How to fix this?

How can I fix this background? I hate how I have the warm tones from the sun, and then I have the cold from the shade. What would be the best way to fix? I have LR4, and CS5. I originally thought about taking out the woods and putting in sky there, but I'd like to just have it "match" better instead since I don't think I'm good enough to get a sky in there, and to look good.

Would love to hear your thoughts...and grrr on me not noticing before I set them up there. I'm leaning all the time!

Thank you!

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I'm far from being any kind of expert but I kind of like it as it is.
Did you take a RAW copy? If so then may you could play around with the settings in LR4?

This better? LR4.2, Brush, Temperature slider all the way over to the left.

Make 2 copies...
On one, fix for subject
On the other, fix for background

Combine...

Desaturate the background based on selective hue and local adjustement.

Wow, so impressed! Awesome edits! YB98, could you please explain "based on selective hue and local adjustment" a bit more. I'm so impressed that they the colors match so identical! I'm assuming you did this in CS5, and not LR? I love learning this. I feel I've come a long way, but oh my do I have loads and loads to learn yet.

Thanks again!

Also impressed that LR4 can do this! I played with it a bit with the temp slider, but then wondered if that was the best way to go about it.

Thank you!

tzalman wrote in post #15185974
This better? LR4.2, Brush, Temperature slider all the way over to the left.

sbkanut wrote in post #15186204
Wow, so impressed! Awesome edits! YB98,

other than the missing color in the guy's hair, its pretty decent

I went the other direction and used a couple of warming filters in CS6.

sbkanut wrote in post #15186204
Wow, so impressed! Awesome edits! YB98, could you please explain "based on selective hue and local adjustment" a bit more. I'm so impressed that they the colors match so identical! I'm assuming you did this in CS5, and not LR? I love learning this. I feel I've come a long way, but oh my do I have loads and loads to learn yet.

Thanks again!

I didn't use LR, neither CS5. I used DPP and DPP++ plugin.
Here is how I did.

1. First save a colored version in button n°1

That's so cool! I wonder if you can do anything similar in CS5? I also have DPP (that's Canon's raw program, right?), but have never even installed it...or opened it.

I was wondering too if I could maybe just desaturate and then paint some of the color back in in CS5. That would be simple enough....just not sure if I would get the results like you did

Thank you for sharing!

D Thompson wrote in post #15186541
I went the other direction and used a couple of warming filters in CS6.

This looks a lot better to me; adding the warmer tones to the subjects is much more appealing than turning the background into neutral gray to match bluish subjects.

I think your over thinking it.... It looks fine as do all the other attempts.

I would process the people and the top part of the back ground to your taste. Then process the lower part of the background using color temp, contrast and other adjustments in lr4 to match the processed top. Bring them both into photoshop and mask to blend the two together.

I'm with Steve; I much prefer the edit where the subjects were warmed up...however, I don't really have a problem with the original, either.