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Welcome to the first tutorial. In this tutorial we'll deal with a very common problem: red eyes. Who hasn't taken a picture, perfect pose, perfect smile except for those red eyes?
There are several methods to remove the red eyes by using Photoshop; I will show you the ones that I like best.


This is our basic picture, which we will use in all the methods. As you can see it definitely has red eyes, making me look like a demon of some sort. (Which I am not, despite what some people might say)

First method: paint it black

First of all, desaturate the area of the pupil that is red or pink. Do this by pressing Ctrl+O, or by selecting the Sponge Tool. Choose a round, soft brush, of the right size, and set the mode to desaturate if it isn?t already. Zoom in and desaturate the pupils.
Make a new layer by pressing Shift+Ctrl+N. Using a soft, round brush paint over the pupils with a black color.
Set the blending mode of the layer with the black pupils on it to Soft Light or Overlay, depending upon which looks best in your case. Reduce the opacity a bit if it is necessary. If you chose Overlay as the blending mode you will need less opacity. These things depend upon the general colors and levels of the picture. This will be the result, with Overlay and opacity of 60%.



Second method: Burn baby burn!

First of all, desaturate the area of the pupil that is red or pink. Do this by pressing Ctrl+O, or by selecting the Sponge Tool. Choose a round, soft brush, of the right size, and set the mode to desaturate if it isn?t already. Zoom in and desaturate the pupils.
Choose the Burn Tool, pick a nice size and put the exposure to approximately 50%. Paint over the pupil and don't let go of your mouse until you have done one whole pupil. If you let go too early, press Ctrl+Z, or otherwise the whole pupil will become pitch-black, and it will look very unnatural.
You're done now, and the result will look like this:



So, these were my two favorite methods. It depends upon the picture which one works best. For the picture that I used in this tutorial the first method worked best, since the second took away too much of the shine in the eye. It's important though that you try both of them, and simply look which one works out for you, which one fits your style and picture the best.

If you have any questions about this tutorial, simply send me a PM or post a message on the forum.