GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 336380
red eye removal often 'fixes' more than just eyes
Last modified: 2007-02-13 13:57:48 UTC
The red eye removal tool in f-spot does a pretty good job of fixing the redeye in a selected region, but it is often overzealous, and 'corrects' more than just the eye. With a rectangular region, its hard to get just the part of the eye that is wanted. Perhaps a better model for red-eye correction would be to enter 'red-eye correction mode' in which a click on the photo fixes a connected red region. I've thrown together a quick gtk program that does simply this: you start it up with a file name as an argument, then every click in a red region corrects that region. So if there are 6 red eyes, you just click on each eye. In this program, closing the window gives a prompt for a file name to save to. Something like this I think would make the red eye tool much more useful. I'll attach my program as an attachment. Other information:
Created attachment 62230 [details] stand-alone example program showing improved redeye removal
Would it be possible to create a small patch for F-Spot to do this? A patch would be quicker to accept than an request for an enhancement...
I think this bug is related to: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356438
I can confirm this bug. If a face is somewhat red-ish, often the brows of the person will be mangled as well. And the rectacle shape of the selection doesn't help with that. I personally like the magic-wand idea suggested here.
I pushed a new improved red-eye reduction code in svn on last xmas.