S30 - Redish Skin Tones, please Help!

[Wayne77]

Hello everyone,

I am brand new here, but have been lurking for awhile. just purchased a Canon S30 and have been loving it. I do have a problem with one thing though: With indoor shots, I am getting some slightly emphasized reds in the skin tones on faces. Almost as if the people are slightly sunburnt. Is there a way to adjust the camera for this? Or am I stick with fixing this in a prgram like Photoshop? Would any one mind giving me a few suggestions to get the warmer kin tones back? Also, if I can only do this in Photoshop, what is the best way to fix this without changing the balance of the rest of the picture?

I am a rookie with this whole thing but am extremely excited to learn more!

Thanks a ton!

[JohnMN]

This sounds like a White Balance problem. If you have a manual setting on your camera make sure it is set to either Auto (where the camera will take a reading of the light and set the White Balance itself) or set it to Tungsten, which is normally the kind of indoor lights most people have in their homes. Do you use the camera in Manual or Auto mode most of the time and what mode were you in when you noticed the images had a red tint to them?

JohnMN

[Wayne77]

Thanks for your suggestions. I have taken indoor pictures (with flash) in both Auto white balance and Tungsten with the same problems. Could this be an unnavoidable effect of the flash with the indoor lighting? I have taken the pics with the noted effect in both Portrait mode, with auto wb and tungsten wb, as well as in Auto mode. It doesn't look too bad, it just makes people look like they're blushing or a little sunburnt. I'm new to digital photgraphy so maybe this is a common thing with compact digital camera's?

Thanks again for any help you can give me!

Wayne

[Camerashy]

I am having the exact same problem with my S110. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

[JohnMN]

I use either the Auto White Balance or if I'm using Portrait AE or Manual Mode, I would use the Tungsten setting and my pictures don't have this red colour you talk about. Maybe if you check back over previous postings on this forum, you might find some other people with the same problem. What kind of lighting is in the area you take the pictures? Are you standing at least 5 to 6 feet away from your subjects?

JohnMN