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11/28/2006 11:25:04 AM · #1 |
how can i fix this photo? tell me some steps, please. I've tried all sorts of colour correction techniques but they still either come out yellow, washed out, or ashy and blue. i even used custom white balance when i took this and it still turned out quite yellow. can anyone help?
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11/28/2006 11:34:25 AM · #2 |
Lovely image, Twyla. It really doesn't need much. I adjusted levels to bring back some of the dark and lightest tones, used Adjust/Selective Color to choose White and brighten that a bit, added +15 contrast, sharpen and a touch of blur to soften the skin. A 5 minute fix, but as I said, it really doesn't need much. Again, Lovely.
Here's my version:
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11/28/2006 12:43:24 PM · #3 |
Hope you don't mind but i had a go.
Really nice picture to work with
Kev
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11/28/2006 12:45:58 PM · #4 |
my attempt. a bit softer and subdued
and it may be the easy way out of the color balance dillema but it looks real good in black and white
Message edited by author 2006-11-28 13:08:42. |
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11/28/2006 01:04:55 PM · #5 |
With more of a halo effect added: 
and a generally softer look/feel:  <---(my fav)
Both involved a basic white balance adjustment, then a little sharpening before the soft focus was applied, then history brushed lightly back (or eraser in the new layer via copy) some light touch up in the eyes, mostly levels, the upper right and upper left areas in background were first sponge tooled to remove any traces of color, then highlight dodged to fade. Some minor contrast and red saturation adjustments in the second one.
This was just too priceless of a shot to pass up!! |
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11/28/2006 01:09:03 PM · #6 |
| I like the original quite a bit as it is, it's not overdone, the eyes are beautiful and clear, and it looks good. Brad's second edit looks great. |
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11/28/2006 01:10:26 PM · #7 |
great job Brad! not that I'm surprised. lol. but I couldnt get it white like that to save my life. how did you do the color adjustment? "color balance?", "slective color?" they werent working for me.
VERY NICE! |
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11/28/2006 01:21:39 PM · #8 |
Here's my try at an edit!
BEFORE:
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AFTER:
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11/28/2006 01:24:57 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by jaded_youth:
great job Brad! not that I'm surprised. lol. but I couldnt get it white like that to save my life. how did you do the color adjustment? "color balance?", "slective color?" they werent working for me.
VERY NICE! |
Thanks!
What works most often for the white balance is to go to Image, Adjustments, Levels, and use the right eyedropper to find the whitest white, most often zooming in to 1200% when there's an area I suspect to have true white and click it, and do again as needed until it looks right. Well that's one way anyway... |
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11/28/2006 01:27:03 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by BradP:
Originally posted by jaded_youth:
great job Brad! not that I'm surprised. lol. but I couldnt get it white like that to save my life. how did you do the color adjustment? "color balance?", "slective color?" they werent working for me.
VERY NICE! |
Thanks!
What works most often for the white balance is to go to Image, Adjustments, Levels, and use the right eyedropper to find the whitest white, most often zooming in to 1200% when there's an area I suspect to have true white and click it, and do again as needed until it looks right. Well that's one way anyway... |
oh wow! I've never heard of that. can't wait to try it! |
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11/28/2006 01:39:32 PM · #11 |
Couldn't pass up a B&W version:
Nothing more than open, white balance adjustment using the eyedropper, b&w conversion, a little lightening of the irises, followed by a light manual sharpening of them, and a light highlight dodge in the two upper corners. |
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11/28/2006 01:59:10 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by jaded_youth:
Originally posted by BradP:
Originally posted by jaded_youth:
great job Brad! not that I'm surprised. lol. but I couldnt get it white like that to save my life. how did you do the color adjustment? "color balance?", "slective color?" they werent working for me.
VERY NICE! |
Thanks!
What works most often for the white balance is to go to Image, Adjustments, Levels, and use the right eyedropper to find the whitest white, most often zooming in to 1200% when there's an area I suspect to have true white and click it, and do again as needed until it looks right. Well that's one way anyway... |
oh wow! I've never heard of that. can't wait to try it! |
Covered in detail in Moodville's tutorial "How to Remove a Color Cast"
David
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11/28/2006 02:58:42 PM · #13 |
going to have to try it myself.
thanks everybody!! |
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11/28/2006 03:13:53 PM · #14 |
How's this? Autolevels corrected the color, made a gothic glow version which was lovely for the face but ran the BG to pure white. Selected the whites and cut them out of the GG layer and pasted them as a new layer, then set in soft light mode and adjusted opacity to merge the original BG with the white BG and salvage some gauzy detail.
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11/28/2006 03:33:43 PM · #15 |
 I used this technique to find the correct color correction. It is nice because it is systematic and has corrected almost all indoor color balnce problems that I have had. I only did this action and then a curve with a slight boost to lower range of midtones.
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11/28/2006 03:44:00 PM · #16 |
My shot at it ...
Bumped the contrast, desat the yellows, bump up the reds, dodge the eyes and sharpen tool on eyes, USM, despeckle, auto levels and there ya go.
Message edited by author 2006-11-28 15:46:26. |
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