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 07/15/2005 05:03:50 PM · #1
Gotta great shot of my kid on the beach:



But his face looks too orange to me:



I can't figure out how to make it look normal...
 07/15/2005 05:10:14 PM · #2
From the showdows it looks like it was taken late in the day. Is that correct? Did you white balance for the warm color temp?
 07/15/2005 05:21:09 PM · #3
Originally posted by gwphoto:
From the showdows it looks like it was taken late in the day. Is that correct? Did you white balance for the warm color temp?


It was on Auto W/B and unfortunately shot in jpeg cause I have limited storage...
 07/15/2005 05:24:55 PM · #4
How's this?



Corrected with curves, details on image. I tried to maintain the late-day ambiance, while removing the orange cast.

Message edited by author 2005-07-15 17:35:33.
 07/15/2005 05:27:12 PM · #5
Had a quick go...


Or... just convert it into B&W! :-D


If you have any questions, ask away!

Lee
 07/15/2005 05:29:13 PM · #6
In "Hue/Saturation" choose "yellow" and then move the saturation slider to about -60 or so.
 07/15/2005 05:29:23 PM · #7


Auto color in PS CS2, then desaturated the reds and the yellows 10 pts each. :)

edit: you don't want to get rid of all the lovely sunset glow, IMHO, because that makes the image more appealing (for me anyway).

Message edited by author 2005-07-15 17:30:19.
 07/15/2005 05:29:33 PM · #8
Here's my attempt. I followed the procedures in the DPC tutorial "How to remove a color cast from an image", although the white point didn't work well; I had to go with black & gray points only:

07/15/2005 05:31:13 PM · #9
Kirbic - yours is looking the most impressive to me. Mind sharing how you did it?
 07/15/2005 05:33:35 PM · #10
Originally posted by Bebe:
Kirbic - yours is looking the most impressive to me. Mind sharing how you did it?


Exact details are on the photo... I put the numbers in for the curves adjustment, you should be able to duplicate it exactly.
 07/15/2005 05:54:23 PM · #11
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by Bebe:
Kirbic - yours is looking the most impressive to me. Mind sharing how you did it?


Exact details are on the photo... I put the numbers in for the curves adjustment, you should be able to duplicate it exactly.


What do you mean by bring in black point?

Edit to add: Great job by the way!!! Thank you.

Message edited by author 2005-07-15 17:57:06.
 07/15/2005 05:55:41 PM · #12
Laurie, yours looks good to, but I ain't got CS so I gotta do it manually...
 07/15/2005 07:26:18 PM · #13
Adding a slight touch of green while reducing red a bit, will many times bring an overly warm skintone closer to normal.
 07/15/2005 07:47:07 PM · #14
Originally posted by TooCool:
What do you mean by bring in black point?...


TC, the first control point listed under curves, input=17, output=0, moves the bottom end of the curve to the right, which moves the histogram to the left. Deepens the darkest tones toward true black. In this case I stopped short of introducing any true blacks, that would have been too dark.
 07/15/2005 08:04:39 PM · #15
How's this?

(edit) as per enticing, I reduced red and added a touch of green then decreased entire image temperature.

Message edited by author 2005-07-15 20:07:13.
 07/15/2005 09:29:59 PM · #16
I use photoimpact, I don't know what PS calls the operations. First, I used a color cast on the bit of shell behind your son's back (or whatever that white dot is.) Then I used the tone map to adjust the green channel down (in a linear manner, from 255 to 215).

This gave your son a sunburned look, but the sand and sea look ok. (Was he sunburned?)

Then I put his face onto a seperate layer, and used tone map to reduce the green (linear, 255 to 230) and red (linear, 254-231) channels.

If anyone can give me a clue as to how to post a photo here, I'll put the result up.
 07/15/2005 10:25:46 PM · #17
Selective Color adjustment layer, working with the neutral range, usually works better to correct color throws like this than does hue/saturation. Give it a try.

Robt.
 07/15/2005 11:34:49 PM · #18
Maybe he's just been eating a lot of carrots lately? ;P
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