Animal eyes

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I am new to digital photography, and have been enjoying it, but whenver the flash goes off my animals eyes ofcourse either go silver, or the iris is fine but the pupil is not, is there any way around this, apart from taking only pictures in the daylight
 
PSP offers a tool to fix animal eyes.

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ifitspecs said:
I am new to digital photography, and have been enjoying it, but whenver
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the flash goes off my animals eyes ofcourse either go silver, or the iris
is fine but the pupil is not, is there any way around this, apart from
taking only pictures in the daylight
 
I am not sure about animal eye. Red eye in people is easily correctable.
Maybe the same is true for animal.
You can download and try free software here to remove red eye:
www.irfanview.com
Under Help, Index, type red eye and follow the directions. Maybe it will
work for correcting animal eye.
ifitspecs said:
I am new to digital photography, and have been enjoying it, but whenver
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the flash goes off my animals eyes ofcourse either go silver, or the iris
is fine but the pupil is not, is there any way around this, apart from
taking only pictures in the daylight
 
ifitspecs said:
I am new to digital photography, and have been enjoying
it, but whenver the flash goes off my animals eyes
ofcourse either go silver, or the iris is fine but the
pupil is not, is there any way around this, apart from
taking only pictures in the daylight
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The best prevention for the problem you describe
is an external flash. A flash that is very close to
the lens causes the light to reflect off the retina
and bounce right back in the picture....with an
external flash...the angle prevents the reflection.

Most of your better image editing programs have
a red-eye removal tool but I have yet to find one
that is always dependable....usually I have to do
some adjusting of the colors.

MS Picture It! and MS Digital Image Pro programs
have a red-eye removal tool that works on animal
eyes but I find that I have to do some touchup around
the edges with Freehand Painting or the Dodge
and Burn Brush.

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John, could you be more specific as to how you adjust with dodge & burn or the other approach

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ifitspecs wrote
I am new to digital photography, and have been enjoyin
it, but whenver the flash goes off my animals eye
ofcourse either go silver, or the iris is fine but th
pupil is not, is there any way around this, apart fro
taking only pictures in the dayligh
Click to expand...
==========================================
The best prevention for the problem you describ
is an external flash. A flash that is very close t
the lens causes the light to reflect off the retin
and bounce right back in the picture....with a
external flash...the angle prevents the reflection

Most of your better image editing programs hav
a red-eye removal tool but I have yet to find on
that is always dependable....usually I have to d
some adjusting of the colors

MS Picture It! and MS Digital Image Pro program
have a red-eye removal tool that works on anima
eyes but I find that I have to do some touchup aroun
the edges with Freehand Painting or the Dodg
and Burn Brush

--

John Inze
Picture It! MV
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http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=pi
 
TomZ said:
John, could you be more specific as to how you adjust
with dodge & burn or the other approach?
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The following steps are specific for Digital Image
Pro 7 but the basic idea works in all version of
Picture It!.

After the main color has been adjusted with the
Freehand Paintbrush...it's possible that the edges
may need cleaning up with the Clone Brush or the
Dodge and Burn tool.

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DIP7.0 Red-eye touchup.

Effects / Paint Brush / Freehand...

Zoom in on the eyes so you can see
exactly what's happening.

#1) Choose Airbrush

#2) Choose Black

#3) Choose the Brush size closest to the
size of the pupil.

Now, click your Customize button...

Choose the round brush with the faded
edge....set the transparency slider on 75.

One or two clicks on each pupil should
make an improvement.

Click the arrow to the left of the Cancel
button to go back to the previous screen.

If the white Reflection/Sparkle in the eye
is covered by the color, you should be
able to replace it with your Clone Brush.

FWIW, this also works on the green color
in animal eyes.

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Here's an example of animal eye repair:

Before:
http://tinyurl.com/7drn

After:
http://tinyurl.com/7drr

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