From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes
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Removing color cast with Auto Curves - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes
Removing color cast with Auto Curves
- Most advanced users skip the Auto command. And I admit, in the past, Auto wasn't nearly as useful. But hidden within Auto are multiple methods for automatically analyzing and solving problems. One of those problems is color cast. And an adjustment layer with Auto curves has the ability to fix all sorts of color cast issues automatically for you instantly and accurately. Now, this image is a little bit of a color cast. It's not bad, but it's a tad green and it just doesn't have the richness that I'd like. Now, you could, of course, go after this manually, adding a Curves adjustment, and then switching to each channel. For example, if I pull the red up or down, you see how I can start to balance that image out. But it does get a little bit tricky. One of the things I like to suggest is to hold down the Option key or Alt key here and click on the word Auto. This is going to bring up a new dialog and what I want you to look at is this option called Enhance Per Channel Contrast, or…
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