Kitty red eye removal... well, more of a yellow-eye, really...

[Deja Q]

Does he look convincing?

[ThingsGottaChange]

1. He's quite the handsome boy! nt

[newsguyatl]

2. good job

now if you could only get rid of jesse's:


he's naturally very blue-eyed:

[Deja Q]

3. The darker blue is easy, but here's how to do red-eye:

Lasso-select the inner pupil. (Just the inner circle with the red and include the edges, even if they are almost or completely black. Try to avoid the edges where the blue creeps in.)

Desaturate the colors of the selection. This makes the red turn to a bright gray, brighter by reflection of the flash.

Now go to brightness/contrast, where you must do both at the SAME time or else the effect will not work: set brightness to 0 and increase contrast up until the edges of the pupils blends in with the ambient area AND NO FURTHER. The brightness makes it all black or near-black while the contrast reduces the flash glow while maintaining the spherical look at the original, natural, angle. Too little brightness keeps the eyes flooded with gray tones. Too much renders the eyes to a bizarre abyss "black hole" to it where no light can escape. Talk about having a hole in the head!

I mention "same time" as if you do the brightness in one step, click "Apply" or whatever, then go back to do the contrast adjustment, you'll get a far different and far less preferable result!

No $50 peripherary program is needed. Paint Shop Plus, Photoshop, PhotoImpact, Elements, even that microsoft program has all of the same controls. (and all of which keep brightness and contrast in the same panel so both can be done simultaneously, which is critical for even remotely accurate success.)

Depending on the angle of the flash bulb, some white will remain in the cat's eyes. However, compared to evil glowing red or a gaping black hole, the aforementioned enhancement is preferable.

Saturation and brightness will fix the blue in his eyes; best to do in the blue channel only but only Photoshop allows that. But doing a select of the eyes only will negate that little problem too.

[newsguyatl]

4. you rock

thanks, i'll give it a shot.

because when i tried it earlier, he came out looking like an alien... and i don't mean an alien like the usual cat alien look ;-)

[AirmensMom]

5. How's this?

[billyskank]

6. Needs work

Can tell it's been manipulated.

[AirmensMom]

7. You're right, it does.

:hi:

[newsguyatl]

9. wow, that's great!

thanks!!!

:yourock:

[AirmensMom]

10. If you like it, that's what counts.

You're welcome!

:hi:

[newsguyatl]

11. i do

and i've saved.

thanks again!

[zanne]

8. LOL! He looks so surprised!

I have a cat like that, too. He looks like he's constantly amazed.