1. A digital image acquisition device comprising a lens, an image sensor, a processor and a computer readable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for programming the processor to correct a digital image, wherein the device is configured to: acquire a digital image; identify a candidate eye defect region in said image, including a region of high intensity pixels having a threshold intensity value within a sub-region comprising a pupil region of the image; identify an iris region around said pupil region including a chrominance value; analyze an eye-related characteristic of the sub-region that comprises a region of high intensity pixels; identify said sub-region as a flash artifact region based on said analyzing of said eye-related characteristic; apply flash artifact correction to said flash artifact region; and determine and correct the chrominance value of the iris region.