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Garry,

Try doing it in the Red channel.  Mask the area you want to affect, then
reduce the brightness of the area you have masked.  This will reduce the
amount of red.
For a mask that 'tapers' toward the edge use a fountain fill as a mask.  To
see this checkout this tutorial  http://www.unleash.com/mikeb/graymask/

Mike
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Garry W wrote in message <3712ce39.135680078@nntp-server>...
>twister1@mindless.com (Twister) wrote:
>>In Photopaint 8, you can achieve a similar effect by masking the eyes
>>on the photo and then using the Image, Adjust, Color Hue and adding
>>the colour hue that you want.
>
>That's what the online help recommends, but I've tried it and I can't see
how
>changing a glowing red eye into a glowing cyan eye does you any good at
all.
>You have to get into changing the brightness/intensity. I've tried
>desaturating, but the eyes come out looking like Little Orphan Annie. And
>I've tried just darkening with various kinds of brushes, and it comes out
>looking terrible. I'm not enough of an artist.
>
>What I'd like is a round overlay that has the effect of darkening in the
>center, tapering appropriately to the edges, of appropriate diameter. I'm
>using PP and I'm new to it. I'm now doing for red-eye is:
>
>        1) create a round mask covering the iris of the eye
>        2) create an object
>        3) create a radial-gradient bucket fill, dark in the center, white
at
>           the edge.
>        4) bucket-fill the round mask on the object layer with the radial
>           gradient
>        5) set the object merge type to "multiply". (This will darken in
>           the center while still retaining some of the original hue.)
>        6) adjust the object merge "opacity" slider to get the desired
>           level of center darkening. (30-50% usually works for me; you
>           want to leave a bit of "glint" in center of the eye still.)
>        7) repeat 1-6 for each additional red eye.
>
>However, this is a little tedious. More than a little tedious.
>
>1) Is there a better way to do red-eye than this? Can the above recipe be
>improved on/simplified?
>
>2) the radial-gradients that the program generates appear to be straight
>interpolations. A curving fall-off in the darkening would work better here.
>Can I diddle a gamma, for example, somewhere?
>
>3) thanks
>
>Garry