color correction

[PATRICIA...@adobeforums.com]

I would like to have help in restoring the color in this photo.I'm using cs3. I've tried different things but dont like the results.Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you
<http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=15LCnqqHzuk2qttZqNHKlNWhPPud4>

[Robert_...@adobeforums.com]

I would start by going in to Image > Adjustments > Shadows and Highlights. I
would click on the show more options check box. I would then dial down the
Shadows sliders to 0 and set the highlights sliders to something like 30, 50
and 30. I would then do an auto color and then Edit > Fade and reduce the
auto color by 50%. Finally I would go in to hue/Saturation under Image >
Adjustments and up the master saturation to +20 and up the red saturation by
+10. This will over saturate the basket ball in the image so I would then
take the sponge tool set to desaturate and an amount of 50% and a small
brush and reduce the saturation of the ball down until it looks more
natural. Finally I would duplicat the image layer and change the one on top
to multiply mode and opacity of 25%.

A lot of this you can do with adjustment layers if you wanted. But the above
would be my quick and dirty method. Your milage and taste may very.

Robert

[norman_...@adobeforums.com]

Now, I don't know what you have already tried, and I certainly do not know what the colours in your image should be like, but I do know that the major problem is a very strong cyan cast present.
Photoshop has a one click wonder that will cure that problem, and as is so often the case with PS, it is achieved by using the " wrong" tool.

Open your image, go image>adjustments>match colour.

Do not play with the colours...........simply put a check in the "neutralize" box.........that may be all you need to do.

[Rob_K...@adobeforums.com]

Patricia,

Start with adding some green.

Rob

[J_Ma...@adobeforums.com]

<http://www.eddietapp.com/PDFs/ccmethod_cs.pdf>

[John_R_...@adobeforums.com]

My $0.02:

Yes there's a Cyan cast, but therer's also a Blue cast.

Add a Levels Adjustment Layer. In the Adjustment dialog, go to the Red channel, and drag the middle slider slightly to the left. Go to the Blue channel, and drag the middle slider a little further to the right.

[Bill...@adobeforums.com]

Scan it with VueScan and use the restoration filter check boxes for a starting point?

That is what I do as I bring the old scanned pictures/negatives/slides into the computer.

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Bill, who has no connection with the company, any software store, etc. unless it is hidden in my 4 something or other "retirement" thing.

[PATRICIA...@adobeforums.com]

Robert thank you so much for taking the time to explain this to me.I did what u said and it was much much better.I'm using this photo to learn with as well as trying to satisfy customer. Thanks again
I will use this in the future!

[PATRICIA...@adobeforums.com]

Norman, that is a quick fix. I had never used that tool before. Thank you so much for that info.

[PATRICIA...@adobeforums.com]

J Maloney, Thank you for that tutorial on corecting color.I havent had time to go over it yet but i will. It looks like great info. Thanks you so much

[PATRICIA...@adobeforums.com]

John your 2cents worth means a lot to me.I'm playing around with your info at this time and it is working for this photo. Thanks for your time.I cant work on this as often as i like but this forum has helped me so much.

[pfigen]

The Highlight/Shadow recommendation is a great start, but I would not avoid the shadow part of it. There is some exploitable shadow detail there to help the contrast. Make sure you dial the Color Correction aspect down, as the +20 default adds too much saturation.

After that use Curves to set reasonable values for known highlight, shadow and midtone points. This image has all three. The image will start coming into line very quickly. This is color correction 101 really.

To take it step further, convert a copy to Lab and do a Curves "a" and "b" channel move to get the fleshtones nice and rich, and while your at it, you might take advantage of Lab's steeper gamma curve to pull a tad more shadow detail with H/S.

Convert back to RGB, drag on top of your original corrected RGB and decide how much of the Lab correction to blend in.

[Terri_...@adobeforums.com]

Since you have CS3, have you thought about opening it in Camera Raw?