Coloring Digital Camera Photographs Tips

Now let’s move on to the color balance’ box. Here you can see the color wheel in action. The three sliders show the opposing colors at each end. Look carefully at your picture, decide which color you need to decrease and adjust the appropriate slide. The hard part is deciding which color you need to get rid of, I have a lot of trouble deciding between cyan and green, also between green and yellow. Try different sliders to see whether the color cast is disappearing and to see whether you are introducing a new, different color cast. If too much of the new color is appearing before you have got rid of the color cast you are trying to get rid of, then you have got the wrong color I realize that the last sentence may be a bit hard to follow so here’s an illustration, this is by far the best window for adjusting the color of photographs. Unlike some of the other windows for adjusting color, like the ‘hue saturation’ window, this one is quite subtle in it’s effect and, unlike the ‘variations’ window, you can preview the effect on the actual picture itself, First let’s talk about the ‘tone balance’ box at the bottom. You’ll find that most of the time you can leave the radio button set to ‘mid-tones’ for best results, unless you are dealing with very difficult lighting. Keep the ‘preserve luminosity’ ticked to stop the picture getting darker or lighter as you change the color.

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