Spooky glowing green animal eyes

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Spooky glowing green animal eyes

How do I edit animal eyes - my cat & dog pictures look pretty good except for the spooky glowing green eyes. Thanks for any advice you can give.

iMac 24", Mac OS X (10.6.2), Snow Leopard

Posted on Dec 20, 2009 10:05 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Dec 20, 2009 10:06 AM in response to GweedoLaRoo

You'll need an external editor for this. In order of price here are some suggestions:

Seashore (free)
_[The Gimp|http://www.gimp.org/macintosh>_ also free
Graphic Coverter ($45 approx)
Acorn ($50 approx)
[Pixelmator|http://www.pixelmator.com> ($60 approx.)
Photoshop Elements ($75 approx)

There are many, many other options. Search on MacUpdate.

You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.

Regards

TD

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GweedoLaRoo Author

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Dec 20, 2009 4:35 PM in response to GweedoLaRoo

Thank you for the information so far.

Using an outside editing program makes me think - I do have the Olympus photo program that came with my Olympus camera on my computer. This does edit animal eyes. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to get photos from iPhoto over to the Olympus program for editing. Can you give me any tips on doing that?

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Old Toad

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Dec 20, 2009 6:07 PM in response to GweedoLaRoo

You can try this method: go to the iPhoto/General preference pane and use the Edit Photo menu to select the Olympus photo program.

Click to view full size

Then when you double click on a thumbnail the photo will open in the Olympus program.

Using 2 Image Editors in iPhoto
If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and a 3rd party editor without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected the 3rd party editor as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". Then when you Control-click on an image, you can select "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu to edit in your selected editor.

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GweedoLaRoo Author

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Dec 21, 2009 8:25 AM in response to GweedoLaRoo

Thank you. I was able to select OlympusMaster2 as my edit option, but when I tried to edit a photo I got the following message:

The document “PC171417.JPG” could not be opened. OLYMPUS Master 2 cannot open files in the “Preview Document” format.

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Yer_Man

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Dec 21, 2009 8:30 AM in response to GweedoLaRoo

How did you send the pic to this editor?

When iPhoto sends a pic to an external it sends over a standard jpeg. My guess is that (like most Macs) your Preview app is set as the default app for opening jpegs. Why this software is looking at the default app and not the file suffix is one you'll need to take up with the makers.

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TD

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GweedoLaRoo Author

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Dec 21, 2009 8:45 AM in response to Yer_Man

OK, this is getting too complicated for me - believe me it doesn't take much. I am going to abandon the OlympusMaster2 idea. Now how do I get Olympus off my options as Photo edit and get In Application back on?

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GweedoLaRoo Author

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Dec 21, 2009 9:00 AM in response to Yer_Man

My only choices for photo edit at the moment are OlympusMaster2 and iPhoto. I want to get iPhoto back as my choice for photo edit but I am unable to click it as an option when I go to the applications list. It is a lighter color than anything else on the list and won't click.

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GweedoLaRoo Author

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Dec 21, 2009 9:21 AM in response to GweedoLaRoo

Oops. I see I can still use iPhoto for editing even though Olympus is included in the list of options.

For now I'll stick with iPhoto editing and leave the spooky eyes green until I have a chance to check out some of the other edit programs and suggestions offered. I do wish Mac had included a fix for green animal eyes in their basic photo editing though. I'm surprised they didn't.

Thank you very much Terence and Old Toad for your help and patience.

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Old Toad

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Dec 20, 2009 11:25 AM in response to GweedoLaRoo

I use the Clone tool in Photoshop Elements to close a good eye from a good picture of the dog and paste it over the green eye.

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GweedoLaRoo Author

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Dec 21, 2009 8:11 AM in response to GweedoLaRoo

Old Toad, when I go into iPhoto Preferences and click on Edit photo the options I have are:
In main window
Using full screen
In application

I don't see any choice for picking an edit program.

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Yer_Man

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Dec 21, 2009 8:14 AM in response to GweedoLaRoo

Select 'In Application' and a dialogue will open that allows you to select which application.

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TD

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Answer 12

Yer_Man

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Dec 21, 2009 8:49 AM in response to GweedoLaRoo

You don't have to do that. To choose another editor just select that name in the preferences and it will open the Choose an Application dialogue again.

Regards

TD

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