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The process of making an image appear natural to the eye, either by changing the lighting or by changing the white balance or tint of an image after the fact.

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how to bring out the blue in a photo

typical villages in Greece or in Portugal have a lot of blue and white in their building’s facades, plus the blue from the sea. How can I enhance the blue and make sure that the blue is dominant, just ...
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Confused with my monitor Picture Modes

I've recently bought my first "Designer Monitor", Benq PD2500Q (yeah I know it's probably still shit for professionals, but for me it's the first 'better' monitor). I'm very impressed by it ...
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How to match color range in two photos when colorizing (hue, saturation)?

Consider two outdoors photos taken with different cameras and different cities. You want to include both in the same photo series and therefore need to re-touch them with identical color profiles and ...
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How to prevent colour noise from developing in water portion of the image?

I have developed enough post processing skill in over an year to create moods in my photos as I prefer (mainly dark moody photos with low saturation). However, when it comes to showing drama in the ...
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Image Color Scheme getting faded when opening with MSPaint

I have the following image (have put a screen-grab of the image as its size is more than 2 MB - the original can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rC2QQBzMhZ8AG5Lp5PyrpkOxwlyP9QaE/...
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Wall colors varying wildly during the same shoot [duplicate]

I took photos at a wedding reception. The event took place in a room where two adjacent walls were interior walls with no windows, and the other two walls faced the exterior of the building and let in ...
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Capturing then printing color-accurate images

I want to take photos of a few surfaces (wood floors, bricks, etc.) then print them, matching the colors of the actual object (in whatever the lighting conditions are at the moment) as closely as I am ...
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How do I remove reflections from a bald-headed subject in post?

I was asked to take photos at night and this lovely guy had an unfortunate purple/blue light reflecting from the top of his head. How can I edit this please to remove the colour cast?
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why my image (exported as sRGB, 8bit) looks color washed and pixeled after instagram upload

I uploaded this images on Instagram using color space sRGB, 8 bit (as recommended) . Size: long edge: 2160 px. The original images wasn't this color pixaleted (notice faint magenta bar running from ...
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DigiKam vs. LibRaw command Output Discrepancy

Recently I have stumbled upon digiKam software which internally uses LibRaw library as a raw conversion engine. I have tried to convert one of the images I have using digiKam with all conversion ...
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Why does a green product that's been color corrected (with color checker passport) look blue and how do I fix it?

I'm a freelancer hired to edit product photos. The company mailed the products to me so that I can ensure that the color of the products match what they look like in real life. I do have some ...
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Will a CTO (or CTB) Gel improve the CRI of a light source

Can Color Temperature Orange (CTO) gels be used to improve the Color Rendering Index (CRI) of a light source with a mediocre CRI? For example can a CTO gel improve the CRI of a “tungsten balanced” LED ...
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Why color-wheel websites (Adobe...) claim these colors are complementary

I just learn about the different color harmony styles models, and I was playing with Adobe color wheel website using the complementary style, but I'm realizing that the proposed colors are not really ...
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Confused about D50/D65 conversion going from Lab to sRGB color spaces

I am writing code for some color conversion work and have a confusion. My purpose for this conversion is to get the colors look reasonably correct in a typical non-professional display (PC, tablet etc)...
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Effect of assigning an ICC color profile at different stages

What is the difference between applying/assigning an ICC color profile to an image for color correction During opening and processing the raw image in some studio software (e.g. Lightroom, CaptureOne)...
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