Color Fix Express

Got this hint from the NAPP DVD 7 along with my next year NAPP memebership "early renewal"
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If you are pressed for time and want to fix colors *F*A*S*T* one of the ways to do it is to use Image|Adjustments|Match Color... dialog and check its Neutralize checkbox. You can also play with other options, Fade being the most important, but the default set "100 | 100 | 0" is also OK. The whole thing takes less than 2 seconds, and if you like it, you can create an action and assign a shortcut to it, so it will take even less...:wink
As always with Photoshop, there are many other ways to do a color fix, and nothing would work 100% in 100% of cases, but this is one really quick and quite potent tool.
HTH

If you are pressed for time and want to fix colors *F*A*S*T* one of the ways to do it is to use Image|Adjustments|Match Color... dialog and check its Neutralize checkbox. You can also play with other options, Fade being the most important, but the default set "100 | 100 | 0" is also OK. The whole thing takes less than 2 seconds, and if you like it, you can create an action and assign a shortcut to it, so it will take even less...:wink
As always with Photoshop, there are many other ways to do a color fix, and nothing would work 100% in 100% of cases, but this is one really quick and quite potent tool.
HTH
"May the f/stop be with you!"
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"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
I think I'm gonna incorporate it as one of my regular steps when doing Image Processing from CR2s to JPGs...
Glad you liked it:-)
Cheers!
After some initial tests, I do get better results manually deciding on a color filter (warm/cool) to apply, and better still dialing in the right WB adjustment in RAW, but if there is no way or desire to do it manually, this looks like a good way to automate the process.
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
It's not a replacement for a toughtful manual color correction, but as a "bang for the buck" I think it can hold its candle:-)
That it's NOT good for the sunrise/sunset pictures, since they DO have a very distinctive cast and you want to keep it.
However, it does a pretty good job for usually inferior "interior" pictures when you have a had-to-fix mix of luminescent/tungsten/flash.
Again, not a panacea, but a cheap over-the-counter one-size-fits-all microwaveable solution...:):