How do I correct dog eyes?
Dog eyes occur when you use a flash to take a picture of a dog.
It's similar to red eyes in people, but much worse. For better night
vision, dogs, like many other animals, have far more rods in their
eyes than people do. Their eyes reflect light back out and give them a
hellish glow when photographed with a flash. I'm sure you've seen
animals' eyes glow if you drive on a dark road at night with your
headlights on.
Cure those dog eyes
Normally, it's easy to remove red eye with Photoshop Elements'
red-eye brush, located in the toolbar.
However, in a situation like the one presented here -- where the
highlights are completely blown away -- the red-eye brush won't help.
As always with Photoshop Elements (and Photoshop), there are a couple
of ways to proceed. I'll use Photoshop Elements and show you two ways
to go.
Method one
Here is the simplest way I can imagine to improve the image.
- Magnify and zoom in on the dog eyes.
- Select the paint bucket tool from the toolbar.
- Make sure the foreground color in the color swatch at the bottom
of the toolbar is set to black.
- Position the paint bucket tool over the blown-out highlights of
the eyes and click. Repeat for both eyes.
This fills the white area with black. It's certainly not a perfect
solution, but if you zoom out, it doesn't look too bad.
Method two
This will result in a more realistic-looking image.
- Magnify and zoom in on the dog eyes.
- With the magic wand -- or selection tool of your choice -- make a
selection of the white areas in the eye.
- In the layer palette, make a new layer.
- With the new layer active, fill your two selections with black --
or any other color. (Edit> Fill or use the paint bucket tool).
- In the layer styles palette, located in the palette well, select
"glass buttons" from the pop-up menu.
- Choose the "glass" color. You can change the color later.
Now you will see the eye looks more realistic.
How do you change the color? Now you can actually use the red-eye
brush. To do this:
- Flatten your layers (Layer > Flatten Image).
- Select the red-eye brush from the toolbar. Select a "replacement"
color in the options bar.
- Click on the area where you want to change color and then "paint"
the replacement color over it.
