Fix Red Eye in an Old Photo

How it works

1. 1

   Upload the scan or a phone photo of the print

   Scan the photo or photograph it flat in even daylight — JPG, PNG, or WebP up to 7MB. Get the eyes as sharp as your scanner or camera allows: the fix works on what it can see, and a blurry 300-pixel face gives it very little to work with.

   Expect: Flash red-eye in a reasonably sharp print fixes cleanly in one pass — the red glow becomes a dark pupil with a natural catchlight. If the print is also faded or yellowed, leave that for a second pass; fixing the colour cast and the eyes together tends to shift skin tones.
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   Describe the fix and name the eye colour

   Type what you want: 'fix the red-eye in this old photo — restore natural dark pupils and brown irises, and leave everything else exactly as it is.' Naming the real eye colour matters; without it the AI guesses, and a lifelong blue-eyed grandfather can come back brown. No colourizing, no smoothing — just the pupils.

   Tip: If more than one person has red-eye, name each: 'the woman on the left has green eyes, the man on the right has brown eyes.'

   Copy one of these to get started:

   Standard flash red-eye fix the red-eye in this old photo — restore natural dark pupils and brown irises, and leave everything else exactly as it is

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   Group photo, several people fix the flash red-eye on everyone in this old photo: restore natural dark pupils, keep each person's own eye colour, and change nothing else in the picture

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   Blue or green eyes fix the red-eye in this scanned photo and restore natural dark pupils with light blue irises — do not colourize or sharpen anything else

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   Faded print, red-eye only fix only the red flash glow in the eyes of this faded old photo; keep the fading, the grain, and the colours of the print exactly as they are

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   3 more prompts

   Pet eye glow fix the green and white flash glow in the dog's eyes in this old photo and restore natural dark eyes, leaving the rest unchanged

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   Red-eye plus a dust speck on the eye fix the red-eye in this old photo and remove the white dust speck sitting on the left eye, restoring natural dark pupils and hazel irises

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   Half-fixed by an old print lab fix the remaining red glow in the pupils of this old photo and make both eyes match: natural dark pupils, dark brown irises, no other changes

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   Check the pupils and the catchlight

   Zoom in on each eye. A good result has a round dark pupil, the iris in the colour you named, and a single small white reflection from the flash. If the whites of the eyes, the eyelids, or the skin around them look different from the original, the edit drifted — run it again with 'change only the pupils'.

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   Use a marker if one eye was missed

   Red-eye is usually caught in both eyes at once, but a face half-turned from the camera can leave one pupil untouched. Tap a marker on that eye and say 'fix the red-eye here too, match the other eye.' Markers are optional and only for a spot the description did not reach.