Remove red eye from a photo

How it works

1. 1Add a photo: drag it onto the uploader or pick one from your device.
2. 2An editing model repaints the pupils in a natural color and changes nothing else.
3. 3Look at the result, then download it or run another photo through.

These models reconstruct rather than recover: they produce a plausible version of what was probably there, so results vary with the source photo. Run it again or try a different image if the first pass misses.

What to expect

Flash red eye is the back of the retina lit up by a flash sitting close to the lens, and the fix is to repaint the pupil in a natural color while leaving everything around it alone. On a straight on flash portrait it does that well, including several affected people in one frame. Two cases go less smoothly. Animal eyeshine, the green or yellow glow you get from a cat or a dog, is a different effect and often comes back over corrected. And eyes so small in the frame that the pupil is a handful of pixels can be repainted as slightly different eyes rather than the ones you had. The whole photo passes through the editing model, so compare the result against the original before keeping it.

Best results: A flash portrait where the eyes are open, in focus, and large enough in the frame to see the pupil clearly.

Common questions

Does it work on pet eyes?

Partly. The green or yellow eyeshine animals get is a different effect from human red eye, so results vary and the correction can overshoot. Check it against the original before keeping it.

Will it change my eye color?

The aim is a natural pupil with the iris left as it was, and on a clear portrait that is what you get. Where the eyes are tiny in the frame, more of the eye is rebuilt and the iris can shift slightly.

Does the rest of the photo stay identical?

The instruction is to change nothing else, and the result is resized back to your original dimensions. Because the entire frame goes through an editing model, small changes elsewhere are still possible, so compare the two before you keep it.

It skipped somebody in a group shot. What now?

It usually treats every affected pair of eyes it can see, but a face turned away, in shadow, or far from the camera can be missed. Crop tighter around that person and run the crop on its own.

What do I upload, and what comes back?

JPG, PNG, or WebP up to 25 MB. The result comes back as a PNG at the same dimensions you uploaded.