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04/15/2009 09:28:47 AM · #1 |
Does anybody have any good tutorial links out there to better utilize these tools?
I feel like sometimes I get color casts that I want to slightly adjust, but I can't imagine the right colors to adjust to. Experimenting sometimes works, but I usually make it worse, and I'd like to have a better, more direct approach to my color. |
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04/15/2009 09:35:42 AM · #2 |
| I don't have any links offhand, but are you shooting in RAW or JPEG? I find my color balance is much more effectively adjusted in RAW. I will try a couple of presets, sometimes click white balance, and if none of those look right, then I use the color temperature slider in my RAW converter. For some pics, a very minor change makes a huge perceptible difference. |
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04/15/2009 04:49:08 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
I don't have any links offhand, but are you shooting in RAW or JPEG? I find my color balance is much more effectively adjusted in RAW. I will try a couple of presets, sometimes click white balance, and if none of those look right, then I use the color temperature slider in my RAW converter. For some pics, a very minor change makes a huge perceptible difference. |
I definitely shoot RAW, and that can help. But I also use point and shoot cameras with my students quite a bit. They can look pretty ugly sometimes, and color is a big issue. |
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04/15/2009 05:01:56 PM · #4 |
Selective Color is not very useful for what you're trying to fix. Personally, I don't like "color balance" at all. What I do, working on other peoples' images (where I don't have a RAW to tweak) is dupe the BG layer, then do an autolevel. Usually the autolevel helps a lot on images where color balance is way off. Then I dupe the autoleveled layer and do "match color" on that, checking the "neutralize" option. This will usually bring me into the ballpark in two quick and easy steps.
Now I can merge those two layers into one, and set the merged layer in "color" mode, and everything about the original will be unchanged except the color. Of course, if the autoleveled version is closer, in luminance values, to where I want to go, then I just keep it that way and tweak from there.
Also useful is if you have a similar scene on the pooter where the colors are what you want; then you open the problem image and the good image, and use "match color" to match them up, specifying the second as the source image for the first. This doesn't always work as planned, but a lot fo times it does. It's a really good way to duplicate someone else's toning during B/W conversion, btw.
R.
Message edited by author 2009-04-15 17:02:26.
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