De-saturating a specific area of a photo in Photoshop

I have a photo with a Magenta color cast on a specific area that cannot be removed properly with Hue/Saturation and a mask. Is there a way to de-saturate it, and only it(maybe by selecting it somehow)?

TIA

Using the selection tool you can select a color range, once selected you could then manipulate it. Just do it on a new layer that you can mask back in so that you dont have to worry that simikar tones elsewhere in the image are affected.

gonzogolf wrote in post #17261564
Using the selection tool you can select a color range, once selected you could then manipulate it. Just do it on a new layer that you can mask back in so that you dont have to worry that simikar tones elsewhere in the image are affected.

How can you select a color range? you use the selection tools to select an area.

rfe777 wrote in post #17261574
How can you select a color range? you use the selection tools to select an area.

What version of ps?

gonzogolf wrote in post #17261576
What version of ps?

Photoshop cc 2014

I only have cs 3 but using the selection menu there is tool for selecting color range. Eyedropper tool to select the troubling color then adjust the fuzziness to expand or restict the selected range. Then adjust saturatin as desired.

Select>Color Range from the menu.

It surprises me that you can't do what you want to do with a masked Hue/Sat layer. That's a pretty powerful combo for that.

gonzogolf wrote in post #17261598
I only have cs 3 but using the selection menu there is tool for selecting color range. Eyedropper tool to select the troubling color then adjust the fuzziness to expand or restict the selected range. Then adjust saturatin as desired.

How can it be done with adjustments layers?
And BTW, I don't want to completely de-saturate the selected area, just the Magenta color.

Sorry if you cant follow the instructions above I cant help you. Its not that hard.

gonzogolf wrote in post #17261627
Sorry if you cant follow the instructions above I cant help you. Its not that hard.

Please read again what I wrote.

rfe777 wrote in post #17261628
Please read again what I wrote.

And please try what I suggested. Once you have the range selected use sny of the color manipulation tools you wish.

gonzogolf wrote in post #17261633
And please try what I suggested. Once you have the range selected use sny of the color manipulation tools you wish.

I have tried what you suggested, but I always use adjustments layers to do my color corrections and not the options that are in the menus, as they(adjustments layers) are non-destructive and can always be deleted or changed as needed. So how can your technique be done in adjustments layers?

Just create a new layer and select an area to work in. That's about as non destructive as it gets.
Use whatever selection tool you like as long as you are working in the new layer you'll be ok.

Make a selection using whatever tool you want in a new layer. Choose the hue/saturation adj layer (for example). Your selection will load into this new adj layer.
From the drop down menu choose the colour range you want to effect, magenta in your case. Move the sliders till the colour is how you want it.

Thats' one way of doing it

rfe777 wrote in post #17261652
I have tried what you suggested, but I always use adjustments layers to do my color corrections and not the options that are in the menus, as they(adjustments layers) are non-destructive and can always be deleted or changed as needed. So how can your technique be done in adjustments layers?

Make a new duplicate layer.

If the area with the color cast is small, just draw a selection box around it and hit Ctrl-J (or Cmd-J on a Mac) to put the area on its own layer. Then bring up the ACR filter (CTRL-Shift-A or Cmd-Shift-A on Mac). Go to the the lens correction tab and check Remove Chromatic Aberration, then move the purple sliders and see if they won't fade out the color cast.