You'll get a number of useful suggestions for removing red-eye. Actually, you're on the right track already. This is why you're getting frustrating results just now. . . .

You have properly set your options correctly, especially with the blend mode set to Color. This mode preserves the *tonal* variations of your image as you replace the colors. However, by intent, it does NOT effect the *luminosity* of the pixels you are correcting. That's why you get a variety of grays instead of a black. PS is preserving the luminance of the replaced pixels and replacing only the hue and saturation. The only way the Color Replacement tool could result in a black pixel would be if it were replacing an already black pixel (that is, the pixel already had a zero luminosity).

If you're trying to replace red-eye in the pupil, just use the brush tool with the foreground color set to black. That works for the pupil because it's presumed to be a solid black anyway, with no tonal variations, so you don't mind painting with a flat black..

If the red-eye splashes over into the iris, then go back to the Color Replacement tool and do you what you're doing now. However, add one more step by repeating the procedure and setting your blend mode to luminance. The first swipe replaces the hue and saturation of the red pixels with various shades of gray, while the second replaces luminance of those gray pixels with the luminance of your foreground color (black, zero). Effectively, you're painting the carefully selected pixels ("once" option), and *only* the selected pixels, with a solid black.

There are a number of other to get rid of Red Eye but your approach is just fine and will eventually lead you to further understanding of the wondermous Color Replacement tool.

Good question!
Good luck!
.. . . . patrick

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"Don Deacon" wrote in message

Hoping someone can help me out here as I'm using the Photoshop Evaluation version to edit some pics and evaluate Photoshop but for the life of me I can't get a decent red eye cleaned up. I'm using the Color Replacement tool as is suggested in the Help file with the following settings:
Mode: Color
Sampling: Once
Limits: Discontiguous
Tolerance: Varied from 30-50%
Anti-aliased on
For the most part, the parts of the eye I want changed get changed but the color is wrong. I can set the foreground color to pure black but the color that gets put in is grey. If I select other colors (blue for example), they go in fine. This has been driving me nuts as I've been trying to decide which photo program to switch to and so far I like Photoshop but this is the one thing I can't get working. I've been using Microsoft PhotoDraw for a while but have been looking at Photoshop, PaintShop Pro and GIMP.

TIA
Don

Don Deacon

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