Thursday
Mar272008
Trying Photoshop Express On My Mom And Her New Boyfriend
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 09:52AM
I was playing around with the new Adobe Photoshop Express this morning after we filmed Loaded. The main reason I wanted this was red-eye removal. Flickr does this but only if the subject's eyes are wide open. For example, I tried to use Flickr to fix the red-eye in the picture below, which happens to be a photo of my mother on the right, Danny DeVito, and her boss Kathy at the 2008 Keep Memory Alive Annual Gala. As an aside, my mother attends this gala every year to help find a cure for Alzheimer's because my grandmother suffered from this terrible disease for nearly five years before she passed in December of 2006.
Anyway, my mother wanted me to take the red eye out of this photo. Every single one of them had it. Flickr was able to get the red-eye out of my mother's eyes as well as Danny DeVito's but it could not handle Kathy's eyes. That happens a lot in Flickr's photo editor. It just can't handle some eyes for some reason. Photoshop Express worked but I still think the eyes look a little unnatural. Kathy's eyes are not black like that. Regular Photoshop would make this task a lot easier but I don't have that program. I haven't used Picasa's photo editor yet either. I'll play around with it later but for now, enjoy this rough sampling of my first attempts to Photoshop Express.
Anyway, my mother wanted me to take the red eye out of this photo. Every single one of them had it. Flickr was able to get the red-eye out of my mother's eyes as well as Danny DeVito's but it could not handle Kathy's eyes. That happens a lot in Flickr's photo editor. It just can't handle some eyes for some reason. Photoshop Express worked but I still think the eyes look a little unnatural. Kathy's eyes are not black like that. Regular Photoshop would make this task a lot easier but I don't have that program. I haven't used Picasa's photo editor yet either. I'll play around with it later but for now, enjoy this rough sampling of my first attempts to Photoshop Express.
Reader Comments (7)
Looks good to me.
Auto red reducers do tend to zap lighter eye shades for darker, and they don't always work -- especially when the red eye is a huge yellow spot of reflected retina.
Under photoshop, I tend to select the eyes then reduce the red through color balance. Then do a clean up with the brush set on multiply or color using a shade similar, if eyedropped, from the actual shade from the picture. It's a lot more work, but there's a lot more manual control. Do it for more than 3-5 photos in a row, and you'll go crazy.
Have you tried iPhoto's redeye reducer? It's not bad and is somewhat tweakable manually to select the exact spot of the eye it should focus on. Sometimes though, it's off the mark.
Have to try the free Photoshop and compare it to the CS version I use now. Considering there are other open-source photoeditors around. It's a good move for Adobe to give everyone a taste of the gold-standard app for photoediting.
Of course you could match her eye color,and use paint to color the natural color in the eye.
Just love "Loaded" and the aka new "host". Have you try Picassa for organizing your photos and simple editing.Give it a try.
I got three words for you.... "off camera flash". Tough with a point and shoot and a built-in flash - Red Eye is a way of life. I have to say I'm fairly impressed with Photoshop Express. It's of course slower as you point out but for an occasional user... not bad at all. Looks like it did a good job of processing.
yeah, iphoto!
That's awesome that your mother and Danny are dating :P
Hey Tell Danny to lay off! That's my lady! :)