From the course: Photoshop: Tips and Quick Fixes

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How do I fix red eye?

How do I fix red eye?

- Red eye is a problem you'll see far less often with cameras these days because most cameras will stroke the flash before it takes the picture. However, from time to time, particularly if you are using an older camera, you will get red eye, which is caused by the flash reflecting off of the back of the eye and bouncing back. Let me show you how to fix it. If you see an image with red eye, Photoshop has a simple tool for this. Just go over to the healing brush tool, and you'll find the red eye tool. Now, what you can do is easily zooom in on the problem area, and just click on the iris. What it will do is analyze it, and attempt to fix. Now, you'll notice in this case if I choose undo that the red eye bled just slightly into the eyelash there. Now, it doesn't seem to bother me, its not very pronounced, but one way around this is to actually take advantage of masking. So, let's just duplicate this layer, and we'll click on…

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