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Monday, December 17, 2012

RE: [photoshop-beginners] Create a grey card in Photoshop



Here is probably the fastest, with the least effort, method I have come across for dealing with color casts:

# With the image open duplicate the background and make the duplicate layer the active layer.

 

# Go Filter > Blur > Average. This filter averages all the color in the image and changes the image to show this averaged color. This color should be a neutral gray. To make it neutral,

 

# Add a Levels Adjustment layer.

 

# Click in the image with the middle eyedropper, the midtone eyedropper.

 

# This adjusts the tones on this layer to neutral gray. Click OK

 

# In the Layers palette click the eye next to the background copy layer (now adjusted to be gray) to turn if off or hide it.

 

# The Levels adjustment layers adjusts all layers under it so the adjustments you set to neutralize the background copy layer will be applied to the background, effectively neutralizing the midtones.

 

# The image should now look color correct.

 

This method was presented by Tim Grey, he had an earlier method that took a few more steps.

 

JohnW

 

 

From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Clayton Swatzell
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 3:57 PM
To: Clayton Swatzell
Subject: [photoshop-beginners] Create a grey card in Photoshop

 




I have put together a short tutorial on creating a ‘grey card’ in Photoshop.  This will allow you to set a custom grey point (correct a colorcast). 

 

http://photorambling.cswatzell.com/create-a-grey-card-in-photoshop/

 

 

Clay Swatzell

www.cswatzell.com

 

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

– Vincent Van Gogh

 






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