why is my stuff blue??

the top part of the stack is indifferentiated from the background. also its still blue i appreciate your help tho.

i tried really hard but i dont think theres a solution with just the raw processors. can anyone give me an idea of a good solution?

soz if i sound ungrateful

Well like I said it isn't perfect and it was quick. I think the RAW processor isn't the way to go since you can't make selections in it. Unless Lightroom can. I don't have that so I don't know. Basicly all I did was us COLOR RANGE in Photoshop and kept clicking on the sacks to choose them. Then if stuff in the backgraound got selected I used the MARQUE tool to deselect them. Click OK. Then used the CURVES tool and the white balance eyedropper and clicked on the lightest part of the sacks. Done. So, really, just select the sacks and use any tool you feel comfortable with to get rid of the blue.

ayoyoayoyo wrote in post #10461390
soz if i sound ungrateful

No sweat. It's all good.

BTW, is your screen calibrated? Cuz on mine there is plenty of seperation

k ill try that

Is this how it's supposed to look?

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yeah.

i guess you're very good at this stuff.

for the life of me i can never get it all white like that. its either pale blue or pale green.

ayoyoayoyo wrote in post #10461839
for the life of me i can never get it all white like that. its either pale blue or pale green.

Took about 5 minutes in CS5. All I did was go to adjustments tab and selected match color. From there I selected neutralize. That took out most of the blue. I then went into adjustments again and selected hue and saturation. In the drop down box where it says master, I selected blue and lowered the saturation until most of the blue was gone. I then selected from the drop down box, cyan and lowered the saturation until it came out to what you now see. That's it!

Reminds me of coming from a product photo shoot stint at work using the tungsten lighting setting on camera, and went to a quick rush for some soccer shots with the camera still set to tungsten, and got a very heavy blue cast. Won't do that again.

im using cs4 and i dont see a match color option.

ayoyoayoyo wrote in post #10464535
im using cs4 and i dont see a match color option.

It's there. Click on image/adjustments. It's toward the bottom of the list.

wow....thats pretty neat.

tho whats the point of neutralising first since you are removing all the blues with the zero saturation thing.

You have two different light source color temperatures in the same scene. if you set the WB for one, it will drive the other even further away from "accurate." THe background is likely daylight (~5500K) while the sacks are in shade (maybe 7000-10,000K). If you white balance for the daylight, the sacks look blue. If you white balance for the sacks the background turns amber. If you try to click WB on the sacks, you may remove the blue cast, but you may introduce another cast if the sacks are not actually neutral in real life. You probably want to process the image twice in your RAW converter - once with a daylight WB and once with something like shade. Then take the two images and blend them with a layer mask in PS.

This is the same thing that happens when you use a flash to illuminate a person and there is tungsten ambient lighting around or in the background. One may solve this problem by gelling the flash with a CTO filter (orange) to make the flash color temperature more like tungsten light - then there is only a single color temp in the scene to white balance.

Kirk

ayoyoayoyo wrote in post #10464725
wow....thats pretty neat.

tho whats the point of neutralising first since you are removing all the blues with the zero saturation thing.

Try and only desaturating the blue and cyan. You'll see the difference.