Shadows correction

tdorsch

• June 10, 2013 19:45

I want to correct shadows in outdoor-images. They are darker and blue, if I set the white balance to the greater daylight-parts in the image.How can I correct it? The partial-correction with layers in the color-editor isn*t usefull, because the shadows probably differs in the color. Is there no possibility to take a partial mask with gradationcurves, darker and bluecurve minus?

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  Steven48

  • June 10, 2013 23:53

  Sounds like what you want to do is selectively apply white balance corrections to the shadow areas. Unfortunately C1 doesn't allow that type of adjustment yet (hopefully is coming real soon). Your going to need to go to PS to fix that. Or process it in LR, being that you can selectively apply WB with the adjustment brush there.

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  SFA

  • June 11, 2013 01:08

  You may be able to select for blue (or multiple shades of blue if necessary) and then desaturate to your preferences in the Advanced colour management tool. The success or otherwise of the approach might vary by image - but then it will anyway.
  
  It may be easier sometimes to apply the desaturation to the entire image using an inverted local adjustment mask (start with no mask and invert) and then erase the mask where it provides undesired effects that are especially obvious.
  
  If the image has a lot of genuine blue spread around that would be affected by such an approach you could consider just applying the local adjustment where needed - but using the same desaturation concept rather than trying to change the colour.
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant Perkins

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