iPhoto ‘11

Red eyed monster

That’s right, the attack of the red eyed monster is a plague which affects photos the world over. In my household, a lot of photos are taken of nights out, with lots of smiling faces, and lots of red eyes. For those of you who are interested, red-eye in photos is caused by light from your camera flash hitting the back of the eye of a person, and reflecting back red light onto the camera. The only way of fixing this is to manually “paint” over the red parts of the eye using the red eye tool in iPhoto ‘09.

Red Eye ‘11 style

Enter the new Fix Red-Eye tool in ‘11. Go to your picture, click on Edit, and then choose Fix Red-Eye. Now, choose “Auto-fix red-eye” and watch all the red eyes in the photo get fixed at once! Having gone through a few dozen photos like this, I was impressed at just how easy it was. The odd photo didn’t quite work, and that needed the old fashioned manual fix. All in all, this feature has me won over!