PIP: What could I have done to make the picture "less yellow"?

clevebride2006

We were at my friend's house last night, and her foreign exchange student's family was visiting from Spain. Her mother is an excellent cook, and she made this specific dish. 

It was placed on the island, and I took a picture- but I hate how "yellow" it came out.

What could I have done to improve the picture/appear less yellow-ish? 

eta: I forgot to add the pic... sorry! 

joeysgirl2008

Adjust your white balance. Usually lights in a house make things appear more yellow than they seem.

thehomecook

Am I crazy or is there no picture in this post?

clevebride2006

joeysgirl2008:

Adjust your white balance. Usually lights in a house make things appear more yellow than they seem.

Can you explain what adjusting white balance means? Or, how I can do this?

TPOX

ditto joeysgirl.  the lighting caused it.  some cameras have built in white balance settings for different lighting situations (fluorescent lights, tungsten lights, daylight, cloudy, etc).  Even fancier cameras will let you manually set a custom white balance for your particular lighting situation.  You would do that by following the camera instructions for setting white balance and metering on a white card or white surface.  Alternately, if you've already taken the photo, adjustments can be made in some photo editing software packages.  What software do you use to edit photos?

mamie&cc

thehomecook:

Am I crazy or is there no picture in this post?

Not crazy, it wasn't there for awhile. She must have realized and inserted it after.

clevebride2006

TPOX:

ditto joeysgirl.  the lighting caused it.  some cameras have built in white balance settings for different lighting situations (fluorescent lights, tungsten lights, daylight, cloudy, etc).  Even fancier cameras will let you manually set a custom white balance for your particular lighting situation.  You would do that by following the camera instructions for setting white balance and metering on a white card or white surface.  Alternately, if you've already taken the photo, adjustments can be made in some photo editing software packages.  What software do you use to edit photos?

I just got Photoshop and am still learning how to use it. Never knew it was so complicated! 

TPOX

There's a million ways to do everything in photoshop.  you can do image/adjustments/auto color to let PS do it for you (I rarely like the results of the auto tools).  I would do Layer/new adjustment layer/ color balance and slide the bars around until you like how it looks.