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Questions tagged [color-correction]

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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Adjusting white balance in GIMP using grey card and white card

I am photographing my artwork (paintings primarily) in order to create giclee prints. I'm doing this in a light tight studio with some LED daylight lights, and also including a grey card and a white ...
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Can I easily and automatically fix contrast and color on a 35mm scan that contains sprocket holes?

I often prefer to scan film including the sprocket holes, especially when the image bleeds over the perforations a little bit, as in this example: The raw results from the scanner are usually very ...
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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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How can I correct for GND color cast between filtered and unfiltered areas, in post?

From How to Correct GND Filter Effects in Photoshop for Consistent Exposure and Color? in the /r/photography subreddit: I have captured an image using a GND filter, which has resulted in noticeable ...
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Is there a software which can compare printer color profiles (not only gamma but color mapping)

I have a Canon Pro 10s Photo Printer and recently printed some photos on the Canon Plus Semi-gloss (SG-201) paper using the printer profiles included with the driver (my screen is calibrated using a ...
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Selecting lens filters based on ICC or DCP profiles

I have a shoebox full of very old 120 film and I'm experimenting around with it. I want to try to compensate the color shift with lens filters and see what the result is. I have made a few shots of a ...
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It is necessary to create your own profile for camera in product photography?

I'm trying to understand how necessary are the camera profiles (own) in a commercial shoot/product photography. I photograph clothes on a white background on a model (to make it clearer, something ...
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How to remove orange mask from negatives scanned without transparency adapter?

I'm trying to create really quick, low-quality scans of sheets of sleeved color negatives for my electronic catalog. I am not trying to scan negatives in the proper sense (i.e. to actually produce ...
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How can I edit pictures of people that have vitiligo?

It's a question about photo editing : What would be a trick to reduce the visibility of the white stains of the skin due to "vitiligo" (Vitiligo is a strange illness(?) that make the skin been totally ...
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How do I reduce color bending on hair when changing clothing color beneath via Hue?

I'm using Hue/Saturation to change the color of the clothes but whenever I encounter long hair on clothes I get into trouble with the color bending on the edges of the hair. Its a mix of purple and ...
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Gimp's color options not working

I'm trying to edit the color balance of a layer in a .xcf image, and none of the color commands do anything. For example, I can crank saturation and value to 0 in Hue-Saturation, or invert values, and ...
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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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Can physical color filter and light pollution filters on DLSRs achieve anything that can't be done in post (like with Photoshop)?

The color filter was said to be not quite useful in the digital photography. A light pollution filter, i.e. a broad band filter, was proven to be useful in photography in reducing the light pollution ...
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Lightroom LUT profiles based correct (best quality) workflow?

LUTs are a great tool as a base for colour grading, and I often use them. But since I also got into movie editing a bit, one thing worries me in the Lightroom imposed order of operations. (Fixed order ...
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Why do skin tones become yellower / oranger when the flash is on?

When I take pictures of people, the yellow and red tones seem to be enhanced and the result is a more jaundiced complexion in best case scenario and orange and a bit shiny if their skin is a bit oily. ...

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