Removing unwanted colour

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Hi Guys, i recently took a seashore picture (using 3 exposures and HDR). There seems to be an unwanted colour (yellowish green) in the clouds for whatever reason (see picture below top middleish).

Any idea how to get rid of it? I use Elements 9 and have tried to clone it out and also tried the healing brush but the results dont look that great to be honest. Any ideas on how I can remove that colour without changing the underlying textures of the clouds?

I think ideally it should be the same colouring as the surrounding clouds.

Any help and direction on how I can amend it greatly appreciated.


East Lothian Beach by boccers, on Flickr
 
Is that on the longer exposure shots - I think that's light getting in from the viewfinder. You should cover the viewfinder with the little rubber bit that comes on the camera strap next time. No idea how to easily get rid of it though :(
 
arad85 said:
Is that on the longer exposure shots - I think that's light getting in from the viewfinder. You should cover the viewfinder with the little rubber bit that comes on the camera strap next time. No idea how to easily get rid of it though :(
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The exposures werent that long, the longest I think was circa 10 seconds.

Thanks for the response anyhow.

Any other takers on how to get rid of it?
 
Just had a very quick go with ps4.

I got as far as this.
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And a direct comparison to show the difference.
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As you can see, it's made a slight difference to the whole of the sky, but spending a bit more time would get you some better results.

All I did was use the hue/saturation adjustment, and used the eye dropper to pick the green tinged area and adjusted the jue, saturation and lightness to get it as close as possible to the surrounding sky. I used the heal tool on a little bit that refused to budge, and finally some light local burning to darken that area of the sky to match the rest.
 
Hi. Do a "select - color range" and then apply a color balance adjustment layer and move the blue/yellow slider. Fixes it pretty well.
 
Looks like you have a bit of dust on your sensor as well.
 
Another option: use the eyedropper to sample a colour you like, then go to a soft brush, put your mode to `colour` (it's right at the bottom of the menu and sometimes not visible without scrolling), opacity to about 50% and just...paint!
 
Andrew, had a little play and i achieved this within 5 mins of having a play by making a colour balance level and and a saturation level. With a few little tweets the yellowish/green colour cast had gone. I then added a masking layer to the colour balance level and brushed out the blue colour cast that was left to the whole picture. Added a little sharpening and finished with adjusting the levels. All done with PS5


6668702893_b02be6203a_b by surfinscottie, on Flickr
 
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