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**Jules** and other photo-editing gurus!
How often do you shoot people? (sounds weird to type that)
And, when I go to edit my images of people, I can't seem to ever get the reddish hue out so there's a clean skin tone. Maybe something with the white balance?
Also, images from say Bower Power (Memorial Day and Sponsors) seem to be so crisp and clean. Any ideas how to edit images to look like this? The Sponsors post is a good example of what my photos look like OOC and what I want them to look like- esp. the second to last photo of the family of 3.
Can anyone help?
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Re: **Jules** and other photo-editing gurus!
Haha, yes, I always feel weird with that phrasing, but I can't seem to come up with anything better
I "shoot" people fairly often and have learned a few tricks. There are a few things that you want to look for in camera:
First you want to make sure that you are nailing your exposure, if you underexpose and try to correct that in post processing, that can create over saturated colors.
The second is, yes, to look at your white balance setting. I will most often use a preset that closely reflects the lighting conditions that I am working in and then to do small adjustments in PP. IF they all seem to be off, then it may be time to set your custom white balance.
When you are looking at your images after, is the monitor that you are using calibrated? If not, it *could* just be your particular monitor.
Assuming it's the image, then to correct it in PSE (I think that's what you have, right?) here are a few things you can try:
You can try to add a filter in a new adjustment layer to balance the color (try cooling 80 which adds blue and green)
You can try to use the color balance tool box to adjust the colors in your various tones (shadows, mid tones, highlights) and you can adjust each tone separately.
You can try under your RGB histograms in the color corrections to go to the blue and move the arrows at either end to each peak and then the same with the greens.
Lastly, there is a white balance corrector that you can use the eye dropper by clicking on something that should be black or pure white and it will adjust for you (it can be tricky to grab the right spot and you may have to try a few times until it looks right).
Sorry, I am not at home to find the locations and the names of the tool bars or to do screen shots, but I can tonight!
heck yes!!
I may send you another image that I can't seem to get right. There's a section of the image that's completely blown out and a bit grainy.
Let me know how it goes and you've got my e-mail!
For the image that you mentioned was blown in some spots, there may not be much you can do to recover it unless you shot in RAW. Depending on the area, it may not matter, you may be able to crop it, or you may be able to do some healing or cloning to cover it.
Cloning is an amazing thing though - here's part of one that I did recently (I don't want to put the whole image on the web, so here's a part of an image that I did:
Before:
After:
(Wasn't the final edit, but close)
What part of the image did you clone?
I think I've got the hang of the eye dropper tool, and finally figured out how to open the Raw Converter tool box thing. Adjusting the white balance and adjusting the clarity, it's starting to look good!
I used her right ear and mirrored over mom's finger and then I "built" the side of her eye and her neck using other surrounding skin tones ... so if you have blown spots in a photo, you can use the same concept and clone / heal from other parts of the image to recreate what should be there.
Awesome, I am glad that you are finding tools that are working for you! You should post some before and afters
Haha, then the edit looks pretty natural then