Improve editing of the white floor

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Hello,

i was wondering if someone could assist me with my editing of the my photos, few examples are here>>>

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=293668
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=293669
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=293402
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=293399
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=290458
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=290455

just wondered what peoples views were of these especially the floor. My issue is that i make the changes in Lightroom and at points i have to really change the exposure to the floor to get it too look correct but i find the reflection looks very faint. The reason for doing this is that around teh shadows i get some yellow tinting that i am trying to reduce.

Would this tinting around the reflection appear on prints?


Any help and advice wold be much appreciated.

Thanks
 
just going to bump this thread for some assistance, sorry.

Would like to get the floor perfect in camera so that the editting process is reduced, if anyone can assist it would be much appreciated.

Thanks
 
What exactly is the issue? I can't really see any yellow on the floor, can you post a before and after so I can see what I'm looking for.
 
Had a quick look at the RGB values or the background, and there is a small yellow tinge . but not a lot. At worst is was 5 units. I suspect that it probably wouldn't print if you were to print the image

However, as a quick fix you could try using the Colour Range option to make a selection. Use this to select the highlight area.it makes a quick mask of the highlight areas. Check it's not affecting other important highlight areas. If it is simply paint the mask away. Now with the area still selected I chose the hue an sat tool, left it set at Master and dropped the saturation by about 40%. This seemed to clean the area upniceley. Choosing the yellow option I don't think gave as clean a result.

Didn't try it on all the images, mainly the one in your example but I suspect it should work for the others.
 
So, with the two examples above you dont see much yellow? did you check the before or after image for RGB values?

mmm, thats puzzling as it looks really yellow to me, i have had the same image printed with different masking levels done on the floor, and they still show ints of yellow, if i reduce the exposure on the floor in Lightroom is then looses the shadow.

If possible advice on how to reduce the yellow tint in camera, would be helpful, to be honest dont even know where the yellow tint is coming from.

Or, could you explain your steps a but clearer? i am using Photoshop if that helps?

Thanks
 
Is your monitor calibrated?
 
These are the steps I used

In Photoshop open the image.
Under select, choose Colour Range
use the dropper tool to select the area of highlight you want to adjust.
Use the "Fuzziness" option to reduce the tonal areas that are affected . Don't worry if some additional areas are affected that you want to keep unaffected.

Select OK. You'll now see a selection highlighted by the "marching ants". If you need to modify the selection , press Q on the keyboard to select Quick Mask. With the paint brush brush, use black to add more mask, or white to remove. When done press Q to drop out of quick mask

Now simply go to Image> Adjustments>Hue & saturation, and turn down the saturation in the Master channel. The mask protects the areas you don't want affected.

On my screen the images have a very slight yellow tint but nothing exceptional. The above steps give a good white background, without to much hassle.
 
arad85 said:
Is your monitor calibrated?
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Not with any calibration software, have done tests but using a macbook, have also tried with monitor connected to macbook and think that gave me the same result, going to test that again this afternoon.

Have been meaning to buy the kit to calibrate just not got around to it, this may prompt me to now.

thanks
 
Chappers said:
These are the steps I used

In Photoshop open the image.
Under select, choose Colour Range
use the dropper tool to select the area of highlight you want to adjust.
Use the "Fuzziness" option to reduce the tonal areas that are affected . Don't worry if some additional areas are affected that you want to keep unaffected.

Select OK. You'll now see a selection highlighted by the "marching ants". If you need to modify the selection , press Q on the keyboard to select Quick Mask. With the paint brush brush, use black to add more mask, or white to remove. When done press Q to drop out of quick mask

Now simply go to Image> Adjustments>Hue & saturation, and turn down the saturation in the Master channel. The mask protects the areas you don't want affected.

On my screen the images have a very slight yellow tint but nothing exceptional. The above steps give a good white background, without to much hassle.
Click to expand...

Will give that method a whirl, and see what results i get thankd
 
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