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hi
i have recently joined a photoography club and bought a new Canon 350d digital camera, however i seem to keep forgetting to change the white balance setting on camera outings.
I have inserted a link to a picture i would like either someone to mess with, or help me sort it out, i have tried using levels and stting a gray point, but i cant seem to regain any colour and it just seems washed out.
i also tried to clone out the for sale board, but it wouldn't even do that either. I am using CS2 on a dell laptop, winXP home.
link: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...e/bakewell.jpg
please look at the Bakewell photo, i would really like to enter this in a competition.
many thanks
steve
hi redrooster
thanks for the very quick reply, i have a much bigger picture than that one if you need it, it has been optimised for the web.
Do i take it 'patrick' goes by another name in here, remember i dont know anyone yet!
steve
EDIT:
scratch that, i have found his name, many thanks.
Hi again steveannie. Well, your first question is a doozie! I was not able to do a particularly good job of restoring some of the original colors to that image just using Photoshop's native tools. I don't doubt that someone could, but not I in the half hour or so I was willing to spend on it. So I cheated and used a plugin ( } ) PictoColor's iCorrect Edit Lab Pro. Even then I used a couple of layers with blend modes, some burning, dodging, a layer mask or two and so forth. Here is the result. I actually spent a total of an hour on the image and ran out of time as I was called out for a Mac tech support job.
hi welles
WOWEE, what a fantastic picture, i cant believe someone with only half an hour spent on it
could make it this good 8)) 8))
YOU SIR are a god, many thanks for your time.
PS i do have another picture to do i wont be able to take the same? photo for at least a year, so i really do need it , ANYONE????...
steve
Post a link to the larger size and then resize a copy in Photoshop to 600dpi wide, save it as a JPEG less than 100K in file size using Save For Web..., and attach that here so we all can see it.
hi welles
i have added this picture for you to look at, it was taken on the same day as the last picture, so not sure if you would have to redo the same again, or maybe not as bad.
[img width=416 height=624]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a296/stevannie/bridge.jpg[/img]
will post a bigger photo on my photobucket site.
cheers
steve
ps not sure how to resize to dpi, usually just use 'save for web option'. http://photobucket.com/albums/a296/stevannie/
do you have a web address for pictocolor, google cant find it.
Here's a 10 minute job on the image which you posted before the uplink. I used iCorrect, and then the Shadow/Highlight image adjustment in Photoshop, followed by one of my favorite sharpening tools, Focus Magic. Remember, real Photoshop experts disdain the use of 'third party plugins'. I'm not a real expert, just an artist. "Whatever it takes" is my motto. However, over the years one naturally gets better and lots of plugins become secondary in quality to the capacities of a skilled person working with Photohsop's tools.
To resize images (physical dimensions) Image > Image Size... gets you the dialog. For saving to web the dialog with which you are familiar is the best.
hi welles
what can i say, both these pictures are now printed and awaiting mounting, you have performed beyond the call of duty, and made my weekend a brilliant one. I just shaded the bridge photo a touch more, because it was a bit too light on printout.
thank you so much for your time and the effort put in, i know i will enjoy my stay here. All i need do now is learn for myself, so maybe, one day i can teach others too.
thank you 8))
steve
Welles that was a nice job you did on the house...Icorrect, I'll look into it.
I wanted to see what was left if you inverted the blue tint..worked ok
at least it give a person a place to start.
if anybody wants to try it...use the eyedropper to get a blue tint sample.
Then open a new layer above the image and fill with the foreground color.
In this case its a shade of blue. Invert the color and set the layer mode to color..
lower the opacity until the colors start looking better..in my case it was 63%.
this takes only a couple of minutes but it gives you a good start.
first question 
) PictoColor's iCorrect Edit Lab Pro. Even then I used a couple of layers with blend modes, some burning, dodging, a layer mask or two and so forth. Here is the result. I actually spent a total of an hour on the image and ran out of time as I was called out for a Mac tech support job.
i wont be able to take the same? photo for at least a year, so i really do need it , ANYONE????...
Linear Mode
