sometimes with older photos
they become discolored depending on the environment there in
this photo was hanging on a wall had direct sunlight
for a couple hours a day for many years were going to try to do a couple
techniques to bring the color back into this photo and get rid of some of this red
be warned tho this is only
basic techniques and no matter what you do it's never gonna go back to its
original state
and these are just quick and easy techniques
you can get a little bit more complicated and get better results and
better color
but its going to take a lot longer than the two or three minutes
it's gonna take us for this photo so the first thing we're going to do is try out
Photoshops auto tone color and
and contrast commands to do that will go up to the Image menu
and choose auto tone and then choose
auto contrast and auto color
and it did a fairly good job it still has a little bit of a purple tint
but now we can see the purple velvet of the dress and yes
it was a very cool dress and then we see the white ruffles
and we're starting to see some green and pink from the background however what this did
was it
damage the original photo now your probably saying well that's okay because we don't
like the original photos that had too much red
but if you were to save this and then decide later
no I wanted adjust that again or try it again
well now you've just permanently change this original photo
we never want to do that in Photoshop so in the history
I'll go back to my first state with the red
in the photo and we're going to do something called adjustment layers
in these allow us to change the color without harming the original picture
so in the adjustments layer panel which
if you can see that panel got to window and choose
adjustments from here we're gonna choose the color balance adjustment
and it adds it as a layer on top of the original photo
and it's not harming that original photo but it will still change its color
we have a definite problem with the red color in this photo
so looking at these sliders if we have too much red
we need to balance that color out by adding its opposite
cyan and as you move that down to make a judgment on what looks good and what
doesn't
be aware that people are usually going to look at the face first
and so use a baby skin tone as a good judge
on whether or not you're going too far or not far enough
and if this one has a little bit to magenta
too much magenta we can add a little bit a green and then you can look if it
has little bit
too much yellow you can slide it in towards blue
and be aware that you can also change the shadows
and the highlights as well but mid tones is going to work for us for this picture
now if you want to refine in the color even more
you can do a color balance that's gonna make the background look really good
but when you do the color balance that makes that back on the good
its gonna a effect the face and the skin tone
and the dress of the baby here and it's not gonna look good in those areas
so we can always do is fine a mask technique tutorial and learn how to do
mask
on this color balance so that it only affects the foliage
then add another adjustment so that you can get the skin tone of her hand and her face
just right
add a mask to that and do the same thing for the dress
if you look at my YouTube channel there are mask tutorials up there
now what we can do is we can add other adjustment layers if we need to add some
brightness and contrast
and then we can turn the visibility
on an offer each of those layers to see if were liking whats happening
with our changes if we don't like him we can throw these adjustment layers away
and try again
and if we do like em make sure to say this is a Photoshop file so it keeps
those layers intact
which again it doesn't harm the original photo