Picture taking problem only serious answers please?

Question:

Picture taking problem only serious answers please?

I have A Kodak Easy Share z650 and another smaller one and this one has several settings of flash but when i take photos of people i almost always come up with red eye and i hate that, how exactly step by step do i handle that. Now i can fix some of it on my computer but how do i prevent that red eye in the first place?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The only way to completely avoid red eye is using a camera with a flash that can be held away from the camera. No point-n-shoot, flash-above-the-lens camera can take consistently good flash photos without red eye.
Red eye is caused by the light from the flash bouncing of the eye's retina which is blood red. That's what the camera is seeing.
With a flash (connected to the camera with a sync cord) held in your hand with your arm raised about 45 degrees to your body and the flash head aimed at the subject the flash doesn't enter the eye straight on. The flash held at an angle like this also creates shadows that "round" the face instead of the flat, washed out look of camera mounted flashes.
The other thing you can do with a more versatile flash head is bounce flash; literally bouncing the light off of an adjacent surface that reflects the light on the subject. This has the same results as above with even softer lighting.