Removing yellow-eye, am struggling here

[Red Wheel Barrow]

Hey folks! Long time fan and user of Pixelmator, first time poster.

I have a family picture I need to fix for an upcoming funeral. It suffers from "yellow-eye" big time. Red-eye removal in other apps failed me.
Based on a previous thread found here, I tried Pixelmator Pro's Darken and Desaturate tool, but have not seen how they could help in a few tries.

Here are two (very zoomed to protect the innocent) examples:




Thanks for any tips!

[Red Wheel Barrow]

Bump? Is it because of the horrible looking example pics? I don't want to post a family picture of a dozen people without their consent.

[Andrius]

No, the example pics are absolutely fine, this is actually just a pretty difficult thing to do, either manually or automatically — I tried using a couple different methods, but nothing seemed to do the trick, I'm afraid. Basically, there's no detail at all left in the eye (even if it's made up of a couple of pixels), and you have to paint in the right pixels, almost. Maybe someone else has some experience with this?

[Red Wheel Barrow]

Thank you, I had assumed I was just doing it wrong as an inexperienced user. Oh well!