Help Getting Rid of Dog "Green Eye"

[BradfordBenn]

Howdy All-

So I have been practicing stuff using my Newfoundland as a subject. I am definitely learning stuff. One of the things I have learned is that the red-eye retouching tools does not fix the green eye that occurs with dogs. So I have been going into Photoshop to do the touch up, but I am not always happy with the end result. Sometimes it looks just too drastic.

What I have been doing is exporting out of Lightroom 1.3.1 to Photoshop.
Then in Photoshop CS3 I zoom in on the eyes.
I then pick a portion of the eye color that is not green to use as my "brush" color.
I then use the magic wand or lasso to select the green portion of the eye.
I then brush on the right color, typically varying the amount of opacity to see what looks best.

is there a better way?

Here is a sample of the result...

http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/photos/237970651-M.jpg

[ShepsMom]

Make a new layer
Select the "green" color of the eye using either lasso or marquee (eliptical)
Select darker part of the dog real eye color with selection tool
Use brush to color your selected "green" eye
Make a new layer
Use blending option 'Color'
Diselect.
Flatten image.

Hope this helps!

[susanbudge]

My method is similar to ShepsMom except I use the overlay blend mode to get a darker colour and I am too lazy to select the green area so I just paint over it carefully :D

Susan

[BradfordBenn]

Thanks. Printed them out and will try it out.

[BradfordBenn]

Yup, much better :clap

Thanks

http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/photos/238977164-M.jpg

[JavaLover]

Ok I tried the suggestions and I'm sure it's me. So I did something else, I took a 'good' eye photo and overlayed the 'bad' eye photo and then erased the bad eye. Not the greatest photos but shows the work.

Here's before and after.

Before...


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2080/2165156728_71c59dac1d.jpg?v=0


After...



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2164340369_67c27620a2.jpg?v=0

[BradfordBenn]

I did not erase the bad eye, I overlaid the good color it helps to keep some coloration/gradeation in the eye color.