Hi Retouching gurus The church ceiling in the attached photo was obviously lit by 2 light sources of different colour, causing a blue cast at one end of the picture. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me with a method to get a white background overall. I have Photoshop CS2 but I'm a new user. I can deal with straightening it on my own! Many thanks, Larry
Larry was there alot of red and gold I fiddled with it , but think I am off on those colors not sure.. Peano where are you :>)) Chicken lady calling:>)))
I don't have a calibrated system here at work, but this is a prime example for the removal of color cast via Lab mode in Photoshop.
Here is another way to retouch this image. It basically involved selective: color desaturation, burn/dodge of shadow-mid-highlights, color replacement via painting, sharpening, Original Retouch open hue/sat menu and select blue in drop down menu. Next click eyedropper on blue cast shown with the asterisk desaturate the blue background rendering it a monotone grey next select your dodge tool and choose highlights Do a dodging of the background area you want to lighten use magic wand to select the monotone area you want to add color. Then use the select similar function in the select menu. Use eyedropper to select a gold tone from your image Select a paintbrush with a 3 -7 opacity and paint over the monotone areas. Then finish your retouch with selective burn dodge saturation sharpen. Regards RFC
Many thanks to Gale, Jeremy, Iliah and Robert for replying. Robert, I'm amazed at the detail you took the time to provide. It's just what I need, given my level of experience with Photoshop. I'll give it a go and let you know how it turns out. Cheers, Larry
Larry you never said how much red and yellow(gold) is in the actual For my own curiosity to see how close I got. You were there not me:>)))
Hi Gale My monitor isn't calibrated so I don't really know how to answer. I think if you look at the gold and red in the area with the white background colour in the original I posted, you won't be too far off. I think the reds have probably faded from when they were applied about 300 years ago! Cheers, Larry
