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Stangman98

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I have been seeing this a lot on the internet lately when looking at automotive photo shoots. Not as much here as other places. The issue is BLUE. Blue glass, Blue smoke, Blue Chrome, etc. One of the reasons for this is people cranking up the contrast while editing. STOP IT. Take a moment to make your photo look the best. I learned a while back because I was guilty too. We all want that bright blue sky, but there are other ways.
First off...warm up the temp a touch AFTER you edit everything else. I go through and edit the photo and then just touch the temp to get the blue out of the chrome and glass. Second trick, desaturate the blue, yes you can still have a blue sky too. Desat the blue and then adjust the illumination of the blue.
There are work arounds to make sure the glass and chrome aren't blue. Take your time and fix it and your photo will be 100x better!!
 

Blacktop

Senior Member
I have been seeing this a lot on the internet lately when looking at automotive photo shoots. Not as much here as other places. The issue is BLUE. Blue glass, Blue smoke, Blue Chrome, etc. One of the reasons for this is people cranking up the contrast while editing. STOP IT. Take a moment to make your photo look the best. I learned a while back because I was guilty too. We all want that bright blue sky, but there are other ways.
First off...warm up the temp a touch AFTER you edit everything else. I go through and edit the photo and then just touch the temp to get the blue out of the chrome and glass. Second trick, desaturate the blue, yes you can still have a blue sky too. Desat the blue and then adjust the illumination of the blue.
There are work arounds to make sure the glass and chrome aren't blue. Take your time and fix it and your photo will be 100x better!!

Although this is good advice, but who are you talking to?
Do you have any links to automotive shots around here that would identify these perpetrators ?:dejection:

Perhaps some like the blue haze of the exhaust coming out of tail pipes. :indecisiveness:
 

Blacktop

Senior Member
Cleveland Car Cruise-3446.jpg
 

wud

Senior Member
I figured out something else - only tried it in Lightroom. If you shoot a person in grass on a sunny day (in the shade), the person can easily get a green tint on the skin or clothes. All the way to the bottom in Develop mode (LR), you can adjust shadows and other things by giving it a tint - if you move the first slider a tiny bit towards purple, the person will now get a more correct skin tone!
 

Blacktop

Senior Member
Yes ! So is Lightroom much easier than using the whole Photoshop program :? I hear many people use this instead

It is two different animal. Lightroom is more for enhancing, cataloging converting your images, where as photoshop is more for manipulation purposes.

Having said that,PS can also do a lot of what LR does as well.
 
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