diamante67 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Hi Damien, I am struggling with a bad red color cast - I tried to increase lightness/decrease sat as well as replacement color with curves and I am not getting anything decent. Do you have any recommendations on how to handle this? (PS I am not done with the editing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Even though it looks yellow, and orange in some parts, was the flag in actuality red? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamante67 Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 yes - it's because of the backlight and it is blown but I will live with that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamante67 Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 (edited) this shows the colors a bit better (sorry for the double pic - I cannot seem to be able to delete it) Edited April 26, 2016 by diamante67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Do not - repeat, DO NOT - try to remove the red cast. It belongs there, it's meant to be there, and the photo would look darn weird without it. Instead, make the flag redder. Own the cast. Give me a few minutes, I'll post something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamante67 Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 really? I am going to own it alright! Care to share how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamante67 Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 Wait... let me guess. Channel mixer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 5 minutes ago, diamante67 said: Wait... let me guess. Channel mixer? Actually, no, not this time First Levels layer: Green channel 0/0.50/255 and 0/130 Blue channel 0/1.00/255 and 0/100 Mask VERY carefully to the red part of the flag. Second Levels layer: Red channel 0/0.50/255 and 0/225 Green channel 0/0.60/255 and 0/245 Mask VERY carefully to the blue part of the flag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamante67 Posted April 27, 2016 Author Share Posted April 27, 2016 So... this is a call for help. I did it - thank you so much for the help. But... it took me at least one hour to do the masking part, maybe even more. For the future, is there anything I can do to make the masking less painful? Is it really boiling down to experience or am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina Keddie Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Were you at least using this trick? http://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/10/shift-while-brushing.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamante67 Posted April 28, 2016 Author Share Posted April 28, 2016 I was not. I did read about it some time ago but I forgot about it. I will try to practice and see if I can start using it more regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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