match the colour scheme of one image to another

[frankg]

how to...........

[Gadgets]

CS has colour matching, but I haven't used it... if .gif for web use, you
could always get the images close, then Save for Web using the same colour
palette, or use Image Ready and specify the palette beforehand...

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[Mike Russell]

frankg wrote:
> how to...........

Is this for catalog matching? If you're using windows you might want to
check out the "Pin to Original" command in Curvemeister. There is a demo of
flesh tone color pinning at the Curvemeister site:
http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/PinningFleshTones/index.htm

and a video:
http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/Video/Using_Pinning_for_Skin_Tones.avi

In your case you would want to save the sample points to a file (or to the
image if you are matching layers) and load them into the file whose colors
you want to change.

If you email me a pair of sample images I will consider writing a tutorial
based on them.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

[frankg]

Actually it's the exact same shot (still life), just a slight variation with
a prop added. I edited the first frame some time ago and now I'm having some
difficulty matching the col on the next frame, it's subtle - cant remember
what I originally did with curves, hue/saturation, col balance. I will just
keep pluggin' away trying to eyeball it. Thought there may be an easy way,
and not sure it's an interesting enough project for you to warrent your
offer of a tutorial

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[frankg]

I should have added that I tried Image>adjust>col match but couldnt get it
right - maybe I'm missing something simple here - gotta get back to the Help
files

[Mike Russell]

frankg wrote:
> Actually it's the exact same shot (still life), just a slight
> variation with a prop added. I edited the first frame some time ago
> and now I'm having some difficulty matching the col on the next
> frame, it's subtle - cant remember what I originally did with curves,
> hue/saturation, col balance. I will just keep pluggin' away trying to
> eyeball it. Thought there may be an easy way, and not sure it's an
> interesting enough project for you to warrent your offer of a tutorial

If you fiind yourself spinning your wheels, check out the tutorial on curve
extraction.
http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/CurveExtraction/index.html

The tutorial shows how to generate a curve from two otherwise identical
images taken with different color balance settings. I think the process
would be identical for your images. Using this procedure, you can create a
curve that you can then apply to the image you want to modify. You can use
the Curvemeister demo to create and save the curve file, then apply it using
photoshop.

[frankg]

I will try this when I'm not so sleepy - isnt it very very similar to what
image"adjust>col match - does if you use the entire image of the source file
and apply it to the target?

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[Mike Russell]

I don't know how CS's color match function works, and it's certainly worth a
try in this case. With Curvemeister it would probably be more of a manual
process. You'll get an exact match of the colors you specify manually, and
you may choose which color space to do the matching. More than likely RGB
is the space you want, if that matches your original image, but if you did a
hue change, you may get a getter result by selecting HSB as your color
space.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

[frankg]

I will work on the images.
Thanks for your help.
At first glance, the 'col match' appeared like an automated version of your
method, which appears to have more 'manual controls'.

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