Yellow eyes in photos

[Louise and Toby]

Okay, another question. Whenever I take a flash photo of our doodle he turns out with yellow eyes - kind of like our "red eye" problem. Do any of you know how to prevent, or fix, this?
Thanks again!

[Adina P]

It's due to dogs' retro-luminescence (sp?) bouncing light back to you when you flash. I think the best way is to use natural light as much as possible. Hopefully someone on here has more knowledge!

[Tante & Jordan & now Annie!]

You cant prevent it but you can fix it! I have Corel photo ed. and they have an animal glow eye fix. It's why I bought Corel over Photo Shop but now Photo Shop has it also. You can also use paint and go in and "draw" a circle and fill it but make sure you add a star ( a dot to show the direction of the eyes) and you will need to be careful with your colors so your dog does not look strange. Play around with it you will get good at fixing it.
Let me know how it goes.

[Louise and Toby]

Thanks so much for the hint - I just need to play around with it. I have Photo Shop from a year or two ago - maybe I can update it and get that feature. I appreciate your help!

[Richard Crowe]

Prevention: A camera with a built-in flash is usually the culprit. The flash fires its light along the axis of the lens and is reflected back into the lens. This is exactly the same dynamics as re-eye in humans. A prevention is to use a separate flash which is raised above the axis of the lens. Many cameras incorporate a hotshoe on which a separate flash can be mounted. Bouncing the flash against the ceiling (this absolutely requires a separate flash unit) gives the most natural lighting and will definitely prevent "red eye" or "dog eye". Bouncing a flash is the absolute best way to use flash indoors.

Cure: You can often remedy "dog eyes" in a post processing program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. There is a free post processing program available on the Internet called Picasa (not Picasso):

http://picasa.google.com/