Two Ways to Kill Red Eye in Photoshop (And When to Use Each One)

Two Ways to Kill Red Eye in Photoshop (And When to Use Each One)

Portrait retouching has a way of humbling you. You can spend an hour perfecting skin tones, dodging and burning like a fine art printer, and then someone points out the glowing demon eyes in the background that you somehow stopped noticing. Red eye is one of those problems that feels embarrassing to have and equally embarrassing to fix badly. A heavy-handed correction leaves you with flat black blobs where pupils should be, and that looks almost worse than the original.