Tea Clipper
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I mentioned in another thread that I like to use a target in my pictures and then crop them out. What I meant was, I like to use a gray card for color correction.
[All photos had to be resized and jpg quality reduced in order to meet the requirements of the forum, but I hope you get the idea.]
The original picture from the camera:
Loaded into Photoshop, note the gray card along the bottom:
Here, I've selected the area of the photo I want to keep and then used the Level control (CTRL+L) with the eye dropper to set the black, white, and midtone levels from the respective areas of the gray card:
Next, it is copied into a new window. I noticed that my little stand was visible so I would use the healing tool to erase it, but I'm lazy and didn't do it for this example:
The final result of using the gray card:
For more info, and better step-by-step info, please see this web page: http://www.digitalartsphotography.com/instructions.htm
I hope you enjoyed my little photo essay. I am by no means an expert on the subject, I just wanted to share my method. Enjoy! [8D]
[All photos had to be resized and jpg quality reduced in order to meet the requirements of the forum, but I hope you get the idea.]
The original picture from the camera:
Loaded into Photoshop, note the gray card along the bottom:
Here, I've selected the area of the photo I want to keep and then used the Level control (CTRL+L) with the eye dropper to set the black, white, and midtone levels from the respective areas of the gray card:
Next, it is copied into a new window. I noticed that my little stand was visible so I would use the healing tool to erase it, but I'm lazy and didn't do it for this example:
The final result of using the gray card:
For more info, and better step-by-step info, please see this web page: http://www.digitalartsphotography.com/instructions.htm
I hope you enjoyed my little photo essay. I am by no means an expert on the subject, I just wanted to share my method. Enjoy! [8D]