Basic Photoshop help

[MsSage]

I know some of yall can help me PLEASE........ I have a full moon icture next to a snow covered mountiian but I took it with a UV filter on and it turned it a yellowish....eeekkk
How do I get it back to its beautiful white????
THANKS for yalls help

[Dobick]

As far as I know, there are a lot of ways to accomplish this, but I guess I would want to make certain that I understand one thing first: Did the whole picture turn yellow, or just the moon?

If it is just the moon, then you would want to create a new layer, using probably the color correction layer, and then using the eraser, erase everything from that layer, except the moon, and then adjust the color to where it is white again. And then, for a more natural appearance, you might want to dial back the opacity of the layer to 75 or 80%. You could also accomplish the same results by using a hue and saturation layer, and desaturating the moon only, thereby taking the color out of it.

[Rolland]

If it is an overall yellow color balance, one way to do a simple balance change is to go to Image on the menu, click on Image, on the drop down menu click adjustments. On that menu click on color balance. Now move the yellow-blue slider until you like the color balance, click ok and then save your photograph.
I find that it is a good idea to make a copy of your origional file and work on that copy.

[MsSage]

ok maybe I am not asking the right question or uuggg LOL
Here is the photo so you can see what I am talking about, this is from photobucket so it has been sized down. I have tried the color adjustment but I must not be doing it right

[Dobick]

I made 2 quick edits -- one in photoshop, and one in lightroom.

My personal preference is the lightroom one, but that is because I like the controls better in that.

Let me know what you think. The edits weren't difficult.

If you had this in raw, it would be very easy to do.

Photoshop edit.


lightroom edit

[Dobick]

Originally Posted by MsSage

ok maybe I am not asking the right question or uuggg LOL
Here is the photo so you can see what I am talking about, this is from photobucket so it has been sized down. I have tried the color adjustment but I must not be doing it right

For my edits above -- on the photoshop version, all I really did was a color balance layer.

I primarily bumped the yellow/blue slider to the blue about +35 to +50 on all three shadow midpoint and highlight, bumped the magenta/green to the magenta about -5 to -10 to the magenta, and bumped the cyan/red -15 to -20 towards the cyan.

Then I changed the opacity of the layer to around 80% because those settings were a bit strong.

I also adjusted the brightness and the contrast a small bit, and I did a levels layer as well, but those did not change the color temperture at all.

On the light room one, I literally just dialed the color balance from a click custom, on the mountainside, and it made it very very cool (almost cold colored)

I hope this was the direction you were looking for, and if not, I will remove the edits immediately.

[Disney Chick]

Here's my version, done is PSE 5.

[Gabby498]

Another attempt done in Capture NX. Used white point in levels on lightest snow. Used U-point to correct for cyan in sky, green in moon and contrast on closest sloops.

[KdLaneJr]

Here's my take on it(CS2). Set wp and bp using threshold, removed yellow hues from the mountains in a HSB layer, sharpened twice using an Lab offshoot with a layer mask to keep from sharpening the sky. Flattened, saved. It could use some more work, but this looks reasonable to me.

[Duffy Pratt]

Here's my take. I wrote a set of RGB curves. I used the lightest part of the snow as a "white point', setting R and G at about 225, and pushing the blue up a little higher to 230. I did this because I think snow should have a bluish tinge, especially with this blue a sky. For the black point I picked the darkest trees on the left.

Then I converted to LAB. I wrote another set of curves to increase the contrast in the moon itself, and in the trees. I cheated by pulling some contrast out of the sky. And I steepened the A and B curves to drive colors apart some. I then did a shadow/highlights adjustment on the L channel to try to accentuate the detail in the moon itself (highlights), and to bring some detail out in the foreground (shadow). Sharpened with smart sharpen.

Duffy

[Duffy Pratt]

And here's the same edit, with a little playing around with Selective Color to deepen and darken the Cyan in the sky.

[Dobick]

Just goes to show how much I don't know. Mine looks like crap. Duffy, I am liking what you did. I hope the original poster does too.

[rltaylor4]

Here is my go at it in Lightroom.

[bcskeens]

Here is what I came up with:

oops, I was going to post my picture here, but I couldn't figure out how to add the pic. If someone will tell me I would appreciate it. I hit add image icon and it asks for a url. I tried typing in the location on my C: drive, but that didn't work.

[Duffy Pratt]

Christy:

If you don't have a website hosting your pictures, you need to upload them to TPF. At the bottom of the page there is a "Go Advanced" button. Click it. It will bring up some additional options. You want to click on Manage Attachements. That will bring up a pop-up window that will allow you to upload the picture from your drive.

In the pop up window, click on Choose File, then pick the file you want to upload. When you have that file selected, click on the Upload button. There are limits on how big a file you can post. For .jpg it looks like the maximum file size is 293 KB, and the maximum dimension, either horizontal or vertical, is 900 pixels. You might need to change the dimensions of a file, or change the jpg compression, to meet these limits.

Duffy