Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

i have photoshop cs6.
This photo is not the correct color. What can I do in Photoshop to correct this?
Thank you in advance for your advice and comments.
Jules

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gmcase Loc: Galt's Gulch

A quick way would be to use a curves adjustment layer. Choose blue in the pull down then pull the middle down to add yellow which will remove the strong blue cast. Adjust down until blue cast is neutralized. (Yellow is the opposite of blue). If you move the middle up it will add blue.

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Thank you, I will try this.

Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

Here are some setting you can try using camera raw filter in Photoshop or in Lightroom main develop screen.

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jcdonelson

This is my take, and I have up loaded the XMP file to you can see exactly what I did in ACR. Look under the brush tool as well, as I felt the back ground was too busy and distracting from the subject. You could refine the brushing a bit.

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Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Thanks nice job.

papa Loc: Rio Dell, CA

You need to NEVER shoot AWB. Any other appropriate WB, but never in AWB. I tried, but the color still leaves a lot to be desired.

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jcdonelson

Thats interesting. How should we set WB?

bigwolf40 Loc: Effort, Pa.

This is quick try in PSE 14....Rich

PP in PSE 14

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AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I'm the least capable of doing this, but if it were mine, I'd start with the WB settings in LR or ACR. Did you shoot RAW? I haven't tried the trick suggested by gmcase, but I'm anxious to do so. I usually get too much yellow. Sometimes I go to the individual colour adjustments and simply play with the sliders there.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Sorry Rich, but your try isn't that good. See all the blue color cast on all the white parts of the girls outfits? Very over saturated too. This may be to your taste, but it's not likely to be to most other peoples tastes.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Go to B&H or Adorama web site and search for “white balance tools.” At least get a gray card, or a One Shot Digital Calibration Target. Custom white balance neutralizes color casts in JPEGs processed by the camera. If you save raw files, photograph the target, so you can get proper neutrals in Lightroom or other post-processing software, by using the click balance tool.

SalvageDiver Loc: Huntington Beach CA

Hi Jules,

You can always uses curves or other color correction methods to manually adjust your color balance. However here are a few quick methods for auto white balancing your images in photoshop. There may be many other mthods, but this is how I do it when not doing white balance manually.

The first image is your original image.

The second image used the auto feature in ACR. I selected "Auto" instead of the default "As Shot" in the White Balance adjustment. I also reduced the exposure slightly since some of the whites were blown out.

The third image uses an inversion method. Copy the image to a new layer. Invert the image and blur the image using the average blur. This is basically the color that's missing from your image that gives the total image a neutral (gray) cast. Select the blend mode for this layer to "overlay" or "soft light" to remove the color cast. For this image, I used "overlay".

The fourth image uses the gray eye dropper in curves adjustment window. Create a new 50% gray fill layer above your image and select the difference blend mode. Find a black area on the image. Anywhere where the colors are the same (i.e. no difference between layers), the image will be black. Turn off the gray fill layer. Using the gray eyedropper from the curves adjustment window, select the gray area (black when the fill layer is on). Note: you can use the white and black eyedroppers to set your white and black points, but not necessary for white balance. With the gray eyedropper, I selected the center of the gray [trash can?] directly behind the girls.

It may sound complicated, but its really not. When you do it once, it's easy after that.

Here are examples of each method.

Hope this helps.
Mike

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Curves (50% gray)

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jcdonelson

Or, just yank the temp and tint controls around till it looks right. That's all we did.
The problem with WB is as the subtitles of the lighting changes so does it.
I have all sort of WB gadgets, but in the end I just leave in AWB and tweak it later.
In reality often we don't want the true WB of the scene 'cause we don't like it.
A helpful tip for Jules ( who is a pro sports photog):
On a given shoot you probably find the same issue with several shots (as in this case). Fix it on the first one and save it as a LR preset, then you can just apply it to all of them.

jcdonelson

Thanks, great info.
Nice! Very Nice.