Get the yellow out

Gordon M · Feb 26, 2002

I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.
Currently I'm using Photoshop 4.0 and will be updated to 6.0 within the week.

I have played around using saturation/hue and then often times finishing off by adjusting using Color Balance.

Is there an easier way? I am required to do quite a few images for my company and changing the in plant lighting is not an economical alternative.

Louis Arredondo · Feb 26, 2002

Gordon M said:
I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a
heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken
under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.
Currently I'm using Photoshop 4.0 and will be updated to 6.0 within
the week.
I have played around using saturation/hue and then often times
finishing off by adjusting using Color Balance.
Is there an easier way? I am required to do quite a few images for
my company and changing the in plant lighting is not an economical
alternative.

Post a picture so we can experiment.

Patrick_C · Feb 26, 2002

Gordon -

If you shoot it again, it sounds like you should check your white balance settings, to start to correct what you've got, first try adding some blue in Curves or Color Balance.

Patrick

Gordon M said:
I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a
heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken
under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.
Currently I'm using Photoshop 4.0 and will be updated to 6.0 within
the week.
I have played around using saturation/hue and then often times
finishing off by adjusting using Color Balance.
Is there an easier way? I am required to do quite a few images for
my company and changing the in plant lighting is not an economical
alternative.

jbc2 · Feb 26, 2002

Gordon M said:
I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a
heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken
under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.

If the yellow permeates the entire image, try this:

1. Create a new empty layer above the picture.

2. With the color picker, pick a representative sample of the color from the image.

3. Fill the empty layer with this color.
4. Invert the color. Images/adjust/invert
5. Set the blending mode to "overlay"
6. Use the opacity slider to adjust the effect.

If this eliminates the color for you, that layer can be copied from image to image and should eliminate the yellow in all of them.

Suzy Q15 · Feb 26, 2002

I get a lot of shots like that if I use flash with fluorescent lighting. The quickest, easiest thing I have found (I use PS6) is to go to Hue\Saturation, in a new layer and adjust the Yellow Saturation & Lightness sliders. Hate to admit it, but I aslways take the easiest way. Sometimes just adjusting the lightness slider to the right, sometimes I have better results adjusting the Saturation (-) plus the Lightness slider (+).

Gordon M said:
I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a
heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken
under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.
Currently I'm using Photoshop 4.0 and will be updated to 6.0 within
the week.
I have played around using saturation/hue and then often times
finishing off by adjusting using Color Balance.
Is there an easier way? I am required to do quite a few images for
my company and changing the in plant lighting is not an economical
alternative.

Gary Berg · Feb 26, 2002

There is a tool (Photoshop Plugin) called "Color Mechanic" which might really help you do what you want. There is a review of it on the Luminous Landscape site which is quite descriptive. The review is here: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/mechanic.htm

Gordon M said:
I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a
heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken
under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.
Currently I'm using Photoshop 4.0 and will be updated to 6.0 within
the week.
I have played around using saturation/hue and then often times
finishing off by adjusting using Color Balance.
Is there an easier way? I am required to do quite a few images for
my company and changing the in plant lighting is not an economical
alternative.

NancyO · Feb 27, 2002

Hi!

You will not believe all the great things in store for you with this upgrade ! You can easily remove color cast either from hue/saturation or selective color adjustments to yellow. It's really quite simple with V6 and I would suggest that you pick up an intro book to this version because you'll need some basics to operate within it.

Good luck,
Post your before and afters

Nancy

Gary Berg said:
Gordon M said:

I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a
heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken
under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.
Currently I'm using Photoshop 4.0 and will be updated to 6.0 within
the week.
I have played around using saturation/hue and then often times
finishing off by adjusting using Color Balance.
Is there an easier way? I am required to do quite a few images for
my company and changing the in plant lighting is not an economical
alternative.

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Paul Taylor · Feb 27, 2002

I would use curves to remove a colour cast like this. I removed a red cast from a white shirt in an RGB scan of a B&W picture by doing this. Curves allows precise control of colour balance, among other things. Check this out for more info:

http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/curves1.html

I don't know if PS4 has curves, but PS6 definitely has.

regards,
Paul

Gordon M said:
I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a
heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken
under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.
Currently I'm using Photoshop 4.0 and will be updated to 6.0 within
the week.
I have played around using saturation/hue and then often times
finishing off by adjusting using Color Balance.
Is there an easier way? I am required to do quite a few images for
my company and changing the in plant lighting is not an economical
alternative.

Gordon M · Feb 27, 2002

Thanks everyone for the suggestions... I plan on trying them all and we'll see which one works the best and let's face it, is the easiest to execute.

Thanks!!

Gordon M said:
I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a
heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken
under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.
Currently I'm using Photoshop 4.0 and will be updated to 6.0 within
the week.
I have played around using saturation/hue and then often times
finishing off by adjusting using Color Balance.
Is there an easier way? I am required to do quite a few images for
my company and changing the in plant lighting is not an economical
alternative.

Joe Hart · Mar 8, 2002

Before you do any color correction try setting your eyedropper on a white shirt or something white in the picture. The when you do the color adjustment you can just match the numbers.

Regards, Joe Hart

Gordon M said:
Thanks!!

Gordon M said:

I ned suggestions on the best route to follow in removing a
heavy/yellow color from photographic images of machinery taken
under tungsten (not certain of thype here) lighting.
Currently I'm using Photoshop 4.0 and will be updated to 6.0 within
the week.
I have played around using saturation/hue and then often times
finishing off by adjusting using Color Balance.
Is there an easier way? I am required to do quite a few images for
my company and changing the in plant lighting is not an economical
alternative.

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