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03/25/2004 02:16:03 PM · #1
Originally posted by nshapiro:

Great job Shannon! While you were in there, you might have gaussian blurred the background too ;)


Thanks for the compliment. I agree with the blurring (I would desaturate the area between their chins, too.) I was just trying to give him a general process that might rescue a number of photos. I figured any remaining details should be handled on a per-photo basis and best left up to his personal preference.
03/25/2004 01:56:03 PM · #2
Great job Shannon! While you were in there, you might have gaussian blurred the background too ;)
03/25/2004 01:45:30 PM · #3
Don't give up hope on seemingly lost photos. Isaac sent me the original and I gave it a little more effort to come up with this fairly usable image.



I took notes and he says that he's applied the procedure to others in the set with pretty good results.
03/25/2004 01:22:24 PM · #4


It's a bit too blue, but it was a hasty attempt.
03/25/2004 12:24:11 PM · #5
Originally posted by crabappl3:



Now since I was working with a very small image, the quality isn't the best, but here's my take on it. I used a plug-in for photoshop called PhotoWiz Color Washer. It does a pretty good job of taking tints out of an image. I then did some tweaking in hue/saturation.


This is a fine job!
03/25/2004 12:23:07 PM · #6
Good to see you around Froober. Miss you!
03/25/2004 11:58:53 AM · #7
This month's PEI mag mentions a color correction/aged photo rescue plugin call DIGITAL ROC PRO. I downloaded the free trial and tried it out on this image. It improved the photo greatly with just one click (seemed to need a little more tweaking but that could be due to the small image file). You can download a free trial at www.asf.com It's $99 to register it if you like it. There is a non-pro version available too for $49...not sure on the differences.
03/19/2004 11:50:07 AM · #8
Hi all, here's my 2 cents. Since we had a small jpeg to work with, the image is softer than it would be with the original but I like this one.
Wedding Photo

I know you are disappointed but there are some great tools out there to fix the problem. At least you have photos! I was made of honor at my friends wedding and after packing up all the gear in the car, the photographer was robbed of all the equipment and the film. It could be a lot worse. :)
03/19/2004 10:21:30 AM · #9
Here's a chapter from a book on how to deal with colour casts.
03/18/2004 10:00:02 AM · #10
I also think converting to B&W is the only real way to salvage them. This is a good testemonial to shooting in RAW mode. When your white balance if off, all you have to do is change the white balance in post processing and yo get a perfect result...as if that's how you shot it. It takes up more space on your cards, but worth the price of extra memory.
03/18/2004 09:49:56 AM · #11
That one is a bit easier to fix as the colours aren't so badly squashed and there are some obvious grey sample points.


Was from a one click fix in levels, using the grey point sampler.
03/18/2004 09:45:09 AM · #12
Originally posted by chiqui74:

I had a similar thing happen to me, except that I can go and retake the pictures whenever i want to. I had been shooting under tungsteen lights so I set my white balance accordingly, but of course I forgot to set it back to auto. I went out to the Amalfi Coast and was wondering why some of the pictures had that blue hue. Then more than halfway through the day I realized what was going on, so I was left with about 100 beautiful pictues....in blue.


June,

Your shots are a little easier to fix since there's more data in each channel to work with. I poked around in Photoshop for a few minutes and got this:
03/18/2004 09:14:26 AM · #13
I had a similar thing happen to me, except that I can go and retake the pictures whenever i want to. I had been shooting under tungsteen lights so I set my white balance accordingly, but of course I forgot to set it back to auto. I went out to the Amalfi Coast and was wondering why some of the pictures had that blue hue. Then more than halfway through the day I realized what was going on, so I was left with about 100 beautiful pictues....in blue. Here's one example and all I could do to fix it.

June

Original

"fixed"

It's still not perfect, far from it, but it is the best I could do.
03/18/2004 09:12:29 AM · #14
hi guys - new to the forums :) guy i know over on 2CPU sent me this way :)

here's my little 6 minute attempt :)

03/18/2004 08:52:56 AM · #15
Originally posted by Lamb_UWG:


My sister's wedding photos turned out really bad. I have 300 hundred images like this that I took. I need help to figure out how to correct the color of these images. I realize now that I needed to change the white balance on the camera but I can't fix it now. I have photoshop 7.0 and will be willing to buy any program that has a chance of fixing this. Any help would be great.


