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Hi, I’m not a photographer, but I work for the biggest regional newspaper in the UK as an Editorial Technician. In a word, our photographers are pants. Most of my time is taken up by colour correcting photographs taken by amateur photographers, although they earn more than me!!!
Fluorescant lighting casts (you know, then greeny-yellow ones or bright orange ones that make the photo’s look so ugly) are a constant bother. It’s taken me a while to find out a half decent way to remove these. I usually sample the cast, invert the colour, and lay it over in ‘color’ mode at about 50% opacity. Then I play with it in curves and selectives to make it (sort of) satisfactory.
This method usually produces, fair results, unless there are people in the shot (which there usually are) and their skintones are near enough impossible to correct. It usually takes me ages to achieve viable results.
I have two questions… Firstly, is there anything I can mention to these bozo’s on how to eliminate these casts in the first place? They’re using quite expensive digital camera’s…
Secondly, are there any better ways of removing these ugly casts? I’m using photoshop 4.0, although, I’m pretty good on CS, but only one machine has it. The photofilter adjustment doesn’t really do that much of a good job on CS.
Come on guys, you’re the experts, any tips?
Cheers
Nathan Docwra
Fluorescant lighting casts (you know, then greeny-yellow ones or bright orange ones that make the photo’s look so ugly) are a constant bother. It’s taken me a while to find out a half decent way to remove these. I usually sample the cast, invert the colour, and lay it over in ‘color’ mode at about 50% opacity. Then I play with it in curves and selectives to make it (sort of) satisfactory.
This method usually produces, fair results, unless there are people in the shot (which there usually are) and their skintones are near enough impossible to correct. It usually takes me ages to achieve viable results.
I have two questions… Firstly, is there anything I can mention to these bozo’s on how to eliminate these casts in the first place? They’re using quite expensive digital camera’s…
Secondly, are there any better ways of removing these ugly casts? I’m using photoshop 4.0, although, I’m pretty good on CS, but only one machine has it. The photofilter adjustment doesn’t really do that much of a good job on CS.
Come on guys, you’re the experts, any tips?
Cheers
Nathan Docwra
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