Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
If you wind up with red eye in your photos (point-and-shoots are notorious
red-eye generators thanks to the flash being mounted so close to the lens),
Lightroom can easily get rid of it. This is really handy because it saves you
from having to jump over to Photoshop just to remove red eye from
a photo of your neighbor's six-year-old crawling through a giant
hamster tube at Chuck E. Cheese. Here's how it works:
Step One:
Go to the Develop module and click on
the Red Eye Correction tool, found in the
toolbox right under the Histogram panel
(its icon looks like an eye, and it's circled
here in red). Click the tool in the center of
one of the red eyes and drag down and to
the side to make a selection around the eye
(I used the term “selection,” but it's not
really a selection in the Photoshop sense—
it's more a box with crosshairs in it). When
you release the mouse button, it removes
the red eye. If it doesn't fully remove all the
red, you can expand how far out it removes
it by going to the Red Eye Correction tool's
options (they appear in the panel once
you've released the mouse button), and
dragging the Pupil Size slider to the right
(as shown here).
Step Two:
Now do the same thing to the other eye
(the first eye you did stays selected, but
it's “less selected” than your new eye selec-
tion—if that makes any sense). As soon
as you click-and-drag out the selection
and release your mouse button, this eye
is fixed too. If the repair makes it look too
gray, you can make the eye look darker by
dragging the Darken slider to the right (as
shown here). The nice thing is that these
sliders (Pupil Size and Darken) are live,
so as you drag, you see the results right
there onscreen—you don't have to drag a
slider and then reapply the tool to see how
it looks. If you make a mistake and want to
start over, just click the Reset button at the
bottom right of the tool's options panel.
