Craig Meyer Loc: Sparks, NV

It is especially useful with group photos where the chances of a closed eyes person is the number of people in the group Factorial!--if anyone remembers how to do that. Beyond that the fast multiples gets the group past the wooden or frozen phony smiles and into more relaxed facial expressions. I tried the slower speed multiples and it worked, teh results weren't as pleasing. I can't 'splain why.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

What worked for me in the past:

When I am taking a photo of a group, particularly with flash, I set the camera to the highest frame rate it has and take a burst of 3 or 4 shots. The blinkers respond to the preflash and blink so the first shot shows you who the blinkers are. By the third or fourth shot the blinkers have recovered and have their eyes open and you have a good shot. HOWEVER, there are late blinkers, so occasionally you will get the fourth shot with the blinkers' eyes open and the late blinkers eyes closed. Since they're late blinkers their eyes are open on the first or second shot. In a case like that you have at least one frame for everyone with their eyes open although it's not always the same frame. For that case you use Photoshop (or GIMP, or some other software that can deal with pixel level editing). It's fairly easy to select an eye or two, using a bit of feathering, copy that eye and paste it into another frame. If the expression changes between shots you can select, copy and paste heads instead of just eyes.

The advantage of using a high frame rate is that the background will not change much, making cutting and pasting much easier. The disadvantage is that your flash has to fire several times, so you need to use a moderately high ISO so you don't deplete all the charge in the flash in one or two shots.

Occasionally you run across a photo that someone else took in which someone's eyes are closed. In that case you have to borrow an eye from someone else in the group. That takes a bit more consideration in the selection of which eye to use, since not everyone's eyes look the same so you have to pick a compatible one.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

I’ve never had “supper glue.” Is it a main dish or a side?


Sorry, couldn’t help myself.

folkus

You can also use breakfast or dinner glue as effectively...

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

The 2018 version of PSE (and later, I would think) will do that.
But check the Adobe website, I'm sure it will tell you about this feature.
https://www.dummies.com/photography/photo-software/adobe-photoshop-elements/open-closed-eyes-feature-photoshop-elements-2018/

sueyeisert Loc: New Jersey

I tell people to close their eyes then count to three and open their eyes then take the photo. Hope that technique helps.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

With tongue fully in cheek I have to ask, so it is best to wait until after lunch?

Dennis

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

I used to shoot a lot of weddings and some people have this thing that they cant help but blink when they think the shutter will be pressed. So don't tell them on three. Do this, it almost always works. Tell every one to close their eyes, but first get them all in position and ready. Then tell them you will be taking the photo on the count of three. Then tell them to close their eyes on one, open them on two and be ready for the photo on three. What you do is count one for the close and as you count two, they will open their eyes, then immediately take the photo after you count two and then count three.

You'll found that most if not all have their eyes open on two but if you took it on three you would find some have already closed their eyes again.

don26812 Loc: South Bay of Los Angeles, CA

I suspect most consumer photo editors include that capability. For many years now Adobe's Photoshop Elements has included it. It was improved a bit ago, and now works even better. The Auto mode almost always gets the job done. You do not even have to select the eyes.

Of course, a normal price of about $80 is a lot to pay for the ability to open eyes. But PSE 2020 contains lot more magic.

jeffhacker Loc: Dallas, Texas

I've used it in Elements. Apparently it has an algorythm, and offers several choices. Not perfect (I've taken pictures of people with brown eyes and the program gave them blue ones), but generally not bad, and it beats a ruined shot where the subject's eyes are closed (particularly in vacation type photos).

DVZ Loc: Littleton CO

I had one friend who complained about her eyes always being closed when camera flash is used. I had read just before about some people being very sensitive to the pre-flash which triggers an auto response of closing their eyes. We tested it out on her and the pre-flash did it every time so I went to manual flash so there was no pre-flash. In this case it solved the problem.

foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC

give them a double dose of methamphetamines LOL

DebAnn Loc: Toronto

I can think of two or three occasions when I swapped heads because two different shots has someone (not the same person) with their eyes closed. So I learned that I should always take several shots when shooting people.

FredCM Loc: Central Illinois

Yes this and have them blink before you press the shutter button. I tell them I'm going to yell BLINK and they should do that and then I'll snap the picture.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Whenever we take a family group picture my wife insists on about a dozen shots. This is because thst even among the ‘all eyes open’ shots there is sonething else wrong, like one person with a smirk.