Back from Turks and Caicos - dove with Caicos Adventures

[laurendell]

It was freezing rain here last night, I feel your pain. The underwater pictures were actually all neon blue until I did some research and fixed them using the Mandrake method:

http://www.scubaboard.com/cms/browse14.html

Here's a before and after. (Photoshop is great!)

Ah Yes! That is exactly what mine looked like (actually much worse I think. I can at least tell there's a fish in that picture).

 

[tarheeldiver]

I'm definitely going to check out Caicos Adventures. One question for those who have dove with them in the past -- how many divers on the boat?

sdwho

I dove with FiFi in June we had 12 max one day, most days were 6 to 8 you will love this operation All the DM's are really fun and love to find the good stuff and explain what you saw after the dive Claire and Andy were both really helpful.

 

[Bieszczat]

It was freezing rain here last night, I feel your pain. The underwater pictures were actually all neon blue until I did some research and fixed them using the Mandrake method:

http://www.scubaboard.com/cms/browse14.html

Here's a before and after. (Photoshop is great!)

Colby,

What is the Mandrake method???

This could fix a lot of my older pics that were great other than the blue!!!!

 

[colby]

Colby,

What is the Mandrake method???

This could fix a lot of my older pics that were great other than the blue!!!!

Go to the link in my post. There are some articles here on ScubaBoard that show you how to use PhotoShop to re-introduce some red, the light that has been filtered out making the blue. The article tells you a few methods, but I found the Mandrake method in the article the best way. I created a marco in PhotoShop and now I just load the picture, press the macro key, and I am left with three images that have been altered and I select the best one.

The article I used is http://www.scubaboard.com/cms/article18.html. Good luck.