help fixing colour in my wife's wedding dress

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Photoshop - Color Balance
Cyan to Red: -27
Magenta to Green: -26
Yellow to Blue: +36

Jpeg or raw? Post the link to the original high res file.

With raw it's just a white balance and exposure adjustment, maybe tweaking the color slightly.

The sample is underexposed and the temperature is waayyyy to warm making it orange tinted. Cool the temperature down in LR and increase the exposure

good luck

it's raw I'll post links to raw files later today.

TCShadow wrote in post #11660641
it's raw I'll post links to raw files later today.

Have you tried the advice given so far -- brightening and adjusting the White Balance toward cooler, maybe the Blue or Purple saturation in the HSL panel? If so, how far have you gotten?

I used the masked brush in lightroom and ended up just matching up the colour... I didn't see a way to cool the colour in the selection and if i did the whole picture it destroyed the skin tones.

I also sharpened the flowers and the little diamante pattern around the dress. Also increased clarity.

The camera missed focus unfortunately but it's the picture my other half likes best from the sequence. It looks pretty good unless you blow it up too big.

IMHO it's just underexposed. The photographer exposed for the wedding dress, which is one school of thought, but since wedding dresses are reflective and have phosphors in them if you expose for the dress everything else is underexposed. My usual method is to expose for the face, then bring the dress back if possible.

The way to work with this is to selectively brighten the non-dress areas of the photo. You can do it in your raw converter (ACR does it) with the adjustment brush, don't know if DPP does. You can do it in PS in any number of ways, such as a brightness or levels layer with a mask so it doesn't affect the dress. Just use a soft brush around the edges of the dress.

yeh i can give that a go too see what the result is.

Now that you mention it my wife has very light almost white skin so yes the picture is definitely underexposed.

I don't do Lightroom. If you have Photoshop, it's a simple matter of placing a sample point and using curves to bring the RGB values up to those of your original sample. Takes about a minute.

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See if this works.

http://img692.imagesha​ck.us/img692/7691/z9c9​7608x12.jpg

yeah definitely close bit too blue on the colour but I'll try your suggestion when i get home.

Thanks!

TCShadow wrote in post #11668821
yeah definitely close bit too blue on the colour but I'll try your suggestion when i get home.

Thanks!

If the rest of the image is OK (note the cloning in the background and extension of the canvas on the right, and leveling the image), it's a simple matter to select the purple part, open a curves adjustment layer, and make it less blue.

Peano wrote in post #11668860
If the rest of the image is OK (note the cloning in the background and extension of the canvas on the right, and leveling the image), it's a simple matter to select the purple part, open a curves adjustment layer, and make it less blue.

wow i didn't even pick up all that stuff you did... i want your skills heh