1. A digital camera comprising a processor and a computer readable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for programming the processors to perform a method of digital image artifact correction, the method comprising: acquiring a digital image; identifying a candidate red-eye defect region in said image; identifying a region of high intensity pixels having at least a threshold intensity value within a sub-region of the image that also includes the candidate red-eye region; analyzing an eye-related characteristic of the sub-region that comprises a combined hybrid region including said candidate red-eye region and said region of high intensity pixels; and identifying said combined hybrid region as a flash artifact region based on said analyzing of said eye-related characteristic; and applying flash artifact correction to said flash artifact region.