Showing posts with label photoshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photoshop. Show all posts

Friday, January 19, 2007

Fun with color correction

I've used Photoshop for 20 years and while I'm still far from being an expert, a small color correction can really improve a picture's quality. I did color correction on some photos for a friend's web site and thought it'd be fun to share a couple of the results. I'm sure I could easily sink another hour of work into each, but you can already see the difference after 10 minutes of tweaking.

Before color correction:



After color correction:


The ocean is still too green, but I'd have to mask her out to do a proper color correction, which is another 15-20 minutes.


Before color correction:



After color correction:



Doesn't it look like a thin grey veil has been peeled off the original? Few people really understand the value of color correction until they see results like this.