How does one correct blood shot eyes in aperture? I used the doge tool to brighten them but it seems to highlight the redness of the veins.
How does one correct blood shot eyes in aperture? I used the doge tool to brighten them but it seems to highlight the redness of the veins.
Without seeing the eye you are referring too - I would guess to try using the retouch brush tool. Though I personally am not a huge fan of retouched eyes myself…
www.nicknieto.com / Portland, Oregon
Nor am I but in this case I have no option as the red veining is just too distracting. Thanks of the reply I will give it a go but not sure that it will work. I guess I could try exporting to photoshop and try painting - the surreal may work quite well with these images.
spearphoto
One thing I would keep an eye on… if you try to retouch the eyes with the retouch brush or other brushes in aperture. I have had good results when I dial back the opacity on the brush. It should give you a bit more realistic result.
www.nicknieto.com / Portland, Oregon
Thanks for the extra tip, I will give it a try.
spearphoto
Hi,
One technique that I have use in a few similar case:
Sorry if menu item name are not perfect, I am using Aperture in French :)
Hope it will work for u,
J.
Thanks could be good if I go down the monochrome route I will bear it in mind.
spearphoto
Another option (and Francophone Joe may have touched on this but it was lost in translation) would be to use a Saturation adjustment brush - just on the bloodshot bits - with the saturation dialled down to taste.
Russell
Thanks for this tip and sorry not to get to replying sooner I have been called away to work this last week.
I think you are right that Francophone Joe’s tip may have been lost in translation, are you saying that I can just brush in desaturation on the eyes and then adjust the effect with the amount slider - this sounds a very good idea indeed and i am going to give it a try.
So thanks again for the great tip.
spearphoto
There is a red eye reduction tool in Aperture. You can access it by hitting the “E” key, or via the red eye icon at the menu bar at the bottom of the screen when viewing an individual photo. Give it a try. I’ve had mixed results with it.
BopperZip
Hmm. But that’s designed for the red reflex problem, where light reflected from the blood vessels at the back of the eye is seen through the pupil, not engorgement of the blood vessels of the sclera/conjunctiva (i.e. the “whites of the eyes”).
Or are you saying that you somehow brush the red eye correction over the whites of the eye too to “remove” conjunctival blood vessels too?
Russell
Sorry, I should have read more carefully…redeye and blood shot are two different things.
BopperZip
In a couple of cases, the zone picked by Aperture may be either marginally too substantial or somewhat too little (regularly incorporating a couple of pixels in the eyelid skin, or missing a couple of red pixels inside the student). For these troublesome cases, you can alter the Affectability parameter to change the region where desaturation happens. For instance, I typemyessay by dragging the Affectability slider to one side by one indent diminishes the range of the dynamic region inside the Red Eye target overlay by one pixel, and dragging the Affectability slider one score to the privilege amplifies it by one pixel.