Removing a color cast in PP?

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I know I should avoid situations like this, but:

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The picture was taken under a red parasol so the fur looks pink. And I thought I'd ask how to deal with this in PP as it's happened to me with people shots too.

I guess the white bits I could just try and desaturate or mask red out of there, but is there a 'pro tip' in here somewhere how to do this the right way?

Normally I don't touch my pics with actual image editing software at all but I might have to try it :)
 
enhance>adjust colour > remove colour cast .... works for me on elements

hope this helps
 
ianbarber said:
If was shot in Raw, open the image in Adobe Bridge and use the "white balance" eye dropper on a neutral part of the image.
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Ummm.. no? it turns the whole image green?

I'll probably have to get PS Elements or something similar..
 
Still looks pretty pink to me Ian....... see muzzle - and the whitre on the neck looks plain wrong.

Vaiski - if you shot it in RAW, then there may be a possibility of recovering it............
 
Yes I always shoot in raw.. all the other pics I have of the dog seem to have blown the highlights on the nose fur as they were shot in direct sunlight. So no comparison pic, but the nose is white :)
 
Jukka - what post processing software do you have?

If you let the forum know what you have than people with the samewould be better to advise - i.e. I have x so if you have y no point me telling you how to do it in x.

Lynton
 
Ah. I use Aperture 3 exclusively, I've no pixel-editing SW right now (well Gimp.. hehe) but I did work quite a bit with Photoshop about 10 years ago.
 
Doing this with a Hue and Saturation layer should be far more effective than levels here so long as you mask correctly. A quick go in PhotoShop gave me this.
 
Good job Mr. T..! I pity the fool who tries this without Photoshop :lol:

I'll have to get a license then, the CS version is a very expensive toy though and not sure if Elements has all the features I'd need. Have to google & read up on that.
 
I'm sure you can do this with other image editing software, perhaps even the freebies. PhotoShop is well worth obtaining, however you do it :).
 
If you just shoot in jpeg you can still play with the white balance. For CS2 in levels click on the white balance eye dropper thing then click on a neutral area. Just thought I would add that for peeps that just shoot jpgs.
 
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