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How would one remove yellow eyes instead of red eyes?

Photography Asked by Fer on January 17, 2021

On a recent trip to Madagascar, we were able to capture some interesting animals during the night, where of course we used flash. The following photo is not made by me…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31109147@N00/2743758622

…but we have many with the same problem as in that photo: yellow eyes. Applying standard red eye post processing on it results in light grey, which looks equally unnatural as yellow.

I was wondering if anybody knows of an easy way to post process this into a natural look, other than of course manual painting, which is a painful exercise. One thing I have tried so far is selective color replacement, but that still is a very diligent process

5 Answers

in Photoshop cs6:

Make a hue sat layer with a mask of the eyes on it. in the yellow channel try lowering the saturation and brightness. Maybe even pushing the yellow into a more neutral color

Correct answer by underarock on January 17, 2021

You can use a program like The GIMP or Photoshop to burn into the Y channel in the eye area.

On GIMP's page, there's an old tutorial that sort of follows the process.
However, instead of using the Channels directly, you should Decompose the image ([Colors]->[Components]->[Decompose]->"CMYK") and work on the resulting yellow-k layer.
When you're done, just Recompose.

Photoshop's menus vary, but it must have something very similar.

Answered by Roflo on January 17, 2021

I would use Photoshop to zoom in on the eyes, select the areas of the eyes that you want to remove the yellow from...after making your selection, go to "hue/saturation", choose yellow, and bring down saturation to get the yellow out.

Answered by Amudgarden on January 17, 2021

For Mac OSX fans, GraphicConverter has a RedEyeRemoval tool. You can configure the tool to be essentially an "AnyUglyColorEyeRemoval" tool by eyedrop-sampling the retina color in your photo and feeding that to the removal algorithm.

Answered by Carl Witthoft on January 17, 2021

http://www.paintshoppro.com/en/pages/red-eye/ Here is a tool in PaintShop Pro that fixes red eyes but it also applies to your problem with yellow eyes as well as animal eyes, this can fix your problem :) Good luck!

Answered by John Williams on January 17, 2021

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