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OK, not a particularly good picture but a record of my growing puppy. Used onboard flash and as you can seee the eyes are dire!
I have PSE 9 & latest LR.
I would appreciate suggestions as to the best way of correcting this. (I know I should have fetched the flashgun but....)
| Camera: | Canon EOS 650D |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | Devil dog |
| Username: | 
Hazelmouse |
| Uploaded: | 18 Jan 2013 - 11:45 AM |
| Tags: | Italian Spinone., Pets / captive animals, Puppy |
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You give us no info to go on. You can clone back in a black pupil and some software will do it for you semi. Automatically. This is a family record for you and will serve the purpose admirably. Ideally, you needed a slightly brighter image with the dogs head sharp.
A good tip for more dramatic results is to'fill the frame'.
Paul
Thanks for the mods. Do I take it that the solution is simply to clone the eye back in as the correct colour?
I can do that but thought there might be something I was missing.
Hi Helen......I just made a tight selection of the 'blue' eyes, & put it on a separate layer...then completely desaturated the colour out of it.
Then using the paintbrush paint black (with a low opacity...10%) back into the eyes till it looked 'normal', then painted in white to add the hi-lites.......
All this is done with the image at 100% on screen, with the brush only 3 or 4 pixels wide.......flatten the image to apply.
Can't think of any other way, though someone else may have a different solution ????.
Hi Helen.
Heres how to fix the eyes properly.
Use a black brush, zoom in, and paint in the blue, and only the blue, with black. This is what the red-eye reduction tool in PS does; except it maintains a catchlight in the eyes, and this has removed them.
So flatten the image. Zoom in, and with a 2 pixel white brush simply touch in a catchlight in the appropriate place in each eye. A simple 5 minute job.
Ive uploaded a mod with this exact procedure done, and Ive also tweaked the shot overall.
Hope this helps,
Regards
Willie
Thanks loads everyone, puppy occupies much time at the moment but at least I know what to practise for the future!
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