Photoshop Tutorial: Fixing Red Eye & Other Eye Adjustments

Adobe Photoshop offers many features that allow users to change, adjust, and enhance photographs. This tutorial is geared towards a beginner within the Photoshop program, who needs to remove red eye or possibly even enrich the color of a subject’s eyes within a photograph. I will go over the exact steps to follow while navigating through the program so that even if you are a novice to the program you can accomplish this very effectual, while simple feat. Included within these directions are other helpful tips and descriptions that should benefit you next time you need to adjust the appearance of one of your photos.

Step 1: open your Photoshop program and go to FILE -> OPEN within the application. Navigate through your hard drive and choose the photograph that you would like to adjust; press open. Before we continue there are a couple of specifications you need to make sure are in tact.

TIP:
Photographs and other types of documents that are created for the purpose of print need to be set to 300dpi to have the highest quality possible. DPI translated is dots per inch, which can also be said as pixels per inch. Many times you will open a document that automatically defaults to 72dpi; this setting is used for images meant to view on the web, or intended for electronic media purposes only. Intuitively, increasing your dpi (pixels per inch) will increase the sharpness of your image.

Step 2: To double check on the dpi of your photograph while you have it open in Photoshop, navigate to IMAGE->IMAGE SIZE. This dialogue box allows you to make the change to 300dpi if applicable.

Step 3: Use the magnifying glasses tool to get as close as possibly to the eyes within the image that you would like to change. This tool can be found within your toolbox area, click on it then hold down your mouse key while drawing a marquee around the area of your photograph being adjusted.