Curvemeister Forum

Here are my RGB and Lab Bears . . .

Brian,

Your choice of neutral really makes or breaks this image.  It will still look warm if you take some of the red out.
Please describe your process for setting a neutral for me....  Do you use the hue clock to help you??  

In the attached screen shot I set the neutral near the nose and then toned down the grass a bit in LAB. I also added a contrast pin to the fur and tweaked it slightly... Your RGB correction was closer to the mark but you still have too much red in the image over all.

Greg

Not sure what went wrong.  I did use the nose and the hue clock and did check to make sure everything was right.  Part of the explanation could be that my monitor calibration had drifted off, whicn I fixed this morning.  In the Sun Moon Lake image, I kept seeing magenta in the sky and on the water which was not showing up on the hue clock.  On the Lab image I think I added a little yellow to accentuate the sunlight on the fur.  So maybe I overcorrected with a bad calibration?  Let me take another shot at the Lab with my new monitor profile.

Here is my second try in Lab Greg.  I used a Hue mask to saturate the grass less than the fur.

definitely better...

Greg