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what woudl you recommend is the best way to make an off white wall in a photo appear more white.

I knwo I have done this before and I am just having a blonde moment, but at teh moment all I can think of is desaturate which makes it more of a grey.

any advice (probably best advice is leave it and come back to it later fresh lol)

thanks
 
Light it separately and overexpose it.

Doing it in PS is a pretty poor substitute for getting it right in the camera
 
Agreed Garry - always better to get it right for real, but I thought Bolerus was referring to fixing photos that were already taken? If this is something you're planning on shooting, then Garry's spot-on. Otherwise, PS to the rescue!
 
Bolerus said:
what woudl you recommend is the best way to make an off white wall in a photo appear more white.

I knwo I have done this before and I am just having a blonde moment, but at teh moment all I can think of is desaturate which makes it more of a grey.

any advice (probably best advice is leave it and come back to it later fresh lol)

thanks
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What version of photoshop is it? If it's CS3, shoot in RAW and adjust the white balance using the RAW preview panel.
 
What gary said Just blow out the wall with a light
 
I don't understand the advice to change the white balance. If the wall is off-white in real life, and you tell photoshop that it is white, the subject will be the wrong colour.

Unless, of course, the wall is the entire photo.
 
ok maybe i shoudl explain a bit better

photos already taken, and the walls are off white in the flesh, but on the phot they look horrible, I think the walls were tobacco smoke stained or something.

I do shoot in raw, and I am using CS2

Matteflinks, do you mean making multiple copies of the image and then merging them in ps, and adjusting the raws to suite on each version because the subjects are spot on the right colour or is there a simpler way ?

Blapto, I assume that matte is talking about making multiple layers and altering just the walls layer


right now (as im typing) i am about to try markp's method. brb
 
mm thanks mark, I can see that working, not quite right but a good started

I did this once before and got a really good result, but really can't rememebr what i did
 
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