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h_sedghi Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 63 W: 13 N: 12] (421)
central desert of Iran

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h_sedghi Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 63 W: 13 N: 12] (421)
Blue/cyan color-cast removal
Edited by:delfi Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 30 W: 35 N: 7] (90)

Hi Hamid, how's it going? I tried a workshop on your picture.

Edits:

Color-balance: B-channel attenuated, R-channel boosted, G-channel slight adjustment; weighted balancing on B/C-levels; sharpened; sky despeckled, & clouds top left cloned-out.

Note:

The original seems to have a Blue/Cyan cast: daylight photos that look like they were shot at night. This probably is a Whitebalance issue for that particular situation. If the photo looks too blue, then the Whitebalance should have been initially set at a higher Kelvin-temperature.

(Or change it later with RAW-development).

This is what the photos from my Digimax 210se looked like when I took it to the dunes, so I recognized the problem: improper Whitebalance.

By adjusting color-balance (& B/C-levels) this can be corrected in post-processing: looks simple but really isn't, first step is knowing what's wrong here, and how to correct it by experience.

I hope you like it.

Best regards, Dimitri.

df, December 11, 2005/ 3:00PM