Level 2 Basic

Lesson 8

Fixing a Photo -  Red Eye

The “Quick Fix” screen can be used to solve many common problems.

Red eye is a major problem in flash photography.

Introduction

In this lesson we will learn how to zoom in on the eyes in our images. We will outline two easy methods to correct red eye.

From the “Photo Well”, click on the image that you want to work on.

A blue border will highlight the selected image.

From the Main menu, click on:

[ Edit ]

Then click on:

[ Go to Quick Fix… ]

Once you enter the “Quick Fix” screen, set the “Before & After” view to “Portrait”.

Note: This step was illustrated in Lesson #5.

“Rotate” to correct the orientation if necessary.

Note: This step was illustrated in Lesson #5.

Here we do not want to see the entire “Before & After” images.

We want to be able to zoom in on the eyes to judge our results.

Click on:

[ Actual Pixels ]

Select the “Zoom Tool” by clicking on:

[ Magnifying Glass ]

Then we want to magnify, so click on the  “+ Magnifier”:

[ + ]

Beside the “Zoom Panel”, click on:

[ Arrow ]

Then slide the slider to enlarge the images as desired.

Now we wish to move around the image, with our mouse cursor, to position the eyes in our “Before & After” panes.

To accomplish this, click on the:

[ Hand Tool ]

Here we have shown both eyes in position for red eye removal.

We are not really removing the eyes, so it should probably be called red eye conversion.

[ Red Eye Correction Tool ]

With the “Red Eye Removal Tool” selected, click once directly on a red area of the pupil.

The red will be replaced with a neutral color.

We can now fine-tune the size of the pupil as shown.

We can now fine-tune the darkness of the pupil as shown.

With the “Red Eye Removal Tool” selected, drag it over one red eye area so there is a square selection around the entire eye.

The red will be replaced with neutral color as shown.

We can now fine-tune the size and darkness of the pupil the same way we did in Steps #9b and #9c.

You can now judge the results in the “Before & After” panes.

Now we should exit the “Quick Fix” screen and save the changes to our image.

The methods for Exiting & Saving were outlined in Lessons #5 & #6.

Remember, these changes only occur on a copy of the original, not on the original itself. Both the original and the copy will appear in the “Photo Well” as shown here.

Summary

In this lesson we learned how to zoom in on the eyes in our images. We outlined two easy methods of correcting red eye.