Removing "Pet Eye"

[gothgirl]

What methods do people use to remove "pet eye" from photos?

Where you get a white/blue/green reflection from the flash or surrounding light?

Also my dog has some scar tissue on his eye, which shows up more in pictures than in real life, how can I remove it without the image ending up unrealistic?

Sample pic:

 

[RicherSea]

Same way you do in humans. Either paint in some black, or clone in from the other eye if it's only in one eye.

 

[Kerioak]

The easiest way would be to create a new layer, paint the relevant part black and then reduce the opacity of the layer to your preference. I would not toally try and remove the scar tissue totally as this is one of the things that makes your dog unique to you

 

[swanseamale47]

Do you mean the red veins in the white of the eye? I bit of dodging and some reducing the red in hue saturation should help.

 

[Kerioak]

Just had a thought, it is natural for older dogs to have bluish pupils rather than jet black ones

 

[gothgirl]

But what about removing "Pet Eye" from flash?

You can't sample from the other eye, if both eyes have the flash reflection?

And what if the dog has naturally light brown eyes, or blue like a husky for example? You can't paint that over black, it would look really bad

 

[DekHog]

Make a selection of both the eyes that are green/blue/red, then reduce the saturation of the selection and that's it fixed. You can copy the selection to a new layer if you wish. You can also just use the sponge tool on them set to desaturate.

You can then use the burn tool if you have to darken the eyes again...

 

[Kerioak]

Usually it is the pupil that is affected, can you show some other examples to demonstrate?

If there is any intact eye left you can cut a bit out and transform it to cover the "damaged" area, or draw it in, this is possible with a lot of practice

 

[OlyPaul]

From a Photoshop Elements tutorial I did on another site and one of many methods that can be used.

My method is to use a Hue and Saturation layer technique (it also works well on human red eye).

Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Sat > OK.

This brings up the hue & sat adjustment layer dialogue box.
Now change the channel to the colour of the eye (here it was blues) click on the + eyedropper and click on the different shades of blue in the eye.

Now adjust the three sliders to get the colour and saturation you want, this method keeps the life in eye and if need be later on you can use the burn tool to darken it a little more if needed.

With this method (unless you select the eyes first with a selection tool) any other blues in the image will be altered as well, so simply paint with black using the layer mask to remove any other altered colours that you wish to keep as is, and is the reason I included a blue blob to demonstrate.

 

[Dune]

One thing dont get rid of all the reflection other wise the eyes look dead. Cute dog!