Photoshop Elements. Red Eye Brush Tutorial

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by  Woods J.

Photoshop Elements
Red Eye Brush Tutorial
J Woods
Adobe Certified Expert
Photoshop 6.0
Figure 1
Figure 1 Color Cast is bad, dark,yellow and there is a lot of red eye in this
image
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Figure 2
Figure 2 Closeup of the red eye in the image.
Figure 3
Figure 3 Red Eye Brush selected in Elements
ToolBar.
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Figure 4
Brush Size Controls
Figure 4 Banner Bar shown with the Red Eye Brush selected in Elements ToolBar.
The Current color patch shows the color the cursor is over at the moment, the
Replacement color patch shows the color that is going to be used to replace the
red eye color.
Figure 5
Figure 5 Color Picker showing current Replacement color. When the Color Picker
control panel is open, if you move the cursor into the image, the cursor turns into a
eyedropper allowing you to sample any color from the image, and make that color
the Replacement color.
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Figure 6
Figure 6 Closeup of image showing
eyedropper selection of brown eye
color as the Replacement color.
Figure 7
Figure 7 Color Picker control panel showing color values of Replacement color.
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Figure 8
Figure 8 Red Eye Brush over image, brown eye color replacing the red eye
color.
Figure 9
Figure 9 Left eye red eye color replaced, Red Eye Brush over right eye.
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Figure 10
Figure 10 Both eyes with red eye color replaced.
Catch light areas in the eyes
Figure 11
Figure 11 Select the default colors by clicking on the default color icon next to the
color picker swatches, or clicking on Command D on the Mac keyboard or Control
D on the PC keyboard, make the Foreground color White by click Command X
(Mac) Control X (PC) on the keyboard. Select the Paintbrush tool (B), select a
very small brush size and click over the catch light areas in the eyes
Figure 12
Figure 12 Catch light areas in eyes with White color applied to them.
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Figure 13
Figure 13 Catch light areas in left eye with White color applied to the eye.
Figure 14
Figure 14 Catch light areas in both eyes with White color applied to the eyes.
Now that the eyes have been taken care of, the color cast in the image needs
to be corrected.
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Figure 15
Figure 15 By making an assumption that the soap bubble area indicated may be a

White point in the image we can use the Levels to correct the image color cast.
,
Figure 16
Figure 16 Select Enhance>Brightness/Contrast>Levels on Elements Banner Bar
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Figure 17
Figure 17 Levels Control Panel with image Histogram shown open.
Figure 18
Figure 18 Levels Control Panel with White Point selection eyedropper shown
selected.
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Figure 19
Figure 19 Results of White point selection eyedropper selected on soap bubbles
area indicated. the image looks a bit washed out and lacking some density and
detail in the hair.
Figure 20
Figure 20 Duplicate the Layer as shown.
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