Remove Red Eye From Digital photos

If you notice something strange about pictures of your friends, don't call the exorcist just yet. Some people--and lighting conditions--are perfect breeding grounds for devilish red-eye. Wide-open pupils, whether by nature or stimulated by low light conditions, allow the camera's flash to bounce off the blood vessels at the back of the eye and leave your friends looking like they're possessed.

Rather than wearing garlic around your neck and carrying a wooden stake, these tips should help bring your friends back from the dark side.

1. Use your camera's red-eye-reduction flash setting. Scroll through the flash settings until you find an icon that looks like an eye. This will tell the camera to emit a preflash that will cause your subjects' pupils to constrict and help prevent the light from bouncing off the blood vessels at the back of the eyes.
2. Turn up the lights. Bright lights have the same effect on your subject's pupils as your camera's red-eye-reduction setting and with the pupils less dilated, red-eye should be reduced.
3. Shoot at an angle. If you angle your camera so that the flash doesn't project directly onto your friends' eyes, there's no light to bounce back, and if the flash is pointed in the right direction, there's no red-eye. Of course, if you have an off-camera flash, that's even better since it sits higher above the lens than do most onboard light sources. Your friends will be relieved and so will you.
4. Clean it up in software. If none of the other methods work to eliminate your friends' demon eyes, there's still hope. All image-editing programs have a red-eye-removal feature that provides one-click fixes. Generally, all you have to do is select the red-eye tool, click on the center of your subject's eye, and before you can say Rosemary's baby, the red is gone.