It would be an obscene amount of work in Vegas.

1. You could import the image into vegas at a high resolution
2. Set the project to a high resolution (say 2000 x 2000 pixels - I think that's the max).
3. Use the masking option and circle the pupils of the eyes in the photo.
4. Set the masking select to crop out what's inside the picture. - (You will have to put a black track underneath the picture track if you have other things on tracks below that picture at the same time as you're showing that picture)
5. Then expand the display window so that you can save a frame at high reslolution (assuming that you need to be showing full res to capture a screen grab at full res).
6. Then make sure the setting is set to Best/Full
7. Then Save the image.
8. Then use that saved image later on (resolution is dependant on what you can display, so you may not be able to save a 2,048x2,048 image if you cant get that to show in your preview window.

You only have to do all the image saving etc... if you want to be able to move and animate the image easily later on
if all you want to do is make a slide show of static images, you wouldn't have to do more than steps 2 and 3.

It's a little tedious, but it'll do the job.

The reason you don't have to replace the center with anything is that the area of the eye that gives us red is the pupil. and that is supposed to be black anyway. it's light bouncing back off the back of our eye and coming back out our pupil.

Maybe not so much an OBSCENE amount of work. - But vegas isn't made for that kind of work so much so, so it's not going to be as easy a workflow as using something that is made for that.

BTW, you may be able to find a free software that will remove red-eye for you online. Have you tried a google search?

Dave

You got my curiosity up, so I just tried this in Vegas. There are several methods I come up with, I'm sure there are more.
1. Using pan/Crop, zoom in deep on the image so that the red part of the eye is easily identifiable.
2. Use the secondary color corrector to select/ replace color
3. Unzoom the pan/crop and check your work.

Another method would be to make a clone of the track/duplicate, and use generated media behind that specific red, using a Bezier mask to cut out the red, again using pan/crop to zap it.

Another method would is to create a grey mask, cut out in Bezier mask, and put it over the eye, reducing opacity til it blends. This is sorta how Vegas Movie Studio does it, and does it very well.

I also tried a couple Photoshop tutorials on the subject, and the techniques describe in those (found em' on the web) worked in Vegas as well, substituing various compositing modes.

As Patrick indicated, there isn't a batch method of doing this, Pshop or other graphic editor with batch processing would work fastest, IMO. Vegas Movie Studio does have a red-eye remover, kinda cool.

ooooo, looks like I beat you to it spot. ;-)

I would think that the coco method (color corrector) would be kinda dagnerous way to do it, if there are other reds in the picture. - is there a way to easily specify a specific region of the picture to recieve the color correction without using the mask tool to to just overlay a section of the image and change it with a feathered edge to soften the difference (as shown in your tutorial for correcting a spot of dark on your video)?

Dave