Cats are not always cooperative in posing for pictures. But sometimes, the moment is right, the lightening is good, and Fluffy is not licking the base of her tail. You run get your camera and surreptitiously snap a quick picture. The picture looks great except for the reflection in the cat’s eyes. Now you can use commonly available image editing software to improve your picture.

Most photo editing software these days have special tools for quickly and easily removing red eye from your photos. But often, these red eye removal tools do not work on "pet eye". Pet eye is the glowing white, green, red, or yellow eye reflections that you often get when using a flash to take pet photos. Because pet eye is not always red, the automatic red eye removal tools don’t work well - if at all.

This tutorial shows you a fairly easy way to fix the pet eye problem simply by painting over the problem part of the eye in your photo-editing software. You can follow this tutorial using any software that supports layers, though I am using Photoshop Elements for these screen shots. You should have some basic familiarity with your software’s paintbrush and layer features for working this tutorial.

Pet Eye Tutorial

Posted by Julie.