Aerial Photography Color Adjustment

[Anonymous]

I recently took some aerial photos of the area around our lakehouse. However, I didn't have access to a window that opened and had to take the photos through the windshield. Can anyone recommend the proper color correction settings in Photoshop to remove the inherent blue tint of aviation windows?

[Gabriel_907]

Presuming that the window has a uniform tint, try this:
Open the pictures in Adobe Elements and with:
Enhance\Adjust Color\Color Cast click around a region in the picture that is supposed to be neutral. Try till you get a decent white balance.

Good luck!

[neil_r]

Post a sample of the pic and lets see what we can do.

Neil

[Kystrl]

Neil, here are some of the aerial photos I took that I'm trying to clean-up.

http://td.instantlogic.com/PhotoGallery_Detail.ilx?idAlbum=%7bCED4FAF7-8AAC-4F62-B316-6F1DCFAA5B7D%7d&Page=3

http://td.instantlogic.com/PhotoGallery_Detail.ilx?idAlbum=%7bCED4FAF7-8AAC-4F62-B316-6F1DCFAA5B7D%7d&Page=1

[ssim]

Here is my attempt at these for you. I'll leave them on my site for a couple of days only.

http://www.pbase.com/image/25170705.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/25170680.jpg

They are both a tad on the soft side and you could hit them with more sharpening but then they look weird.

[Kystrl]

Sheldon, those came out pretty close to what I'm trying to accomplish. What program and settings did you use to edit them?

[ssim]

I used photoshop CS, though any recent version of photoshop could do the same thing.

I can't tell you what exact settings I used but this is the process that I used.

I worked on each component of the picture separately. I selected just the hills where the ski hill is and used levels to adust the colors, then I went onto the hazy hills between the first hill and the sky and did the same process. Each area of the picture was done in this fashion. As a very last step I applied some USM to the image at about 40% and 1.5.

I know that this could probably be done use layers better but I have only been using photoshop for a short while and am still learning. If you have grabbed copies of these I will nuke them from my pbase.

[Kystrl]

Thanks for your help. I'll give that a try.

[neil_r]

Origional Image
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neil.rice1/forum/old1.jpg
Corrected Image
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neil.rice1/forum/Test1.jpg


Origional Image
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neil.rice1/forum/old2.jpg
Corrected Image
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neil.rice1/forum/test2.jpg

I think the colour is sortable, however the plexiglass has caused some other problems, the image is very soft in places and there is quite a bit of reflection in the second image.