Originally posted by dvest The first image is a screen shot of all that was done in Adobe Camera Raw. The second was after opening it in Photoshop and just making some color balance and Hue and saturation adjustments. I had to do it again to get the screen shot. The first time I was in a hurry and didn't notice the color of the curtains so I made them green this time.
I'm also impressed with what you did from the jpeg.
Thanks that was good - I never thought of using the saturation levels -
but obviously hindsight is always 20/20 - it absolutely makes sense since the horrendous magenta lighting could be reduced by reducing saturation.
Thanks for that - the beauty of these forums is that I learn from others' experiences and take.
Thanks for the comment on my attempt with the JPG -
see later in this post on what I actually did -
But I am even more impressed with your attempt on the JPG -
Originally posted by dvest This was done with several color balance, hue & saturation, selective color and curves adjustments in Photoshop. I spent more time on this one than the raw and can see now I could have done better had I spent a few more minutes on the raw image.
Yes, yes!! that is very, very impressive -
a very, very worthwhile attempt -
I wish I could process as well as that -
kudos! on processing a JPG -
I hope everyone will note dvest's processing is on the JPG -
which shows that with the right skills one can do as well - and sometimes better than RAW.....
This is kind of the like the saying in photography -
it's not the camera - but the person behind it -
To be explicit - it's not RAW or JPG or the processor/converter -
but the person doing the processing......
OK, as promised - my processing steps:
I am actually doing it now while I am typing this to take screen shots of the processing steps -
1) open JPG with Pentax DCU (time taken = few seconds)
Note the magenta picture highlighted is the JPG version -
and PDCU is on the default "Camera setting"
2) select Gray Point Setting (highlighted in red outline)- then click on the bassist's white t-shirt (time taken = few seconds)
(note the highligting and selection is on the JPG)
That was it
- the result -
(total time so far less than 1 minute)
EXIF attached - check the time stamp to see I did this while typing this post.
All I then did, was to bring it into my regular photo editor and adjust brightness/contrast - I did deselect the bassist's white t-shirt so it would not be totally burnt out (time taken probably 1 minute)
So about a couple of minutes and almost no special skills used -
it's taken me more time to type this and doing all the screen shots and adding text to the shots,
than it took to get to this
end result in Post #
29
(I did reduce saturation a bit so this would not be so garish)
So to salvage a horrendous magenta cast problem -
RAW is not necessarily the only solution -
one can work on the JPG
and in less than 2 minutes, I can get a presentable result
without any special skills or processing.
But I am very impressed with dvest's JPG result -
if you would be kind enough please give us a bit more detail
on what you did to achieve your results, please? Thanks.
Last edited by UnknownVT; 04-14-2011 at 01:35 PM.