Scops Owl

Just fix the color cast and these will be great.

Here's a couple. Of course there is a degree of green still in the pictures, but I think having applied the colour cast fix in PSE the results are much better...(although I think Martin got a better result than I managed!!)







Hope you like them

Regards

Mat

The images are great, but are still too green I am afraid.

Back to the drawing board... Oh well. I think I shall give my eyes a rest and try again tomorrow

Mat

I had a try in PS, used colour balanced and moved the magenta/green toward the magenta and the yellow/blue toward the blue. There may be a better way and I believe in Elements there is a fix it quick button.

You can get a good result using hew & saturation as well. good luck tomorrow.

They're better than they were though! I had a quick go at one of them and I must admit I don't quite get the same results as Martin. What I did, was: I opened the picture in PSE, went to Enhance - Adjust Lighting - Levels, clicked on the thingy (what's its name again?? :roll to set the white point, clicked a part that's supposed to be white in the picture and then OK. The result is very much like yours, which is still not quite right. I'm sure Martin will tell you exactly what he did if you ask him.

Using elements I did the following:
Go to: Enhance (see top arrow)----->adjust colour------>remove colour cast.

Than...with the eyedropper click on a area that should be either black, grey or white. In the screen shot I marked the used area in that case.
Sometimes choosing a other colour works better.

HTH,

Hi Lidy,
Opening levels and setting the black and white point is the way to get a good closed down histogram without gaps and thereby optimizing the tonal values of a picture. But......It doesn't do anything to correct colour casts. It only makes the cast lighter or darker.

Eyedropper .... that's the word I was looking for and had temporarily lost!

Thanks, Martin! I knew you'd come to the rescue! Tried the colour cast method and it works fine. Learnt something again.

Martin, Lidy, (everyone!), Many thanks. The remove colour cast control with the eyedropper was what I was using, although it didn't yield quite the same result as Martin managed (which is excellent). I am guessing that the artistry is in putting the eyedropper precisely onto a pixel which is definitively white, black, or grey. I think that when I did it previously, it yielded such a step change in the colour that it looked as if the pictures were fixed, although I can see now that there is still a bit of green in them. Having tried a couple of further times, the cast does change when I apply the eyedropper to different pixels which on the face of it appear to be white or black, but which are maybe not quite pure white or black (?), and that I get slightly different results when I pick a white area as opposed to a black. So I think I can see how I can 'properly' fix them, but I shall need to have a bit of a play to absolutely get to a final result which definitively removes the colour cast (when I get in from work tonight).

That said, this has been a really useful thread for me as I have (I hope - time will tell:shock learned a good deal from it from you guys, and I hope I shall ultimately end up with a non-colour-casted set of Owl photos!

Many thanks again

Mat