Remove red eye from a photo taken with flash: red pupils in people, glowing eyes in pets, every face in a group shot. Upload it, and only the eyes change.
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Drag the slider on each pair. Faces, colors and framing stay exactly the same; only the pupils change.
A flash at an indoor party turns several pupils red at once. Upload the whole photo: every face that looks into the camera is fixed in one run, including people behind glasses. Eyes that are tiny in the frame are fixed too, but zoom in with the slider to check them before you download.
Red eye in a selfie is often just a small red dot in each pupil. The pupil becomes dark again and the iris keeps its own color, so blue eyes stay blue and makeup stays as it was.
Animals get red eye from a flash too, often in a stronger red or orange. The glow is replaced with a dark, natural pupil, and fur and markings around the eyes stay untouched.
Cats, dogs and wild animals often glow yellow, green or white in flash photos taken at night. That glow is fixed the same way, and the dark scene keeps its brightness. When an animal is very small in the frame, crop the photo first so the eyes are easier to find.
Three steps, usually with under a minute of waiting. Nothing to paint or select.
JPG, PNG or WebP up to 20 MB. Phone photos and scans of old prints both work.
Red, orange, white and glowing pupils are found on their own, in people and animals. Everything outside the eyes is kept exactly as you uploaded it.
Zoom in with the slider to check each face, then save the photo. It keeps its original size.
Red eye comes from the flash lighting up the back of the eye. Here is what to expect when you fix it with AI.
Red pupils in close-ups, selfies and group photos become dark and natural. The iris keeps its own color, and faces, skin and makeup don't change.
Animal eyes reflect flash as red, yellow, green or white. Each is turned into a dark pupil. Pets with naturally pale or unusual eye colors may look a little darker than in real life, so compare with the slider.
Eyes only a few pixels wide can be missed or fixed only partly; crop closer and run it again. A red glow on glasses, a lamp or a bright reflection near the eyes is not red eye and is left as it is. For reflections on glasses, use Remove Glare from Photo.
Phone and desktop editors have red-eye tools too. Here is how they work and where they fall short.
Manual tools paint pupils one at a time and can't tell red eye from a red earring. If a group photo has a dozen red eyes, this page fixes them all in one run. For old flash prints with scratches or fading too, use Restore Old Photos after the red eye is gone.
On iPhone, open the photo in Photos, tap Edit and look for the red-eye button at the top, then tap each red eye. It only appears for some flash photos and often leaves a gray dot. On Android, Google Photos has no red-eye tool on most phones, so use this page or a desktop editor.
Pick the Red Eye tool (grouped with the Spot Healing Brush, shortcut J), set Pupil Size and Darken Amount, and click each pupil. It works well on red pupils and poorly on yellow or green animal eyes.
Snapseed has no red-eye button. Open Tools > Brush > Saturation, set it to a negative value, zoom in and paint over each pupil until the red turns gray.
Turn on more lights so pupils get smaller, turn on red-eye reduction in the camera, ask people to look slightly away from the lens, or bounce the flash off the ceiling.
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In dim light the pupils are wide open. The flash fires close to the lens, lights up the blood-rich back of the eye and bounces straight back to the camera, so the pupil shows up red. In animals a reflective layer behind the retina makes the glow yellow, green or white instead.
No. Only the pupil, the dark center of the eye, is changed. The iris keeps its color and pattern, and everything outside the eyes is kept exactly as you uploaded it.
Yes. Red, yellow, green and white flash glows in pet and animal eyes are turned into dark pupils. Pets with naturally pale eyes may come out a little darker, so check with the slider before you save.
Yes. Every face that looks into the camera is fixed in one run, including people wearing glasses. Very small faces at the back of a big group may be missed; crop the group closer and run it again.
Open this page in Safari, tap Upload and pick the photo from your library. When it's done, tap Download to save it back to Photos. The Photos app has a red-eye button only for some flash photos, and it often leaves a gray spot; this page works on any photo, including screenshots and scans.
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