Can someone fix the color on this photo?

Today was my kids' first day of school. The lighting is lousy at my house! I tried the backyard but the sun was too bright. So we decided to do the front porch where it was more shady. But I hate the way the color looks on the photos. Can anyone help me fix it? I'd love to know what you do so that I can try to edit some others I have too. Thanks in advance!

Here is the link to it on Flickr:
http://farm4.static.fl​ickr.com …98818148_92b823​0631_o.jpg

Your white balance is too cool... if you're shooting RAW bring it up a bit in your raw converter. I can't do any colour work on the monitor I'm currently on but I'm sure someone else will...

Here is a feable attempt. If you had the raw file it would be easier to correct.

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Sorry, I don't have the RAW file because I didn't shoot it in RAW. Darn!

here is my novice attempt.

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what kind of "color" are you expecting? the color of skin tone or the color of the background?

I am most concerned about the color of the skin tone.

Thanks!

Adjusting in raw would be easiest but you can adjust the jpeg as well. I had a quick crack at it, you might want to play with the settings a bit. All I did was to adjust curves. I boosted the red a bit, blue toned down a bit. upped the contrast a little and sharpened a little.

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okay in the first photo I adjusted just the WB in adobe raw...but in the 2nd I processed it as I would normally process a photo like this...so how much work you want to do on a photo ultimately affects the look too.

I had to make some educated assumptions about colors since I could not find anything to verify WB, but perfect WB notwithstanding, creative WB is often better.

If this edit is close to what you are looking for, I will be happy to post all of the editing details.

REVISED: The large online version has been deleted. The attached version below is somewhat compressed so the colors are not quite the same.

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Added contrast, little more saturation, and a little tighter crop.

I only did 2 things for this: Used the "Color Cast" correction tool in Photoshop Elements 2.0 (I used the white part of her dress to sample "white", then I increased the saturation by 20%.

I don't know why such a usefull feature is kept out of the Expensive Version of Photoshop!

Rad

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Does anybody else find the Foundation wall distracting, I'm surprised it has not dissapeared in any of the edit's?

Very nice job Bill, I would love to know what steps you used to color correct the Temperture as well as the rest of the workflow....

neumanns wrote in post #6180606
Does anybody else find the Foundation wall distracting, I'm surprised it has not dissapeared in any of the edit's?

Very nice job Bill, I would love to know what steps you used to color correct the Temperture as well as the rest of the workflow....

Removing backgrounds from close-up portrait type shots is just asking for trouble because there is no completely satisfactory way to blend hair into the new background. The ways that I treat distracting backgrounds is to do one of the following: ignore them when it isn't too bad; darken or lighten it depending on foreground and background colors and brightness; or mute the background by reducing saturation and contrast and also using "negative clarity" (something that is both a new feature and a new oxymoron all at the same time in ACR 4.5). Sometimes, I will also do a selective lens blur on the background.

Later today after I finish my newsletter deadline, I will try to find time to outline the editing that I did.

Thanks to everyone for their help! They really look great!