■ Hue/Saturation.Choose Image, Adjust, Hue/Saturation to balance severe
color casts.Too much red appears in the midtones, so the Color Balance tool is used to shift red
to cyan (red’s opposite on the color wheel), as follows:- Evaluate the color saturation (see Figure 10.20). Use Image, Adjust,
Hue/Saturation if the saturation is excessive or insufficient.
Color Balance 101
Color images often need color correction. For example, someone’s shirt might be too
bright, or even the wrong color because of incorrect lighting (tungsten when it
should have been strobe, fluorescent when you should have used sodium, and so
forth). To fix these problems, try the following techniques.
Open your test image if you closed it. Evaluate the color balance. Three basic com-
mands are used to improve color balance:
■ Histograms. Use the histograms of the individual color channels (Image,
Adjust, Levels) to balance colors.
■ Color Balance. Choose Image, Adjust, Color Balance to balance serious
color casts (see Figure 10.19).148 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
FIGURE 10.19
Adjusting color
using Color
Balance.