Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:27 pm
On the Photoshop forum, I asked the question about removing Blue Cast from Underwater Photographs.
I had read post from Mike Russell >>>
I use (or have used) Two techniques:
1) use channel mixer to move green or blue into the red channel, to get rid of the cyan cast.
2) use Image>Adjust>Hue/Sat to bump the saturation.
or
1) convert to Lab mode, pick something that should be gray, and set it's a and b values to zero to make it neutral.
2) move the magenta end of the a curve horizontally to straighten the curve,
3) make both the a and b curves steeper to add more color. being careful to keep your neutral points in the same place
4) adjust the Lightness curve to get more contrast, in particular a clean
black and white.
....
Mike added ....
I have greatly modified the technique since then - Photoshop's new advances seem to be mostly non color correction related. Of the two techniques, the channel mixer is still probably the best place to start. If you look at the individual channels, it is not unusual to see an almost entirely black red channel, so moving data from one or both of the other channels is a good starting point.
This is the sort of idea that people like to discuss on the forum - www.curvemeister.com/forum - you may want to post your question there too.
So hence the Q
I had read post from Mike Russell >>>
I use (or have used) Two techniques:
1) use channel mixer to move green or blue into the red channel, to get rid of the cyan cast.
2) use Image>Adjust>Hue/Sat to bump the saturation.
or
1) convert to Lab mode, pick something that should be gray, and set it's a and b values to zero to make it neutral.
2) move the magenta end of the a curve horizontally to straighten the curve,
3) make both the a and b curves steeper to add more color. being careful to keep your neutral points in the same place
4) adjust the Lightness curve to get more contrast, in particular a clean
black and white.
....
Mike added ....
I have greatly modified the technique since then - Photoshop's new advances seem to be mostly non color correction related. Of the two techniques, the channel mixer is still probably the best place to start. If you look at the individual channels, it is not unusual to see an almost entirely black red channel, so moving data from one or both of the other channels is a good starting point.
This is the sort of idea that people like to discuss on the forum - www.curvemeister.com/forum - you may want to post your question there too.
So hence the Q