Need help with altering cats eyes

I didn't know what else to call this thread because it's not 'red eye'
When I fix the red eye on photos I use our HP image zone and its great.
I'm really just getting the hang of our digital camera and sometimes (a lot of the time actually) when I take pics of the cats, their eyes come out like this...


I just tried to use my red eye remover but it doesn't work on it
Anybody have any idea how I can get rid of this as it happens a lot and spoils good photos.
Thanks a lot!

I used the "red eye remover" from PSP X, but didn't have much luck, as you can see from the "blacks" of their eyes. It would probably be easier with a much bigger photo.

I'm learning through practice that it has something to do with the angle of the flash when you take the picture. It isn't so much red eye as it is a pure reflection of the flash from the cat's eye, just like the way they glow at night if you see them in the gleam of car headlights.

When it happens to me, I play around with the angle of the camera and flash, taking several pics until I get one with no "evil eyes." You might want to try that - I love that you can see and delete the pics right away on a digi!

I recommend turning off the flash and on a few lights - its the only way to stop flash eyes with cats

I photoshopped in some eyes and blurred and layered and it still doesn't look great

just testing to see if I can post.
Cute cats!

I combat this problem by taking pet pics in as bright a light as I can with the flash turned off.
If that doesn't work, try using the red eye reduction mode on your camera's flash if it has one.

I recently discovered the red eye remover with infranview and it works great for me!

Jenn

I get that with my cats all the time. It's from the flash. Do you have a moonlight setting on your digital camera? It helps with animal eyes glowing. The problem is you have to keep the camera very still, and hope your animals stay still too or the picture will be blurry.



I did one cat, I will work on the other one more if you think it looks good.

Originally Posted by GingersMom

I'm learning through practice that it has something to do with the angle of the flash when you take the picture

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. It isn't so much red eye as it is a pure reflection of the flash from the cat's eye, just like the way they glow at night if you see them in the gleam of car headlights.

When it happens to me, I play around with the angle of the camera and flash, taking several pics until I get one with no "evil eyes."

You might want to try that - I love that you can see and delete the pics right away on a digi!

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Many professional photographers will tell you to turn your flash OFF. After all, the flash is the thing causing the eye problem. Every photo editor I know of has some type of feature so that you can add just exactly the right amount of flash (simulated) AFTER you have taken the picture and are editing it. In Photoshop it is called BRIGHTNESS and CONTRAST to give you perfectly exposed pictures AFTER they have been taken and never any red eye or washed out eye problems that are caused by the flash itself. Try taking some pictures of your cats with the flash OFF (but do use available light) and refer to your photo editing software manual on how to edit in simulated (better, in my opinion) flash later.

Here's my attempt at trying to alter the eyes.