fixing hideous colour cast from fluorescent lighting

[Joe P]

I had to take some pix at work yesterday, but as it was a spur-of-the-moment thing I didn't have my camera with me.

The AWB on my Fuji S5 does a decent job getting the colour balance right, even under difficult or mixed lighting, but the little Canon P&S I used is quite crap. Everyone looks jaundiced or as though they exist on a diet high in beta carotene.

The Canon can't save pix as RAW files, so I shot the lot as jpegs. This means that ACR, which usually is my saviour, can't be used to skew the balance from the yellowy-orangey end of the spectrum.

Any easy fixes in PS?

Joe

 

[Paulicus]

In photoshop try this - Image> Adjustments>Variations this is the basic colour correction tool, it doesn't work on 16 bit images though, and it performs the correction on the actual image so duplicate your background first. Then do a save as ...HTH

 

[Patrick Dixon]

You could try:-

Layer-> New Adjustment layer -> Photo Filter...

Then select a warming or cooling filter as appropriate, and adjust the density.

 

[Joe P]

Thanks, chaps.

A cooling filter is working wonders.

Joe

 

[beeroclock]

Hi Joe

if you go to www.atncentral.com you will find a digital grey card action in the download section - definately worth ago.

cheers philip

 

[beeroclock]

here's the link

http://www.atncentral.com/editing_highlight.htm

cheers philip

 

[Joe P]

Thanks, Philip.

The cooling filter helped, but the colours were still somewhat meh even after extensive correction.

Joe

 

[Patrick Dixon]

here's the link

http://www.atncentral.com/editing_highlight.htm

cheers philip

I'm sure it's a wonderful thing - if only I knew what to do with it.

 

[beeroclock]

hmmm

load the action set into photoshop, click play then follow instructions. If you don't use or know what actions are, then you are missing out on a lot as regards photoshop.

cheers philip