Welles

Oho! That's a clever approach, lasa. I knew someone would find an answer with Photoshop tools. I tried curves and levels without much success before I fell back on iCorrect. The big value it has is that with a few eyedropper clicks you can establish the density of color cast correction in six different brightness levels with varying levels of correction. I'm afraid I'll never become a real expert because I tend to use any tool which makes tasks easy.

leenapink

I'm with you..What ever it takes...if I had icorrect..beleive me, it would have been Icorrect-ed.

Lasa

stevannie

hey lasa
neat job, love it, and as you say, a great place to start. i will write down your way of correcting it, as with my memory, i will need to use it again in the future, unless i shoot in RAW mode.
I suppose i could always put a better sky on it too, i think that would work great, mmm i just may try that too.
many thanks
steve

stevannie

hi guys
just had to post you this photo, i took it tonight. The wife and i went out to photograph a few night shots, but being halloween it was quite busy.
anyways let me know what you think, oh by the way, i think the light on the pub is too bright and may need toning down a bit, but i will have a go at that.
cheers
steve
[img width=600 height=400]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a296/stevannie/lowdhamnight.jpg[/img][/img]

Welles

Steve,

If you are going to have at the lighting, try Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight. Should you give that a try, be aware that when S/H loads it immediately lightens the shadows but doesn't touch the highlights. You might wish to slide the Shadow adjustment all the way down and bring up the Highlight slider to tone them down.

Red Rooster

I like those kind of pics. [honesty] were it looks like alot of things are moving but one thing is standing still

Silky

Hey, here's another approch with PS native tools. I simply used 'photo fliter' (warming filter) to eliminate the blueishness. Then I used 'selective color' to seperate the different hues in the picture.
After that I also duplicated the BG and set to soft light, but the shadows seemed to intense so I used select > color range to select the shadows and ctrl, x them out.

Red Rooster

nicely done [righton] kind of looks like an old color photo graph

leenapink

I bet that is how the original house looks.
Lasa

stevannie

hi guys
just a quick one for now, i have cloned a new sign from another photo taken on the same night, i tried the shadow/highlight thing, ok but needs something more, so i tried to dodge a bit around the lights, i first used the eyedropper to get the colour i needed, and started dodging, but it seems to come out grey, why?
steve