Some old friends from Purchase were in town this weekend and we had them over for dinner. Amanda took some pictures of us all laughing over old college snapshots (that I won’t ever be posted here!). Editing them today made me realize how bad our Canon 40D is at ‘Auto White Balance’ in tungsten. With some levels, hue & saturation and color balance adjustements, I got it as close as my laptop screen can get. Anyone got any tips on quick color adjustment in camera settings, or in photoshop? I know that ‘Aperture’ has a nice ‘temperature’ adjustment.
Tom | 10-Mar-09 at 4:12 am | Permalink
My suggestion would be to use adjustment layers (Layer>New Adjustment Layer) in photoshop to change the Levels/Colour Balance/Curves and Hue Saturation in a non destructive way.
You can change the whole image, or edit by individual RGB channels, and mask off areas you don’t want the adjustment layer to affect. In this case, I masked off the background in the Brightness/Contrast layer to stop it bleeding out.
Here is my quick attempt…it probably looks better in photoshop than in does in a web browser.
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc56/tomlostmonkey/megannotcopy.jpg
And I’ll email you the .psd file…