match the colour scheme of one image to another

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Oct 10, 2004
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how to………..

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Gadgets
Oct 10, 2004
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
Oct 10, 2004
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/inde x.htm

and a video:
http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/Video/Using_Pinning_fo r_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.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net
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Frank
Oct 11, 2004
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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"Mike Russell" wrote in message
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/inde x.htm
and a video:
http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/Video/Using_Pinning_fo r_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.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

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frankg
Oct 11, 2004
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

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


xx
"Mike Russell" wrote in message
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/inde x.htm
and a video:
http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/Video/Using_Pinning_fo r_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.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

MR
Mike Russell
Oct 11, 2004
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.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net
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frankg
Oct 11, 2004
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?

"Mike Russell" wrote in message
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.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

MR
Mike Russell
Oct 11, 2004
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.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

frankg wrote:
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?

"Mike Russell" wrote in message
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. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net
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Frank
Oct 11, 2004
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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"Mike Russell" wrote in message
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.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

frankg wrote:
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?

"Mike Russell" wrote in message
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. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

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