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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 458281" data-attributes="member: 13090">I'm learning to correct color myself and I'm finding there's a lot to it. Part of the problem lies in the fact that when we see familiar things in photos, like green grass, our brain will tell us it looks green because it knows that grass *should* be green. It is only when we see &quot;not green&quot; grass alongside grass that is truly green that we see the color shift, like in your photos above. There's also a lot more to it than white balance alone. The more you work with correcting color, though, the better you get at identifying off color in your photos. Someone once pointed out to me that Nikon camera's tend to shoot on the &quot;cool&quot; side, and now I routinely use apply a separate Levels Adjustment layer, drop down to the&nbsp; Blue color channel and move the Midtones slider from 100 to 95. Not every photo needs this subtle adjustment but the vast majority of shots look better for doing this. It's one of the best tips anyone has passed along to me.The tutorial that got me started color correcting my photos is this one, <a href="http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/tone-color/" target="_blank">Fix Tone and Color with Levels In Photoshop</a>, from Photoshop Essentials. It's not absolutely comprehensive, but it's a good start. ....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 458281, member: 13090"] I'm learning to correct color myself and I'm finding there's a lot to it. Part of the problem lies in the fact that when we see familiar things in photos, like green grass, our brain will tell us it looks green because it knows that grass *should* be green. It is only when we see "not green" grass alongside grass that is truly green that we see the color shift, like in your photos above. There's also a lot more to it than white balance alone. The more you work with correcting color, though, the better you get at identifying off color in your photos. Someone once pointed out to me that Nikon camera's tend to shoot on the "cool" side, and now I routinely use apply a separate Levels Adjustment layer, drop down to the Blue color channel and move the Midtones slider from 100 to 95. Not every photo needs this subtle adjustment but the vast majority of shots look better for doing this. It's one of the best tips anyone has passed along to me. The tutorial that got me started color correcting my photos is this one, [url=http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/tone-color/]Fix Tone and Color with Levels In Photoshop[/url], from Photoshop Essentials. It's not absolutely comprehensive, but it's a good start. [color=white]....[/color] [/QUOTE]

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