Using The Red Eye Tool

Basic red eye removal

For this tutorial we're going to use the following image:









Step 1 : Open this picture in Photoshop.

Step 2: Duplicate the Background layer by dragging/dropping its thumbnail onto the Create a new layer icon or you can just simply click layer>new>layer via copy.

Step 3: Select the Red Eye tool in the tool bar.

With the tool selected use the following settings in the options bar:

Pupil Size: 50%
Darken Amount: 70%:

Step 4: Make sure that the Background copy layer is the active layer (it will have a blue background in the layers palette):

Step 5 : Now remove the red in each eye by making a rough selection.





Step 6: There you have your photo without a red eye.