Fix Red Eye

The problem this solves

A direct flash in a dim room can light up the back of the eye and turn pupils red. The expression and the moment may be exactly what you wanted, and you cannot retake a birthday or a family evening.

When people ask for this

• Candid shots from birthdays, holidays and family gatherings taken with a phone or camera flash
• Photos you want to add to a family album or print
• Older snapshots where red eyes are the only thing keeping you from sharing a good picture

What we change, and what we keep

A human editor, with AI tools assisting where they help, removes the red from the pupils and checks it against the visible iris color. The small bright flash reflections in the eyes stay where they are, so the eyes look alive. The dim room, the flash look and the expression stay too; only the eye defect is removed, and nothing else in the scene is reinterpreted.

The work relies on what is still visible. If the red covers so much of the eye that the iris cannot be seen, we cannot know the true eye color from that photo alone. Another recent photo of the same person with the eyes clearly visible helps us match it. Without one we will not promise an exact color, and we do not invent new eyes or remove the original reflections.

What to send

Your original photo, ideally the full-size file rather than a screenshot. If the red covers the whole eye, add one more recent photo of the same person where the eye color can be seen.

Private: recreated on our own images, not customer photos

The before/after shown here is recreated on images created or licensed for this site — never a real customer's photo. Your upload is seen only by the editor working on it, and the edit comes with free revisions within 14 days of delivery if anything needs adjusting.