Lamb,

Lots of good suggestions here. Obviously it is possible to save them.

Scalvert, grigrigirl, and Crabappl3 have my vote. I believe a combination of these styles in an album, would make your sister very happy.
03/18/2004 08:37:44 AM · #16
What white balance preset did you use, and what kind of lighting was on this shot? (the original)
03/18/2004 08:05:01 AM · #17
Originally posted by grigrigirl:



03/18/2004 08:03:07 AM · #18


Message edited by author 2004-03-18 08:04:13.
03/17/2004 11:42:35 PM · #19
Hi, this is my try on Adobe element 2.0 and Neat Image

03/17/2004 10:49:48 PM · #20
This is the result of a single click using the colour cast removal features of the level command.



It isn't perfect, and could be done more effectively if you have any samples that have a mid-grey item in them to use as a reference. Once you've got that done properly, you can pretty much automatically recover any and all that were shot in the same light.

If you want more info read the Photoshop help on fixing colour casts, but the process is basically what I described above.

B&W is certainly also a more promising solution, as the image is always going to suffer from the amount of colour adjustment that is required to bring something so badly damaged back.
03/17/2004 10:47:35 PM · #21


Now since I was working with a very small image, the quality isn't the best, but here's my take on it. I used a plug-in for photoshop called PhotoWiz Color Washer. It does a pretty good job of taking tints out of an image. I then did some tweaking in hue/saturation.
03/17/2004 10:05:47 PM · #22
Originally posted by bjc0001:

I like this one the best so far...

Originally posted by KevinRiggs:

This is pretty washed out and has more of a red overtone but with larger originals you might have some more data that could be salvaged. This took a few layers with levels, curves, hue/saturation and color balance.


If this is a typical example of the photos I WOULD invest in a pad/stylus, find Gordon's thread on creating masks from channels, and blur/fade/lose the backgrounds. With practice, it should take no more than 10-20 minutes/photo, and will let you adjust for the people and not have to consider the background. I am assuming that you'd be doing this for the best 10-20 shots or so ... if you want to do all 300 you'd probably have to invest in one of the software packages designed for creating masks.

Now that I've said this, I guess I should download that one and try it myself ....
03/17/2004 09:01:44 PM · #23
I like this one the best so far...

Originally posted by KevinRiggs:

This is pretty washed out and has more of a red overtone but with larger originals you might have some more data that could be salvaged. This took a few layers with levels, curves, hue/saturation and color balance.

03/17/2004 07:40:46 PM · #24
PS, watch for things growing out of the bride and groom's heads :-)

T
03/17/2004 07:38:30 PM · #25
I would not recommend batch processing these photos or any other wedding photos. These kinds of photos require individual care. Save the batch processing for snapshots. What you can do, however, is create an action that you apply to each photo then you can tweak each photo a little more separately. As you have already witnessed here there are many ways to do this and there has already been some great advice. Here is another method that worked well for me on your photo. First, remove as much noise as you can from the original image by using either Noise Ninja or Neat Image or similar program. I used Levels and used the eye droppers. With the white eyedopper select a part of the white dress for a white point and then use the black eyedropper in the shadows of the grooms jacket to get the black point. This makes a difference but were not done yet. Go into Image>Adjustments>Variations and here you can work to remove the yellow colorcast by emphasizing the blue tones. If you haven't used Variations before you will want to experiment or read up on it. I find this to be very useful but hardly ever talked about. Curves can do this as well and may even be more powerful but it doesn't provide before and after comparisons. One of the other nice things about Variations is that it will remember your last settings when you go to use it again. You clear these settings by clicking inside of the original image. I also boosted the mid tones slightly. If you like these results you can always recreate these steps as an action and apply the action to all of the other similar photos. Good luck, I hope this helps.

T
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