Photo correction

[SubMariner]

The primary thing to learn about adjusting colour is a little something called "The Colour Wheel". If you understand this principal, then adjusting colour is quite easy.

Basically, this is the principal that for every colour there is an opposite, or contrasting colour. The usual representation for this is a "Wheel" that has colours arranged around it so that you can see that the opposite for the Colour A is Colour C, etc.

This concept is nicely illustrated in PS by the Colour Balance function. One end has a colour; its opposite is on the other end of the scale.

For example, if your picture has too much cyan in it, that is probably because it doesn't have enough red in it. So by adding red, you balance the colour better. You can also choose whether you want to work with highlights, midtones or shadows.

Selective Colour also uses this concept, but in a more specialized way, where you pick one colour in your image and playing with the various colour balances only affects that one particular hue. This is especially good in taking cyan out of whites: you can take the cyan out of the white and put other colours into it to make it more balanced.

~SubMariner~

 

[Dee]

The one with all the divers....the adjusted version is too fakey for me. It the orangy color of the coral at the bottle rather than the colors on the divers.

All the others are good examples of what can be done and still keep it real.