Remove Red Eye

DAVE MOSER

Okay, let’s say you forgot to try one of the strategies on the previous page and you wind up with an important photo that has red eye. Luckily, it’s easier than ever to get rid of red eye. Whether you’re using Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (the consumer version of Photoshop), you can use the Red Eye tool to quickly get rid of red eye. Here’s how they work: open the photo in Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements), then get the Red Eye tool (it’s in the Toolbox on the left side), and simply click directly on the red area in one of the eyes. That’s it—it does the rest. Then do the other eye. Not too shabby, eh? If clicking directly on the red part of the eye is too hard (the person is standing kind of far away so their eyes are kind of a small target), then just take the tool and click-and-drag a rectangle around the whole eye area, and when you release the mouse button, it will do its thing. Either way you do it, that red eye is going to be gone in seconds. Just another reason why I love Photoshop.