Request | Eye Color Changes

Gigpixel and PhotoAI both keep changing blue eyes to brown, not always but often. Would it be possible to have a setting to tell the applications up front what color the eyes are supposed to be rather than letting the software try to figure it out? Having to go back and change eye color after Gigapixel and PhotoAI have turned them brown is a hassle.

Thanks.

Hi Michael,

Do you notice if this results from applying certain settings using Face Recovery?
Or does it occur when any upscaling is applied?

Can you predictably recreate the eye color change with specific images, or is it random when it occurs?

These details can help us report to the developers for future features and fixes.

Thanks :pray:

Most of the images I use Photo AI or Gigapixel on are low resolution digital images from the 90’s, 320x240 or 640x480. There is very little detail in the eyes unless it is a closeup of the face. I can see how the applications would think the eyes were dark to begin with although often there is a hint of blue, often only a few pixels, in the original. Upscaling and face recovery are nearly always used on those photos. Often when upscaled with face recovery the results are quite surprisingly good, with detail in the eyes even having the shading of the iris, but, often the color of the eyes is changed from blue to brown, occasionally hazel. It seems to happen more with darker blue eyes. The more grey eyes seem to upscale more accurately, colorwise.

I can see how the software thinks those eyes should be brown since they are very low resolution images that don’t clearly show the eye color, just a few bluish pixels, the rest being quite dark. Sometimes it does the same thing to green eyes, turning them brown or hazel.

Thinking out loud:

How could this feature handle group photos, where there are many faces with all kinds of different eye colors? Would the UI quickly get cluttered?

How should it behave when a color tinted scan is used, sepia tone, or with a black and white image?

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