On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:47:14 -0800,
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A client sent me a pic of her dog that she wants to be on her christmas card. Problem is the dog's eyes are GREEN. I have tried everything but can't get anything I do to look good. Please help!

Thanks much in advance!

I borrowed one of the pictures on one of the websites that dragonfly mentioned, and after doing a quick green eye correction, posted it here.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=13r8RgqOtQ2SRaWBig y9SZisJ6ZQE1

As the others have suggested, there are numerous ways to remove that green eye, and no one method is the best method.
The way I corrected that picture was fairly simple.....Open the image, then create a new layer and call it Green. Using the Elliptical Marquee tool, make a circular outline around the green part of the eye....make sure to keep the outline just outside of the green eye color. Now, hold down the shift key and do the same for the other eye. (Holding down the shift key allows you to circle both eyes at the same time.)
Now, copy the two eyes into the layer you created (the Green layer). Now in order to work on just the eyes in the layer that you just pasted them into, it helps if you turn off the background layer (click on the little eye in the layers palette) so you can see what you're doing.
Now, with the Green layer highlighted, use the magic wand tool (set it to 2) to select the the background of the layer. You could select each eye, but that would take longer, so just select the background.
Once it's selected, go up to Select, and click on Inverse. This will select just the eyes. Now, set your foreground color to black, then go to Edit...then Fill and fill the eyes with the foreground color, black.
Turn on the background so you can see the dog with the black eyes.
Once you do this, the eyes look almost normal, but there is still something missing. With the Green layer still highlighted, use the Eraser tool to erase a few pixels in the center of the eye. Set the brush to a small size, maybe 3 or 4. This will allow the green to show through, giving the look of a slight reflection from the flash. That's it. Sorry if my explanation goes into too much detail. You may know how to do most of the operations, and didn't need me to describe at such a basic level. I do this because I never know how well the other person knows PhotoShop, so I try to make it very basic.

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John_Calloway

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