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Old 07-08-2009, 08:46 PM
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Re: Taking pictures of hedgehogs

Hi Seagull, it's always a bit of a problem. The trick I use for dealing with hedgehog red-eye in photoshop is quite simple and works a treat. Also good for 'blue eye' on foxes, an dmost other eye tweaks.

I select the area of the eye with one of the selection/mask tools, making a rough circle just larger than the eye (you may need to zoom the image). I then select the enhance>adjust colour> replace colour option from the menu. I then click on the red on the eye and reduce the 'lightness' to nearly zero. This turns it black. You can play around with the fuzziness to make more or less of the colour change. Works really well, and leaves the white spot of the flash as it was. It just changes the red.
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