Photo Correction

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!

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

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.

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

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Originally Posted by 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!

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

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