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csondagar
19th of April 2004 (Mon), 20:11
I took this photo at a Butteryfly Santuary, and it turned out to be too yellow. How would I ps this photo so that it look more natural? Thanks.

http://www.photosig.com/go/photos/view?id=1209379

Vic_izoita
19th of April 2004 (Mon), 22:59
Few days ago i asked very similar question. The Subject is " how would you fix WB in PS?" .... The replies were very helpfull. Its about 7 or 10 lines below your Subject.
good luck
Victor

Jesper
20th of April 2004 (Tue), 00:41
Your photo looks VERY yellow, probably you used the wrong white balance setting (daylight or flash when you used tungsten light from lightbulbs). The yellow cast is so heavy, it will be difficult to correct.

This is what I got after playing with Curves and Levels for a few minutes in Photoshop CS.

http://home.hccnet.nl/jesper.de.jong/images/vlinder.jpg

PacAce
20th of April 2004 (Tue), 18:22
Here's my first pass at it. I'll see if I can get it a little better but it took some fiddling around with the color channels to get to this point. At this point, it's all trial-and-error but I'm going by the premise that you lost most of the information on your blue channel which is why you have a very yellowish cast to the picture. I tried to recreate some of the blue channel information from the little information that is left there plus the other two channels.

http://www.tanseikai.com/tanseikai/images/others/1209379-6e8fa4e94910470e_b.jpg

Scottes
20th of April 2004 (Tue), 19:55
Yep, not easy.

Played with Variations a bit, and the Color Balance. Finally did a Select Color Range on some of the Yellow, Select Grew it, feathered a lot and then adjusted Levels on the selection to tone down the yellows a touch - it's easy to go way too far doing that, but I think it helped a little.

http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/try1.jpg

csondagar
21st of April 2004 (Wed), 08:46
Wow! You folks are just great. Thank you for your help and advice on how to improve.