Digital cameras 101

[icarly]

Hello

Are there some tips or advice on "red eye" even with the flash setting on "red eye pre-flash turned off" which states the flash fires once and the camera automatically corrects red eye in the picture.

I am still getting red eye, for some reason.
I have been taking some sample photos, in a living room with just the light bulb on with the flash.

But taking it without the flash there is no difference apart from no red eye, i thought you had to use the flash indoors.

I have just tryed this without the flash with the light on, then i tryed it again with the flash and the light on but got red eye.

So the mistake i have been making all this time is that i did not have to use the flash in the first place, but i thought you had to use the flash indoors    8-)

[ShutterbugGail]

In my experience, the red-eye reduction mode produces mixed results. I find the pre-flashes can startle the subjects and sometimes their faces show it the resulting photos, so I personally keep red-eye reduction mode turned off. (I get red-eye using pre-flashes, I get red-eye without preflashes.)

Here are some tips to help reduce red-eye:

http://www.digicamhelp.com/taking-photos/basic-techniques/redeye.php

Check your manual for how to remove red-eye in camera. In the compact camera I own, it is removed during the playback mode.

I prefer to remove red-eye when editing. Most photo editing programs have effective tools to remove red-eye. If you don't have a photo editing program, I highly recommend Picasa. It's free and very, very good and has an easy-to-use and effective red-eye removal tool. We have a review of Picasa here:

http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/basic-editing/picasa.php

[icarly]

Thankyou so much for your reply, i will print them out.
 

I do know how to remove the red eye, from the editing software provided on the cd.. but sometimes i just completely forget and go to a kodak machine to print them out, and you guessed it , the good ones always have red eye.

The G610 printer dock has just arrived, i have not yet looked at the instructions properly yet, but i think that has a setting on the printer, to remove red eye, when it is printing.

So with your advice, and using the printer dock i should at least get limited red eye..........thankyou