Banish “Dog Eye” from Your Digital Photos

Everyone knows about “red-eye” in pictures of people and now most digital cameras even correct for it right in the camera, but what about those spooky glowing eyes of your pets?

Sandra, my SO, writes about dogs, sansanpups.com.  Besides the shameless plug, the relevancy is that people are always sending her pictures of their dogs.  The dogs in most of the pictures look like refugees from “The Night of the Living Dead”-pet edition.  See our dog, Kaley, above.  Pet eyes have a reflective quality that, well, reflects back the light from the flash in an even more eerie way than the red-eye in humans.

What to do? What to do?

The easiest way to fix your pet photos is also free.  I’ve mentioned picnik.com before, it’s a very useful online site for repairing and enhancing digital photos.

What sets it apart from the rest is while attempting to fix your pet’s glowing eyes you usually have to play with the normal red-eye settings or go to elaborate steps using something way high-end like Adobe Photoshop, while picnik.com actually allows you a furball option for correcting your pet’s eyes.

Here’s the sequence.

Visit picnik.com

Upload your pet’s pic

Within the Edit tab, choose Red-eye and

there, lo and behold, you’re given a choice between human and furball.

Furball will work great at making your pet’s glowing eyes, stop glowing.

When you’re finished, save your results.

Kaley corrected below.

More examples after the jump.