer to add a flash away from the camera the only
option for eliminating red eye is to fix it after the fact.

This is where Adobe Photoshop comes in. Photoshop makes it easy
to correct even the worst cases of red eye in photographs. Are
you concerned that Photoshop is too complicated or difficult to
learn? Don't be. Even someone with no experience at all can
quickly and easily learn to fix red eye like a pro using Adobe
Photoshop.


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