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Image Correction: Looking at the Process

by Al Ward

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I mentioned a few weeks ago that my new book is now on shelves. Now, it wouldn’t be

prudent for me to give yet another shameless plug for ‘Photoshop for Right Brainers:

The Art of Photo Manipulation’ yet again, even though it is very reasonably priced on

Amazon.com and a simple search for either Al Ward or the book title will quickly supply

you with a link and purchasing information for said title. No, I am going to totally bypass

the opportunity once again to encourage you to by Photoshop for Right Brainers (by Al

Ward, no less). Did I mention it is available on Amazon.com?

I know, some days I can be totally exasperating. Anyway, while developing the spec for

that title, it occurred to me that one element tends to be left out of a majority of books.

True, you can generally find some decent step by step procedures that will fix a problem

image, but what I tried to do with the book is focus not only on the before, after, and

all-steps-in-between, but on the process. In your mind, when doing corrections, what

step should come first? What third? Can they be interchanged? Often the path you take

to get from point A to point Z is just as important as the steps taken. This week I’ll go

through a simple image correction, but rather than focusing on the actual steps, see if

you can follow my logic in taking them. Granted, this may not be the same way you or

others might take, but that’s fine also. I’m just going to show you my process for this

one image, and see if I can’t plug some life into what should be a really cute photo.

To begin, here’s a night shot photo taken of my daughter a couple years ago. The first

thing I noticed about this shot was the green color cast. Next was the wash out from

the flash. Lastly, the standard dirty face typical of that particular model. Other parents

will attest to this: they come that way from the factory.

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Before I do any correction to the color, I’m first going to clean up that face. To do this

I’ll simply duplicate the Background layer and patch over the dirt with the Healing tool

by sampling clean areas of the face next to the dirty areas and then covering them

up/blending them with the dirty portions.

Notice that I also took care of the runny nose in the same fell swoop.

Next, I’m creating a Levels adjustment Layer and tweaking the Green Channel to clear

up some of that color cast.

I’ll go ahead and correct all of the channels, so that when done the Histogram looks

something like this.

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The green in the shadows is still a bit dense, so by creating a Color Balance adjustment

layer and reducing the green (just a touch in this case seems to work), I can pull a bit

of the green out. I just love Adjustment layers.

Now to deal with some of the washed out color… let’s start with the eyes. My daughter

has the most striking blue eyes, but in this photo they appear almost gray.

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has the most striking blue eyes, but in this photo they appear almost gray.

First, I’ll create a layer at the top of the layer stack, and set my foreground color to

Black. With the Blending Mode of the layer set to Soft Light and painting over the irises

a bit, I can darken some of the washout caused by the flash.

Next I’ll create a new layer with the Blending Mode set to Color. I’ve chosen a blue as

the foreground that I think is a pretty close match for my daughter’s natural eye color,

and simply painted over the irises. Since I put a touch of black on just before this, the

eyes should not take on an eerie blue glow, but appear pretty close to her original color

and shine.

I’ll repeat the process above with her hair color also, only I won’t paint over it with Black

first… it appears pretty dark at the roots and in the shadows already.

To lighten those golden strands after adding the color, I’ll create a new layer set to Soft

Light and paint over the dark areas of her hair with White.

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Lastly, to take away any remaining green in the darker areas, I can use a Curve

Adjustment Layer and tweak the green channel to taste.

That was fairly simple, and it appears the image has cleaned up significantly.

Here’s the original again:

And the finished image:

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