colour correction

Hi everyone, one of my clients sent me a portrait photograph to be used on some literature. it obviously needs some work on it especially colour correction. i'm wondering if anyone has any good suggestions as to what adjustments i should make, or can point me to any tutorials that would help?
Colour correction baffles me sometimes!

thanks
Dave

[destron]

i'm not an expert here, but i believe the easiest way to correct color is to use the image>adjustments>color balance box which allows you to control the RGB of shadows, midtones, highlights. don't use hue/saturation, it doesn't work.

[stiney51]

The best way to learn is to do what destron suggested. Open up the color balance menu and start fiddling. Keep at least 2 copies of the photo open so you have something to compare the results to. I just took 5 minutes toying with the color balance (adding reds greens & blues across the board) and adding a little brightness & contrast with these results (like destron I'm no expert, but every photo is going to be different, so there's not cookie cutter solution that I've seen on this).

[Jacorre]

Maybe sharpen the eyes and make them stand out more, add some color to the cheeks.

[tamlin]

The only other thing I would add to what destron, stiney51 and Jacorre have suggested is to mask off the red of her blouse - you're gonna need to boost the reds to put some colour in her face, but if you don't mask that area it's going to be way too red.

This is what I came up with, using a Color Balance adjustment layer with a layer mask applied to the blouse. I used the following settings:

Shadows: +10 Blue
Midtones: +60 Red
Highlights: -14 Magenta



The result is similar to stiney51's version, but the red of the blouse is not so intense. The advantage of using an adjustment layer is that you can tweak the colour correction as many times as you like.

It's not perfect, but I hope it's given you some ideas.

[Cindy103]

well if You Use Adobe photoshop all you have to do is press colour balance and ajust the colour and select the parts u want to change colour


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