How to remove red-eye in pictures

Somewhere somehow, red eyes seem to attach itself to our photographs. This makes our friends and loved ones look like version of Exorcist. To avoid red eye from haunting us, Fireworks MX 2004 has a tool for removing this effect on photos.

The Red-eye Removal tool works by removing all shades of red within a certain range that are within selected area. These, in turn, will be replaced by a neutral color range of gray and black.

To remove red-eye effect, Macromedia has provided following steps for Red-eye Removal tool:

1.Select bitmap that exhibits red eye effect. You can only use Red-eye Removal tool on a bitmap, and not on a vector image.

2. Choose Red-eye Removal tool from Tools panel. This tool can be found in Replace Color tool pop-up menu.

3. Click with tool in section that exhibits red eye effect. The tool instantly transforms red shades, to tolerances set in Property inspector for tool.

4. Since tool only looks for red pixels, it should cleanly remove red eye. Adjust tolerance settings to fine tune Red-eye Removal tool for your image.

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This article was created for the sole purpose of propagating information that may be related to short run printing and other industries to which it may be of interest.