Photo Correction

[kevinjmay]

Anyone have any good tutorials or tips for photo correction (such as color)

I have some photos that are very.. blue tinted, and I'm trying to reduce that to make the picture look a bit more real.

But if you have any correction tips/tutorials for other common things that need fixing, please post them here also!

[kevinjmay]

Heres an example of a really bad picture my mom took and its really blue.. is there any hope for this shot? I think she has other ones like this too...

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=jg3xp1&s=5

[Frog]

This is a problem with white balance.
What photo editing program do you have?

Check to see what white balance settings your camera is on. I leave my in auto all the time and then do corrections if necessary in photoshop but then I always shoot raw.
Would be an easy fix if you shot in raw but I doubt that happened.

Here in photoshop elements 6.0 I opened your image, clicked the enhance and in the drop down went to adjust color and that drop down selected remove color cast. This gives you a window with an eye dropper instructing you to use the eye dropper on any part of the pic that should be white, black, or gray.
I clicked on part of one of the clouds that I thought should be white and got this. Probably could do more adjustments with levels but this gives you the idea.

[kevinjmay]

Haha well I'd have to say... adding adjustment layers in photoshop to photos is the best way to fix stuff. I lowered the blue a lot, added in some red, and a touch of green. And with photoshop actions, I can correct all of the pictures with just a click of a button see below.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=27zjlp5&s=5

[freygr]

Anyone have any good tutorials or tips for photo correction (such as color)

I have some photos that are very.. blue tinted, and I'm trying to reduce that to make the picture look a bit more real.

But if you have any correction tips/tutorials for other common things that need fixing, please post them here also!

Here is before and after, I just used the auto color balance in my catalog program Thumbs Plus:

[kevinjmay]

I like my correction better... but thats just me. Photoshop is just amazing. Thanks for the comments.