Hey everyone, I've got some images that I'm "helping" a friend with and realized quickly that my abilities fall short in PS. The images are all jpgs shot in doors with tungsten lights and wow did the people turn out orange. Can anyone recommend an action or some tricks they've got down on this? I've been constantly messing with the things in Image>Adjustments area. But man I suck at this. Any help?

In Lightroom I pull the saturation of the Orange down. Usually there is not too much orange in the rest of the photo to be affected.

In Photoshop I go to Hue/Saturation (I use the little button for the Image adjustments in the layers box so Im not sure where this is on the menu at the top) and pull the reds and the yellows (you have to choose the colors from the drop down menu at the top of this window) down until the area I am trying to "un-orange" is to my taste. Then I add a layer mask, delete the area to black and then paint the orange-y areas with a paintbrush set to white. I usually always have the opacity and the fill set low, like around 30%.

The second one takes a few minutes per image but it will let you bring down the orange in a selected area...so that the rest of the image is not affected.

Let me know if you have any questions! And my way is probably not the only way to do it...I am sure there are easier or faster ways but this is all I know so far! : )

Mark, have you tried going in a playing with the hue/saturation and color balance sliders in Lightroom? Try taking them into lightroom and pulling down on the orange sliders a touch, and then play around with the contrast a bit after you do that. I shoot under tungsten lighting quite a bit, and have to pull tehorage every once in awhile.

It might work?




oops! I guess Teresa and I were posting at the same time!

You can try to set the white balance in Photoshop. Create a curves layer, select the middle eyedropper and click on a neutral gray area. You can always mask the areas you don't want affected.

Scott

Ok you guys, I'm gonna go try some of those things. I don't have LR DON'T CALL ME NAMES! I know how far I am behind the times. HEY! STOP MAKING FUN OF ME. I heard you. So I gotta keep at this in Photoshop CS YES CS! GOSH!

I don't have LR either
Use Curves - ctrl-M and play around with the red channel - little adjustments go a long way.
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Mark, you can try, in the PS Hue/Saturation box, choose reds, but then use the eyedropper and click on their orange faces, then drag down the saturation, and adjust the hue slider to taste.

Boutwell's cool as a cucumber works well for me. Sometimes I have to run it twice.

But a bump on the shutter speed (for flash shots) usually does the trick (ixnay on the ambient lighting!). Some cameras and some overly tungsten rooms just seem to LOVE the tangerine effect...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Image>Adjustments>Photo Filter in Photoshop. Choose a cooling filter, play with the density slider, and you'll be amazed at how well you can do. You'll probably have to use that in conjunction with some of the other options mentioned above, but it can be very helpful.

Well, if I had shot this I'd have shot it in RAW and this wouldn't be an issue, at least not that I've ever seen. Thanks you guys, I'll give these a shot.

You can also just do a curves layer and bump the blue channel a bit...then paint back the original layer on the subject with an appropriate opacity setting. (I think I've just described how to create the Boutwell action I mentioned previously...shhhhhhh...)