With today's technology, it should be trivial to locate an eye on someone's face, even if the photo is a little noisy. I'm clicking dead in the centre of the damned scarlet pupil ffs!
Worse still is that there isn't a proper manual placement - I have to find something that somehow looks like an eye (in this case, it seems stripes of plain black facepaint on a cheek, not eyelike in your wildest imaginations), click on that, and then move and resize the frigging thing into the correct place.
And even when it does actually manage to correct identify eyes, more than half the time it creates the correction spot too small, giving a funny red ring effect which I then need to manually fix too.
Oh, and another thing, it assumes all eyes are round/elliptoid, and is unable to detect skin tones. So when you have someone with a half-closed eye, you get a darkening effect on their eyelid too.
Heh, I read about that at the time, but hadn't seen a video of it in action. Is pretty terrible that it doesn't even attempt tracking. :S
Haven't really got a big enough sample to determine if LRs redeye stuff is worse (or better), but it doesn't appear to be any difference (i.e. it's equally crap with all skintones).
I can't remember the orig video (or be bothered to check), but I don't remember it being particularly dim - seemed more like a bright shop.
Given that most people will be using it inside, you'd think they'd want to be coping better with lower light conditions.
Glasses, by the way, seem to trip up this crappy red eye too.
Places a bit dot in the centre of the glass (twice as big, only partly over pupil) for the left eye, and a smaller one inside that for the right eye which isn't even close to overlapping.
Not like glasses are a particularly uncommon facial feature. :/
btw, when you get a part white part red eye, is that because the person is wearing a shiny contact lens which is reflecting the light, or do they have a freaky multicoloured retina?
Probably a stray reflection, but in children it can be a symptom of retinoblastoma, there was a case in the news recently. If it's a child it would be worth mentioning it.
You've made me paranoid now... don't want to go looking through 500 photos again. :S
I've noticed it in a few pictures, which are mostly young people (15..25 I guess), but looking closer at the specific one it probably is a stray reflection - just remembered there's stage lights which could do it.
Only an utterly incompetent, amateur photographer using a shit camera (a cell-phone, perhaps?), or a portraitist of chronic drunks ("their eyes were the colour of frozen meat") would ever need something called "redeye correction".
