Color Casts — A Few Solutions
Color casts are the dread of every photographer. You can try your best, but frequently there will be a cast from the leave to the grass to the shirt of the person next to them that show up on a client’s face.
Fixing these issues are one of the hallmarks of a great photographer, but the take time. In addition each case is different as each client’s skin type and the color of the cast will be different. Recently though, Jodi of MCP Actions created two product that will dramatically cut down on yuor processing time for color casts. They are a color fixing workshop and a color fixing set of actions.
I first took her workshop a year ago, and though I knew the basics of color correction this workshop opened my eyes to tools and tricks I had not thought to try before. This is a great starting place for understanding color correction and how to fix the issues associated with color problems.
To go along with her workshop she just released a new set of actions MCP’s Bag of Tricks and I was lucky enough to be asked to test them out and give her a bit of feedback. Well, just like all things she does, they are amazing. Her actions (all of them not just Bag of Tricks) work by creating editable layers on each image. I love that they truly do give you control over what you are doing so that it’s really not a one size fits all.
I found them very helpful for a recent session where the wind and cool day made for very rosy checks and faces. I used her sunburn action (I know who would have thought ) but it worked wonders on the image below! MCP is a sponsor here at Beyond Just Images, so please check out her blog and actions! It’s worth the trip.
Until the next time!
Shannon
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