EGBB From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1134 times:
Just had a rejection this morning for Color casts (first time I have had this sort of rejection) I am not complaining as it was a high sun/ early afternoon shot but was wondering what the experts would do in say photoshop to improve this sort of picture. http://airliners.net/procphotos/rejphoto.main?filename=184-8418_IMG.jpg
Ckw From UK - England, joined Aug 2010, 529 posts, RR: 18 Reply 1, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1112 times:
Should be salvagable with careful use of curves - I've had a go with the rejected file, but you will get better results from the original. I'm using Corel Photopaint in these examples - but same should look the same in PS
1 - There is a predominant blue cast - get rid of this by reducing the intensity of the blue channel using the curves tool - note the shadow area is more agressively reduced than the highlights.
2 - Now the picture is overall a bit dark, so switching to all channels (RGB) I've boosted the levels a bit (possibly too much ), again emphasising the shadow area
3 - I think there is a touch of magenta cast as well - you could fix this by a little boost to the green channel.
Of course, the examples don't look too good (cause they're crap screen shots and I'm working from a .jpg), but I think you get the idea.
Ckw From UK - England, joined Aug 2010, 529 posts, RR: 18 Reply 3, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1089 times:
Perhaps with all your spare time now you should do a editing site?
Funnily enough, it was something I was thinking about, but then there are already so many books and websites which cover this. But perhaps a few pages focussed on preparing images for A.net and addressing commonly seen problems would be helpful.
Granite From UK - Scotland, joined exactly 14 years ago today! , 5542 posts, RR: 67 Reply 4, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1086 times:
AIRLINERS.NET CREW HEAD SCREENER
Colin
If you have the time, I am pretty sure Johan could incorporate anything you may produce into the FAQ page or similar.
Sponsor Message: 
From , joined Dec 1969, posts, 
From UK - England, joined Aug 2010, 529 posts, 
), again emphasising the shadow area
From UK - Scotland, joined exactly 14 years ago today! 
, 5542 posts, 
Printer friendly format 
){kind=link}