Doggie and kittie "Blue-eye"

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Doggie and kittie "Blue-eye"

Hi Aperture Lovers,

With the new brushes and adjustments of Aperture 3, is there now a way to remove animal "blue eye" like we can remove human "red eye"? (In Ap 2 I could not figure out a means to do it.)

thanks,
nathan

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Aperture 3.1.1

Posted on Jan 8, 2011 6:52 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 8, 2011 7:10 PM in response to Mr Endo

Keep looking around -- I've seen this mentioned enough that there is probably an excellent solution.

Until then, try using the Color Brick. Click the blue square, the use the dropper to pick the eye color. Reduce saturation and luminance all the way. Ignore the effect anywhere but the eyes. If it works, click the Action Menu icon (it's a gear), "Brush Color In" (your adjustments disappear until you brush them in), and brush in the just the eyes.

There is no Quick Brush or preset (that I know of).

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Answer 2

Mr Endo Author

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Jan 9, 2011 6:17 AM in response to Kirby Krieger

Kirby,

I like that idea. I have barely touched the surface with the new brushes feature of Aperture 3, so your idea was exactly what I was hoping for. It seems to work pretty well, and I have to imagine it's pretty close to how the red-eye tool works internally.

I assumed there would be many conversations about this (and you say you have seen it mentioned), but I am apparently not searching for the right things in the discussion group and on the Internet as I have found only bogus hits.

I'm marking the question as answered since I do have a pretty good answer now. I think you and I agree it's not optimal, but still pretty good!

thanks,
nathan

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