Lightroom's Open Eyes Feature: What It Actually Does, What It Costs, and Whether to Trust It

Lightroom's Open Eyes Feature: What It Actually Does, What It Costs, and Whether to Trust It

There is a specific kind of frustration that comes with delivering a final gallery and realizing, two days after the client has approved everything, that the hero shot has a blink in it. Not a soft blink, not a partial squint you can handwave away, but a full closed-eye moment from the subject right at the peak expression. In commercial work, that shot is often unusable, and you either reshoot or lose it.