Removing “red-eyes” from family and people photos is one of the most common task every photographer must cope. Not surprisingly, there are plenty of red eye removal solutions for all budgets.
On the Net several tutorials are available to explain how to do that with all the most popular softwares:

• Adobe Lightroom
• Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
• Paint Shop Pro

There are also plenty of inexpensive way to perform this simple operation you might consider. Let’s go through the 3 most popular solutions.

Picasa is a free photo organizer developed by Google. While its primary purpose isn’t photo-manipulation, it is perfect for small and simple photo-editing… and red eye removal, of course! Download it here

Paint.net is a (Windows only, unfortunately) tool, very intuitive and easy to learn. Plenty of tutorials are available online to learn how to use it proficiently. Download Paint.net here

Last but not least, the glorious Gimp is still the first and the only professional free (and open source) photo editing software. Sure, it is sometimes harder to use than its commercial counterpart, but it’s a feature-packed and performant tool. Check this tutorial to learn how to perform red eye reduction, and download Gimp from this page.