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> No, you can not digitally alter a photo to remove red eye. You will have to submit a new photo without red eye. What if the camera does that automatically wi

> No, you can not digitally alter a photo to remove red eye. You will have to submit a new photo without red eye. What if the camera does that automatically without you knowing? Technically that still is "digitally alter a photo to remove red eye" (by the way there is no such thing as an unaltered digital photo). What if the camera lets you know it does and offers to turn that off - should you? What if an import script (which fires as you plug your camera/card) on your PC does that without you knowing? What if you know it's there? How does the result of any of these scenarios considered different from just doing that in Photoshop?

ceejayoz 6y ago
When I last got my Australian passport renewed, the guy in front of me had his photo rejected because it had been edited. They had some sort of automated analysis that I presume worked off spotting weird JPEG aliasing. If there are signs it's edited, they'll tell you to come back with a different photo. (In this case, there was a photo shop a block away they had an arrangement with.)
- Zenbit_UX 6y ago
  Presumably that would only work if you hand over the digital photo. Converting it to analog (printing it) would lose all this data. You could then also rescan from the analog and receive a clear jpeg that should pass most tests depending on how good your scan was.
  - plantain 6y ago
    You submit physical photos, which Australia is insanely picky over. My most recent renewal took me three tries across three separate camera stores before I found pictures they were happy with. The review process seems to be manual as far as I could tell, or at least it took O(days) each time for the results to come back.
  - ceejayoz 6y ago
    These were analog photos. The scan came up on the screen and highlighted edges where the photo had been tweaked.
LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
The camera would rather preflash a little bit to narrow your pupils, and then take the picture an instant after that preflash.

ceejayoz 6y ago

When I last got my Australian passport renewed, the guy in front of me had his photo rejected because it had been edited. They had some sort of automated analysis that I presume worked off spotting weird JPEG aliasing. If there are signs it's edited, they'll tell you to come back with a different photo. (In this case, there was a photo shop a block away they had an arrangement with.)

Zenbit_UX 6y ago
Presumably that would only work if you hand over the digital photo. Converting it to analog (printing it) would lose all this data. You could then also rescan from the analog and receive a clear jpeg that should pass most tests depending on how good your scan was.
- plantain 6y ago
  You submit physical photos, which Australia is insanely picky over. My most recent renewal took me three tries across three separate camera stores before I found pictures they were happy with. The review process seems to be manual as far as I could tell, or at least it took O(days) each time for the results to come back.
- ceejayoz 6y ago
  These were analog photos. The scan came up on the screen and highlighted edges where the photo had been tweaked.

LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago

The camera would rather preflash a little bit to narrow your pupils, and then take the picture an instant after that preflash.