Matching Color

[Darryl Brooks]

Question for the color gurus. I had the opportunity to shoot this Hindu temple today, which was amazing. But as you can see, there is one section where the stone was a little grayer. I checked another image from a different angle where the sun was straight on with no shadows and it's the same.

Is it worth trying to match the other stone and if so, what would you use? I have most every package except DxO if one is better than the others, but I have no experience with this. I'm fine with masking, but not sure how to match the tone. I tried simple local adjustments with wb and shadows, but couldn't get it quite right.

 

[Redcrown]

Pretty simple. In Photoshop or any program that allows layers:

1. Add a Solid Color layer in Color mode above the original, picking a "good" color from the original.

2. Roughly mask in the target area. Mask does not have to be precise.

3. Double click on that layer and pick other colors from the original until you get one you like. Also, play with the opacity.

For this sample, picked a color from a left side shadow and lowered opacity to about 50%

 

[Darryl Brooks]

Pretty simple. In Photoshop or any program that allows layers:

1. Add a Solid Color layer in Color mode above the original, picking a "good" color from the original.

2. Roughly mask in the target area. Mask does not have to be precise.

3. Double click on that layer and pick other colors from the original until you get one you like. Also, play with the opacity.

For this sample, picked a color from a left side shadow and lowered opacity to about 50%

Thank you, that's perfect.