Tutorial for how to remove red eyes with Gimp.

You can use this tutorial for removal of a red eye in pictures, images or photo portraits with Gimp. You can also retouch, remove, correct and fix shining eyes of a pet or baby animal with help of this tutorial.

Author Moris Garon for Gimps.de with Photo Software Gimp.

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Short info about Red Eyes in Images

Photos with red eyes are caused by the reflection of red color of blood in the eye. The natural black color of eye lenses is almost lost through the effect of the red eye. Pictures and images with red eyes of people or shining eyes of animals often look scary, demoniacal and unattractive. Gimp is a good software to retouch, correct or remove red eyes in a photo, image and picture.

Gimp is a free digital photo editing software,

a program and a tool for red eye removal in an image, photo or picture. The following guide helps you to retouch, correct, remove red eyes of people and shining eyes of cat, dog, fish or other animal.

# 1 - bleach the color of red eyes

Click on the Gimp's paintbrush tool

twice and set it's mode to color.

Choose a fuzzy brush with a right size for the eyes that you retouch. Paint with a black color on the red eyes to bleach the red color. Keep the mouse key pressed while you paint to avoid loss of details in already painted spots.

# 2 - paint the eyes in black

Set the mode of paintbrush to overlay.

Paint with a black color on the already bleached red eyes to make the eyes shine in natural black again. Keep the mouse key pressed while you paint to avoid loss of details in already painted spots of the image.

a photo with red eye before and after retouch

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