Color Balance?

Neil_117

I recently shot a sequence of photos for stitching into a panorama, however, the color balance changed on the last shot. This is very noticeable in the final stitch.

What the best way to color balance the scene with CS2 / CS3?

The scene consist of 6 photos of which 5 have a cold slightly blue cast to them in the mid-tones and shadows, the last photo being too warm overall.

Neil

BinaryFx

Neil, first I would try (presuming non raw camera files):

i) Photoshop's Match Colour image adjustment command

ii) Matching the RGB values for shadow, highlight and other key tones (using the curve eyedroppers and or manual tweaks to each separate channel via curves and fixed samplers/info palette readings)

iii) The above two methods are probably best combined with visual matching

iv) In the overlap region, one can clone in color blend mode to "even out" the seam/transition

There are many approaches, it really depends on the images and whether how much colour and luminosity difference there are between the shots.


Hope this helps,

Stephen Marsh

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Neil_117

Fuji Crater - Panorama
Here's the finished, fully adjusted panorama.

The match colour function in CS3 worked very well once I had adjusted the highlights which were also causing a few issues.

As a final step I have applied a 81A warm up filter with 40% opacity over the image.

Thanks for the advise Neil

Duffy Pratt

The yellow and black things in the bottom corners are very distracting. Otherwise, it looks good to me.

Duffy

Neil_117

Duffy Pratt wrote:

The yellow and black things in the bottom corners are very distracting. Otherwise, it looks good to me.

Duffy

Agree, its funny what you keep in the photo because its in your memory! However, you are right it adds nothing to the scene, will up date shortly

Neil