equalise colours across different pictures

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eli.court
Nov 7, 2004
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Hi,

I have a series of photos that I am interested in putting together as a photo essay. They’re all of the same type of image (the cliffs and beach and houses at aireys inlet), but due to different exposure times and angles etc the colours are all different.
Is there any way that i can get the colours to be the same across all the photos?
I tried to take the colour from one photo and put it into the other, but couldn’t work it out… and anyway, i really want the whole colour scheme in all the photos to be the same.

If anyone can help, please email me on or just
post a reply.
Thanks a lot,
Eli.
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Mike Russell
Nov 7, 2004
Eli wrote:
Hi,

I have a series of photos that I am interested in putting together as a photo essay. They’re all of the same type of image (the cliffs and beach and houses at aireys inlet), but due to different exposure times and angles etc the colours are all different.
Is there any way that i can get the colours to be the same across all the photos?
I tried to take the colour from one photo and put it into the other, but couldn’t work it out… and anyway, i really want the whole colour scheme in all the photos to be the same.

If anyone can help, please email me on or just
post a reply.

Use curves in RGB mode. On each image, set up to four sample points on the colors you want to match. Write the values down, pick one image to leave the same, and then use curves to make the colors match on the other three images. Note: pick colors that are not too close to one another on any of the RGB curves if possible, or you may get kinks in the curve when you apply these values to your other images. For the same reason, don’t pick too many colors – less is more in this case.

In Curvemeister the same result may be achieved using a process called "curve extraction", where you may save a set of sample points, together with their target colors, load them into another image, and generate a curve that maps selected colors of one image to another. I’ve written a tutorial on using curve extraction to create a curve to correct color temperature, using the same principle:
http://www.curvemeister.com/tutorials/CurveExtraction/index. html . —

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

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