Dumb Color Adjustment Question

[SonicMax]

People,

Had a simple task to do for a relative, which was to scan an old photo, make some minor repairs to the image, print it; & have it framed.

It was kinda' small, so I didn't notice at first...but when I scanned it in & checked it out on my monitor in Photoshop, the subject had green hair (the photo was shot at some event; & I guess the DJ had weird lighting going on...I don't know.)

All other aspects of the photo are otherwise normal. So my question is: Is there any way to adjust only the affected areas. Is there some way to isolate only the hair on the subject, so as to correct the tint?

Thanks,

SonicMax

 

[kiddpete]

Sure, select the area you want to adjust (the lassoo and other tools can select), then, with that area selected, perform the adjustment. Only the slected area will be adjusted.

 

[dimoj]

There are many, many ways to approach this. What you want to do is really the fundamental objective of the Photoshop program, so YES it is definately possible!

Basically you need to isolate the hair by one of many methods:

For example:
Use the lasso to select it
Duplicate photo to a new layer and delete everything but hair...

Or other ways!!!

So once you have the hair 'isolated' again you have many choices to correct the colour:

Adjust Hue/Saturation
Adjust Colour Balance
Use Photo Filters (PSCS)

There are umpteen ways to do it all! It's not an easy question to answer because different things will look good on an image by image basis.

Experiment with all methods is my best suggestion!

 

[mscallisto]

See my post (and others) at thread229-704933

Filter > Extract sometimes work but as DIMOJ mentions there are many ways, it all depends on the particular picture.

1 Save your original.
2 Experiment

 

[prophotodx]

Your problem sounds more like a screen calibration problem like I had than a problem to be fixed within the photo...try re-running Adobe Gamma, or delete your prefs file like it says in some of the other posts...make sure to let us know what happens!!

http://www.doublexpressions.com

 

[SonicMax]

Hey...

Thanks everybody (forgot to check back in...sorry.)

Will explore all avenues & get back.

Thanks again,

Sonicmax

 

[SonicMax]

Gang,

Wound up having two major corrections in the retouch. The first (the green hair), I eliminated with the Sponge tool (primarily because in the destaurating process, it moved the hair tone toward grayscale, which was perfect for the subject.)

For the second, which was an overly yellow area on flesh tone, I went with Selective Color, set to Yellow; & then backed off the % on the Yellow slider.

Worked out great.

Thanks again,

SonicMax