Color Casts and How to Remove Them

[Levina de Ruijter]

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Color Casts and How to Remove Them - How to get rid of color casts quick and easy in Photoshop

This short tutorial is not about white balance as that affects the whole image. This is about a local colour cast, most always caused by reflecting light off of a colour near the subject. Bird photographers will recognise this: a bird flying over a green field will sometimes show a green belly instead of the colour it should have. Or a bird in a blue sky that also takes on a tint of blue. Changing white balance will have no effect on colour casts. It needs to be removed locally. Here is how...

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[Levina de Ruijter]

Levina updated Color Casts and How to Remove Them with a new update entry:

Here's how to correct a colour cast on an entire bird

A bird in the sky can sometimes take on a shade of blue so then you have to correct the entire bird. You can correct it in the same way as a partial colour cast. So:

1. Take your image to Photoshop;
2. Select the bird and jump it to its separate layer (cntrl or cmnd J);
3. Open the fx menu and change the blending mode to Color Overlay;
4. Reduce opacity to 0% and click the rectangle to open the Color Picker;
5. Sample the correct colour and click OK;
6. Set the blending mode...

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