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Need assistance with color correction

irian

irian

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OK, this is not related to an anime wallpaper, but I really need some guidance on color correction, and this seemed like the right place to ask, with so many experienced users of graphic software here. Long story short, I took my camera to the beach, and the sun must have affected it, as now all the pictures it takes are sort of blueish. Particularly, there is a set of pictures that I really love, and would like to get fixed to print them again, but right now the colors are a mess.

Any PS gurus can help me out with this?

Here is the original picture (dont worry about the scanlines, it's a pretty lame scan, I have a nicer bigger resolution file available, but can't upload it anywhere).

Original Pic

Now, as you can see the picture has some dreadful blue/magenta color cast. I played around with the color balance, basically adding red and green, and got this

Corrected Pic

So, the bottom of the dresses is now white, and our skins don't look martian anymore, but now the pic seems a bit too yellowish... I can counter that adding a bit more blue, but then it's way too blue ;_; And well, of course the sky is yellow-gray (but I live in Mexico city, so that's sort of normal I guess).

If also there is a way to correct the colors of the dresses, I would love to hear that. Actually, we're supposed to be using pink, lilac, green and blue. See why my camera is now unusable?

Here is another pic, shot a while before this one, when my camera worked. You can see the actual colors here

Picture with correct colors

I actually made some progress by painting over the dresses with a brush set to color mode., and usiing the eyedropper to select the right color from the ok pic. However, although that fixes the dresses color, the pic still has a yellowish feel. The floor, the faces look sort of yellow even though the dresses are right.

Anyway... I've been fiddling with the color balance , levels, hue/sat/bri... etc. for a while, and I 'm still unable to fix this poor thing. I would really appreciate any pointers on more ideas on how to get the color fixed.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

ocelotisun

ocelotisun

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:\ ... I never did color correction so I can't help on that matter but I can point some good sites with tips and techniques about photo retouching and restoration that I have come across...
http://www.retouchpro.com/
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/
http://www.pixel2life.com/

irian

irian

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Really nice sites! Thanks!

ocelotisun

ocelotisun

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You're welcome... I'm glad that I could help... :D Hope you can fix your photos... :) Cya

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